Possiblity of misdiagnoses?

Well in March of 2008 i experience blistering on my genitals that were pretty painful so I went to my regular doctor that I never really cared for much and she took one look and a swab and left the room for about 5 minutes and came back an told me I had genital herpes, scolded me for not being more careful and gave me a perscription and sent me on my way. i never received a blood test. So now almost 3 years later i have never had another outbreak or any other symptoms. i havent taken valtrex since the initial time. I know that this can be normal for people with genital herpes but I was considering getting a second opinion from my new doctor. It has been very stressful for me ever since I got diagnosed. I have been in a relationship since with fear of having to tell a partner about my STD in fear of rejection, I have been reading about similiar cases online about people getting a second opinion and finding out they were misdiagnosed. i just find it odd that the only symptom i ever experienced was the blistering and it has never happened since. Any answers of suggestions would be great! Thank you for reading.

[Mistakeguy789]

Visual diagnosis is wrong at least 1/3 of the time.  I am not really sure on looking at HSV under a microsope.  It would be adviseable for getting a HSV type specific igg blood test just to see what type you have.  

Chances are if this is herpes then you have HSV-1 genitally.  Your doctor should have sent the swab out for culture and typing.  HSV-1 genitally doesn't have the high reoccurance rate that HSV-2 does.  It is typical in HSV-1 genitial to go years or even a lifetime without having another outbreak.  It does happen.  At this point I would highly recommend getting yourself a blood test.  

I will defer to grace on the microsocope being used to diagnois HSV.  She may know of that being done.  Typically it is my understanding that they culture and type it.  

[lacyloo78]

Ok thank you! my doctor never told me that she did any tests but i would hope that she did. But i think i am going to get a blood test from my current doctor just to make sure. My previous doctor did say that isnt uncommon for someone to go years without having an outbreak so thats what i figure i the case. Thanks for your comment.

[gracefromHHP]

odds are a tzanck smear was done. they aren't always accurate. it's unfortunate no lesion cultures were done and sent off to the lab evidently?  

certainly follow up with a type specific herpes igg blood test. also if you can get a copy of your herpes test results from the previous provider, you can see if you actually did have a lesion culture done that was typed.

did you by chance receive oral sex within a week or two of your original symptoms ( if you can even remember at this point )?

grace

[lacyloo78]

not that i remember but im sure that i probably didnt because i was pretty upset for awhile after getting the diagnoses.

[Mistakeguy789]

Before the diagnosis did you get oral sex?  

Where you able to get in contact with your provider about the actual results?