IS THIS HERPES

[238guy]

I have been through a rough 2 weeks and trying to get this thing identified here's my story: 14 days ago i had a high risk sexual encounter involving protected oral and vaginal sex. After 3 days I started noticing symptoms, irritation redness on tip of penis, urinating more than normal times per day, excess dribble after urination,tightness and soreness in testicles, redness and irritation in eyes. I went to the local clinic and was visually diagnosed with chlamydia- was given 1G anthamycin. and tested for chlamydia, gonorrhea, syphillis, hepatitis,

Two days later had tingling over groin area and increase burning in tip of penis.to were it hurt to sit down, also had clammy feeling in boxer short area like just finished an hour cardio workout at the gym.Follow up for test result chlamydia, gonorrhea, syphillis, hepatitis - all negative (tested at 5 days post exposure).

Told to go to urologist who though may be UTI or left over Chlamydia or one of the other 1000 bacteria that are not tested for on a standard std exam, was given uribel, doxycycline and ofloxacin.

started experiencing chills sleeplessness and nervelike pain under testicles that ran around and down back of thigh. My thought this was Herpes and went for second opinion at different std clinic, doctor was skeptical but gave 5 day supply of acyclovir 400 mg 3x day and took herpes test, hiv and urine culture

the following 4 days things started to dissipate except for lymph nodes in neck became hard and swollen for about 1.5 days. FYI i was taking the uribel, doxycycline,ofloxacin and acyclovir at this time along with l-lysine, b complex vitamin and multivitamin.

test results (taken 12 days post exposure)

HSV 1/2 Herpeselect

HSV1 IGG  .25
HSV2 IGG  .14

HSV IGM    not detected

HIV 1/2      non reactive

still having lingering symptoms pins and needles in groin especially when seated, slight burn/irritation in tip of penis

So the question is do I have Herpes? yes/no/maybe

[238guy]

Grace thank you, I hope you are correct. I will be following up especially with continued testing at 6 weeks and 3 months post exposure. Thank you for taking the time to respond and get back to your vacation :)

sincerely,

238guy

[gracefromHHP]

protected sex is low risk in general - regardless of the partner! We recommend it because it works!!!

none of your symptoms are really suggestive of genital herpes. You had no obvious lesions and having all the other symptoms without them is unusual.

At this point your providers are just throwing things at you hoping that they work :(  You had protected sexual contact and odds are that none of this is std related.   Unfortunately now they've thrown a lot of antibiotics at you unnecessarily.  protected oral and protected vaginal sex is incredibly low risk in general and almost no risk for the bacterial std's they've treated you for :(

It's more likely that you've had a virus causing most of your symptoms in your body. Give it time and it will run its course. Continue to follow up with your providers as needed if symptoms linger for more than another week or two.

grace