Getting herpes from so eone who tested negative on a blood test?

[palmer_glen]

So I was sleeping with this girl shortly before leaving the country for a number of months. About a week after leaving, I get textbook herpes symptoms. I ask her to get tested just to be sure, as I don't have the means to get tested myself. She gets a blood test and a swab test, both come back negative. It is now three months later, and I continue to have outbreaks on a regular basis. There has maybe been a total of two weeks where I have been outbreak free. I exercise regulary, eat healthy, and take lysine and various other supplements that supposedly help.

So my question is that is even possible? Could I potentially have something else? Her testing negative was a big surprise, as I basically thought that'd be formality based on the symptoms I was having.

Second question: Is there anything I can be doing in the meantime (assuming I am positive), being I don't have access to testing or medications?

Third question: Is it best to hold off on meds as long as possible to build up immunity?

Thank you.

[feelingundone]

There are conditions that look like herpes. You could have a bacterial infection. Next outbreak you need to get them looked at. I know you're out of country but see what you can do

[palmer_glen]

My outbreaks are blisters or blister clusters. I get them on my groin, shaft, and testes, although they are almost never in the same spot. Bad ones will heal with a yellow crust on the skin. I'll have an outbreak for a week, be maybe 2 to 7 days outbreak free, then have another outbreak in a different spot.

Just before having my initial outbreak I shaved my pubs with a oldish razer that had been in the shower for a while, and had a couple niks and cuts from shaving. Initially I thought it was from that, but the symptoms are so spot on to herpes that its hard to say it might be something else. Is there some kind of infection from shaving that, if untreated, has symptoms identical to herpes?

[feelingundone]

It's hard to say for sure what you have going on. Describe the outbreaks.
As far as her testing negative. First, she may indeed be negative and this isn't hsv. It takes weeks to months to build antibodies so maybe her infection is recent and she hasn't built the antibodies. Another posibility although small, she may not make antibodies. Almost 10% of people may never make the antibodies.
Meds are the only thing proven to work.