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Please Give me your opinion
I have been tested through stdtestexpress with HerpSelect and received negative results (i don't get the number just less than .91) at the following times post exposure:
3 weeks
6 weeks
9 weeks
13 weeks
I was with a woman who later told me that she was "getting over a cold sore" and when I was with her I thought she had a healing pimple on the area between her nose and mouth.
She later told me that it had been about 14 days since her blisters burst so she thought she was ok.
She gave me oral sex and we kissed a few times.
I have had no symptoms genitally.
However, about 45 days after the incident I noticed a flesh colored bump in my moustache area. Never was painful or itchy. It did not look like a blister (translucent or liquid filled). After five days I picked at it and the next morning (about six hours) there was a round yellow scab (honey brown). The size of pincel eraser. I went the dermotologist about four hours later.
The dermatologist asked me if it tingled, or itched or was painful. He felt the sore. Again it didn't hurt when touched it.
He said that given the location one "differential" could be a cold sore, from my description of it he didn't think it was. He said since it had already scabbed over he couldn't do a culture but that he really thought it was probably an ingrown hair or something else that led to impetigo when I picked at it.
He gave me some ointment to clear it up (Mupicrocin Cream USP, 2%). I put the medicine on twice a day. By the next morning the yellow scab was now just a red scab. Two days later. The scab was gone and it was just dry flakey skin. This last a few days and then was gone. It left a small grey scar.
On a final note, i asked this woman to go and get tested so I know if I have HSV1 or 2 to worry about, and she did, she has HSV1 she even sent me the results 5.43 for HSV1 and HSV2 just said less than .91.
3 weeks
6 weeks
9 weeks
13 weeks
I was with a woman who later told me that she was "getting over a cold sore" and when I was with her I thought she had a healing pimple on the area between her nose and mouth.
She later told me that it had been about 14 days since her blisters burst so she thought she was ok.
She gave me oral sex and we kissed a few times.
I have had no symptoms genitally.
However, about 45 days after the incident I noticed a flesh colored bump in my moustache area. Never was painful or itchy. It did not look like a blister (translucent or liquid filled). After five days I picked at it and the next morning (about six hours) there was a round yellow scab (honey brown). The size of pincel eraser. I went the dermotologist about four hours later.
The dermatologist asked me if it tingled, or itched or was painful. He felt the sore. Again it didn't hurt when touched it.
He said that given the location one "differential" could be a cold sore, from my description of it he didn't think it was. He said since it had already scabbed over he couldn't do a culture but that he really thought it was probably an ingrown hair or something else that led to impetigo when I picked at it.
He gave me some ointment to clear it up (Mupicrocin Cream USP, 2%). I put the medicine on twice a day. By the next morning the yellow scab was now just a red scab. Two days later. The scab was gone and it was just dry flakey skin. This last a few days and then was gone. It left a small grey scar.
On a final note, i asked this woman to go and get tested so I know if I have HSV1 or 2 to worry about, and she did, she has HSV1 she even sent me the results 5.43 for HSV1 and HSV2 just said less than .91.
got my test done today and they said the sample went would be shipped out this afternoon.
I have had my negative 13 week test so I am hopeful that its really negative.
I am really nervous still but I wanted to say thank you.
I have had my negative 13 week test so I am hopeful that its really negative.
I am really nervous still but I wanted to say thank you.
MEDICAL PROFESSIONAL
Nor me
Terri
Terri
yeah. feels like good news. having just dry itchy flaky skin doesn't sound like a cold sore to me.
MEDICAL PROFESSIONAL
That's good news for now, right?
Terri
Terri
We did talk on thursday. I ended up not being able to get an appointment with the dermatologist, but it feels like it would have been wasted anyways.
After three days: Itching just above the lip, dry flaky skin. no blisters. no pus. no crusting. no pain. no swelling and the redness is gone.
After three days: Itching just above the lip, dry flaky skin. no blisters. no pus. no crusting. no pain. no swelling and the redness is gone.
MEDICAL PROFESSIONAL
Good. I hope we talked on Thursday, hard for me to tell between the clinic and here!
Terri
Terri
You are reading content posted in the Herpes Forum
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.
Millions of people are diagnosed with STDs in the U.S. each year.
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.
