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Could this be herpes?
About 8 months ago I began a sexual relationship which lasted for about 3 months.
About 2 months in, I developed symptoms of a UTI and was prescribed Triprim by a doctor who also tested me for chlamydia and gonorrhea which came up negative.
The relationship ended when he sexually assaulted me and I ended up with a vaginal tear at the base of my vagina which then took a couple of months to heal properly, as it kept opening up again after healing every week or so.
After the relationship ended, I began to notice intense itching and burning around my vagina, which made the pain of my tear worse. The itching was not localized to any particular spot, it ranges from as high as my pubic bone at the front down to my tear on both sides.
After a couple of weeks, I noticed that I had some skin missing from the sides of my vulva, which hurt the same as the tear, but they were gone within 1-2 days. I experienced thick white vaginal discharge and also what appears to be an eczema looking rash on the inside of my thighs where they rub together or on my clothes.
The symptoms subsided somewhat when I got my period, which I don't get often because I have the birth control implant. But they started again immediately after my period.
It is now 6 months since the last sexual encounter with this person and I am still experiencing the itching. It gets better sometimes but hasn't really ever gone away. And just last week I checked myself with a mirror and I noticed what looks to be something similar to an ulcer around my urethral opening. Sort of like ulcer shaped but not open, it kind of just looks like patches of paler flesh surrounded by redness. It doesn't hurt to touch and I have no symptoms there, only the vulval itching around the outside. I'm terrified that the ulcer could mean that all of the other symptoms point to herpes. And I have researched it and there doesn't seem to be any other explanation for the ulcer looking thing.
Does this sound like herpes?
About 2 months in, I developed symptoms of a UTI and was prescribed Triprim by a doctor who also tested me for chlamydia and gonorrhea which came up negative.
The relationship ended when he sexually assaulted me and I ended up with a vaginal tear at the base of my vagina which then took a couple of months to heal properly, as it kept opening up again after healing every week or so.
After the relationship ended, I began to notice intense itching and burning around my vagina, which made the pain of my tear worse. The itching was not localized to any particular spot, it ranges from as high as my pubic bone at the front down to my tear on both sides.
After a couple of weeks, I noticed that I had some skin missing from the sides of my vulva, which hurt the same as the tear, but they were gone within 1-2 days. I experienced thick white vaginal discharge and also what appears to be an eczema looking rash on the inside of my thighs where they rub together or on my clothes.
The symptoms subsided somewhat when I got my period, which I don't get often because I have the birth control implant. But they started again immediately after my period.
It is now 6 months since the last sexual encounter with this person and I am still experiencing the itching. It gets better sometimes but hasn't really ever gone away. And just last week I checked myself with a mirror and I noticed what looks to be something similar to an ulcer around my urethral opening. Sort of like ulcer shaped but not open, it kind of just looks like patches of paler flesh surrounded by redness. It doesn't hurt to touch and I have no symptoms there, only the vulval itching around the outside. I'm terrified that the ulcer could mean that all of the other symptoms point to herpes. And I have researched it and there doesn't seem to be any other explanation for the ulcer looking thing.
Does this sound like herpes?
Hsv can present in a few ways. Usually lesions or papercut cuts in women. I would get the areas of concern swabbed and pcr tested. I would also have an igg blood test for hsv2. I'm not saying you have hsv but at this point testing is the correct plan of action. I wish you luck and please keep me posted. I am also very sorry you were assaulted.
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Herpes spreads by oral, vaginal and anal sex.
Herpes sores blister, then burst, scab and heal.
STIs are the most common cause of genital sores.
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STDs can't be transmitted by casual contact, like hugging or touching.
Syphilis is an STD that is transmitted by oral, genital and anal sex.
