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Herpes Advice
Ok, so I had unprotected sex around the middle of March with someone I didn't know, and we didn't use protection, dumb, I know.
Anyway, about three weeks later, my crotch felt kind of itchy, but I chalked it up to hair regrowth as I shave quite frequently. I was going to shave and I noticed a few small, flesh colored bumps on my outer labia. Not even thinking, I scratched them and they popped and started to bleed just a bit. They weren't painful, or swollen, and after they popped they seemed more like little bug bites. They healed in about three days. I didn't notice any other symptoms other than they stung a bit if I happened to get urine on them. Honestly, I was too scared to go in and get checked it was such a shock I couldn't even wrap my mind around it. When I finally did get the courage to go in, they had healed and the doctor looked at everything and said I seemed fine. The doctor did the routine std tests but advised me to not get the herpes blood test done as it would cost 40 dollars.
Well, three weeks later, when I was, again, shaving, I felt two bumps, this time by the opening of my vagina. It didn't seem like normal razor burn. Again, they weren't really painful and I didn't notice hair where they were. This time I got checked out as soon as possible, unfortunately the office was closed when I went to go in and had to wait a day so the sores were already pretty healed by the time I went in. When I went in to get checked out the next day, I got the results from my previous std checks, and all came back negative. When the doctor examined me, she said that they seemed more like cuts than anything. She took a sample of fluid from one of the sores and I am currently waiting on the results.
It's been about a week and again, I have been itching on my outer labia, but again I have hair regrowth. I looked and it seems like maybe there had been another bump as there is a little red spot on my right outer labia, almost where my first bumps had been. There is just one though and this time it looks like a hair is there and actually, the left side of my vagina is the side that itches at all. I'm not going to shave just to be on the safe side.
I guess the main question I have is this a normal way for herpes to present itself? Has anyone else experienced these sort of symptoms? that have herpes? that don't have herpes?
I'm not really trying to give myself false hope because it just seems so likely to be herpes. I guess what I fear is that my test results come back negative but I won't be convinced that it's true or that the test was accurate because if this isn't herpes what in the world could it be? I feel like I've scoured the internet and nothing fits quite like herpes. And I'd just get a blood test but I've read that until around twelve weeks after exposure blood tests can give a false negative because the body hasn't developed enough antibodies. The thought of having to wait that long though is just going to drive me crazy, I just want to have a final answer and be done with it so I can move on with my life. Any insight would be really appreciated.
Anyway, about three weeks later, my crotch felt kind of itchy, but I chalked it up to hair regrowth as I shave quite frequently. I was going to shave and I noticed a few small, flesh colored bumps on my outer labia. Not even thinking, I scratched them and they popped and started to bleed just a bit. They weren't painful, or swollen, and after they popped they seemed more like little bug bites. They healed in about three days. I didn't notice any other symptoms other than they stung a bit if I happened to get urine on them. Honestly, I was too scared to go in and get checked it was such a shock I couldn't even wrap my mind around it. When I finally did get the courage to go in, they had healed and the doctor looked at everything and said I seemed fine. The doctor did the routine std tests but advised me to not get the herpes blood test done as it would cost 40 dollars.
Well, three weeks later, when I was, again, shaving, I felt two bumps, this time by the opening of my vagina. It didn't seem like normal razor burn. Again, they weren't really painful and I didn't notice hair where they were. This time I got checked out as soon as possible, unfortunately the office was closed when I went to go in and had to wait a day so the sores were already pretty healed by the time I went in. When I went in to get checked out the next day, I got the results from my previous std checks, and all came back negative. When the doctor examined me, she said that they seemed more like cuts than anything. She took a sample of fluid from one of the sores and I am currently waiting on the results.
It's been about a week and again, I have been itching on my outer labia, but again I have hair regrowth. I looked and it seems like maybe there had been another bump as there is a little red spot on my right outer labia, almost where my first bumps had been. There is just one though and this time it looks like a hair is there and actually, the left side of my vagina is the side that itches at all. I'm not going to shave just to be on the safe side.
I guess the main question I have is this a normal way for herpes to present itself? Has anyone else experienced these sort of symptoms? that have herpes? that don't have herpes?
I'm not really trying to give myself false hope because it just seems so likely to be herpes. I guess what I fear is that my test results come back negative but I won't be convinced that it's true or that the test was accurate because if this isn't herpes what in the world could it be? I feel like I've scoured the internet and nothing fits quite like herpes. And I'd just get a blood test but I've read that until around twelve weeks after exposure blood tests can give a false negative because the body hasn't developed enough antibodies. The thought of having to wait that long though is just going to drive me crazy, I just want to have a final answer and be done with it so I can move on with my life. Any insight would be really appreciated.
Well I would go in everytime but I dont have insurance so it costs around twenty five dollars each time plus I'm a student and I work so schedule wise it gets tough. Also the sore I saw yesterday is seemingly gone, so if I went in I dont think I'd have anything to show them. The first time I went in she checked me vaginally and took samples for the std check and I believe for a yeast infection but she said everything looked fine and healthy, and I don't have discharge. The second time they just looked externally. I have stopped shaving and I should hear my results this coming thursday.
this could be any number of things going on. best thing to do is to be seen every time you have symptoms. have they been testing you for yeast and bacterial infections vaginally when you are seen? also I'd stop shaving until you get to the bottom of this too.
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Herpes spreads by oral, vaginal and anal sex.
Herpes sores blister, then burst, scab and heal.
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