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Is this fungus or somthing else?
Answered by
Alan Rockoff, MD - dermatology, Child Skin Problems
The Rockoff Dermatology Center
Brookline - MA
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Is this fungus or somthing else?
by Gee154, Apr 07, 2007 12:00AM
HI,
I did a stupid thing. My wife was away for a month. , I wore a dirty sock on my penis and masturbated twice... few days after , my penis starts hitching. I noticed white dryness on my penis. I did not pay much attention. My wife came back and I noticed that after having intercourse with her my penis has a little cut before tip, which turned to a little black round shape patch and it was start growing. Now I have three black patch one on my penis tip.
i want to mention one more thing, i did not have sex with any one except my wife.
I am assuming probably my wife has a yeast infection and I got from her or I gave to her. I don’t know.
I went to a doctor. he look at it, and gave anti fungus cream(Exelderm sulconazole nitrate) I used that cream for three weeks, but it did not work.
I went to emergency ward a physician look at it. He said it looks like a viral infection and gave me an anti viral cream Zovirax(ointment), I used that cream for five days as he prescribed, but it did not work.
He said if this cream did not work go to dermatologist. Recently I lost my job and medical insurance I can’t afford to have expansive skin tests.
It is four months now the black patch still there. I don’t know what should I do?
Doctor's Answer
by Alan Rockoff, MD, Apr 08, 2007 12:00AM
, Apr 08, 2007 12:00AM
Your rash doesn't sound like either a fungus or a virus, which is why I think that neither cream you were given worked. You probably just have irritation plus pigment change in the kin that lasts for a whiloe after the irritation goes away. The sock irritated you--it didn't give you a fungus. My advice: apply over-the-counter 1% hydrocortisone cream twice a mday for 3 days, use nothinjg else but moisture lotion, and forget about it. No need to limt any activities, sexual or otherwise.
Take care.
Dr. Rockoff
Take care.
Dr. Rockoff
i use to be a topographer in my coutry and all the work use to be outdoor in the fields and sinse than i started having some white spots on my skin starting from my uper back to my arms and my neck.... after that it start jumping from one spot area of my body to another so i when to a dermatolog and he priscribe a liquid (body wash) to use after shower for 15 minutes and than washed off.it's started working for a couple months but after that it became so bad the spots wher still exsisting till this moment whitch has been almost 10 years or more. i could'nt go to any dermatolog after that cause i don't have insurance and i still have the spots on my armes and my belly at this moment plus it turns red color and start itching when i swet or if i don't shower like during my day off.
also conserning my wife,she start having some small spots appearing on her body same as it started on mine.
please tell me what to do cause i feel realy embarassed mostly during sommer time when i go to the sweeming pool and every one is getting away from where i am affraid of infection.
please help me .