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Herpes symptoms or something else?

Hello, thanks in advance for everything you guys do for everyone. My story is quite complicated so try and bear with me please. It all started over two years ago. I had gotten with this promiscuous girl who was 17 at the time. She gave me oral and we had a very brief unprotected sex.(30 seconds) I didn't think much of it dumb me at the time. But two months later I had gotten a very long and kind of rough blowjob from this girl who is I've seen had cold sores. She had none at the time. I'd also like to point out I've had cold sores my whole life but in recent years I haven't had any. After that particular encounter I had a lot of anxiety the following days and weeks. I regretted it so much. Recently after I started to get tingling at the end of my penis for a week straight with my penis feeling like it hurt in general. But no sores or anything present. After a week or so everything stopped and my anxiety got better. Somewhere within the next month or two I remember getting a pimple on my penis about where my circumcision scar is located. Freaking out, I picked at it and popped it. I then applied a warm wash cloth to it for a while and it was completely gone within days with no scabbing that I can remember. Ever since then I have kept a close eye on my genitals and have been really worried I have something. I've seen everything from a little red patch that disappeared within 2 days and small pimples on my scrotum and bottom of my penis. All being single pimples never clustered. I've had an std check since and came back negative for chlamydia and gonnerhea. I've somewhat explained these symptoms to my doctor and he wasn't worried. But I now have an igg type specific test scheduled in a week. My question is, do you think this is herpes symptoms? A single pimple on penis that dissapeared after popping it within days and never returning? If not what could this be? Anything helps, because right now I'm very anxiety filled.
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Yes they usually are. These are far more common than you think, even for you. They come and go unless you are looking hard which you were owing to the encounter.
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Hello, I went to the doctor to try and get a blood test just to make sure and he wouldn't let me because I didn't have any lesions and the symptoms I described didn't alarm him. He kinda yelled at me when I kept insisting I should, which is what I needed really. I just wanna thank you for all you guys do on these forums, it really helped me get through some tough times.
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So what would that single pimple be? Just a pimple? Thanks in advance
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All sex carries a risk. The odds though are 1 in many thousands. You need to go on symptoms that emerge, which they most likely would upon infection.

You have had no herpes symptoms so no reason to suspect a 1 in many thousands chance came up for you.
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You don't think the brief vaginal intercourse poses a risk?
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Nothing complicated about this. Your symptoms in no way resemble herpes. As a male with oral HSV1, it is virtually impossible to obtain a genital HSV1 infection meaning receiving oral sex poses no risk from someone who has oral HSV1.

Your test will simply reveal a positive for HSV1, your oral infection.
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