Herpes diagnosis?

[ConfusedSarah1872]

I am a heterosexual female in my mid twenties. I recently went to the doctor with complaints of painful urination and bowel movements along with vaginal itching and discharge. She diagnosed the vaginal itching as bacterial vaginosis but she said during the exam that she noticed "lesions" on my cervix that she said are possibly due to herpes?! I then mentioned the painful bowel movements and she said it was probably due to herpes as well. I have never had contact with anyone who I knew had herpes and I have no other symptoms (no lesions on the outside of my anus or vaginal area). She sent the test out for HSV and it will be back in a week but I'm freaking out in the meantime. Do you think the "lesions" that she saw on my cervix could be related to the bacterial vaginosis and the painful bowel movements could be unrelated? One thought is that I took way too much cranberry supplement on Tuesday (6 days ago) and the painful bowel movements began two days later (4 days ago). Could the cranberry supplement have created such an acidic environment that my bowel movements irritated the anus?

[Life360_Dave]

Hi, swabs are only accurate for showing a positive. If you want to confirm your herpes status have a blood test. You can test now for an old infection or wait 3 months post any sex for a recent infection.

[ConfusedSarah1872]

She did a swab test and told me that if it came back negative I should do the blood test in 3 months.

[Fleetwood20]

Visual diagnoses are not overly accurate at all. I think the doctor is mainly being thorough in terms of a diagnosis.

What testing did you have done for HSV, swab and blood?