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What the heck is wrong with me?
Hi,
I had a lenghty and intimate lap dance with a stripper last October. Immediately felt guilt then anxiety over STD. I am married and a father. I was intoxicated at the time. Immediate symptoms were sore throat and neck, thought I had HIV. In fact I thought I had HIV the next day due to anxiety. Dr. assured me I am fine.
Over the next two weeks as my anxiety soars and my deppresion sets in, I get abdominal pains then pains in my groin. I start to worry about other diseases. Get tested for HIV, all clear. By the end of the month I have shooting pain in my groin, buttocks and legs. Rash develops on both thighs and hips, looks like eczema/jock itch. Go to STI clinic twice in two weeks to show them rash. Not herpes or anything else STD related. Still have burning buttocks/thighs
In Feb of '13 I go swimming in the ocean for an hour. Come out, shorts full of sand, meatus is red and raised. Panic, is this herpes? I apply Hydrocortisone, rash goes away over night. March I get electric shocks and burning in urethra and clear discharge. Dr. does full tests, negative for all STDs but HSV positive (not type specific) Panic. Dr says, no blisters not likely herpes in genitals.
To this day I have burning in my penis (subsiding, but still present), chronic pricklyness and tingling in both buttocks. No blisters after event, just that rash 4 months after that looked bumpy.
Haven't told wife, Dr assures me I am fine, but my anxiety is over loading me and my symptoms will not go away. I have been to counselling, STI clinic 4 times, PCP a dozen times. Don't know where to turn.
I had a lenghty and intimate lap dance with a stripper last October. Immediately felt guilt then anxiety over STD. I am married and a father. I was intoxicated at the time. Immediate symptoms were sore throat and neck, thought I had HIV. In fact I thought I had HIV the next day due to anxiety. Dr. assured me I am fine.
Over the next two weeks as my anxiety soars and my deppresion sets in, I get abdominal pains then pains in my groin. I start to worry about other diseases. Get tested for HIV, all clear. By the end of the month I have shooting pain in my groin, buttocks and legs. Rash develops on both thighs and hips, looks like eczema/jock itch. Go to STI clinic twice in two weeks to show them rash. Not herpes or anything else STD related. Still have burning buttocks/thighs
In Feb of '13 I go swimming in the ocean for an hour. Come out, shorts full of sand, meatus is red and raised. Panic, is this herpes? I apply Hydrocortisone, rash goes away over night. March I get electric shocks and burning in urethra and clear discharge. Dr. does full tests, negative for all STDs but HSV positive (not type specific) Panic. Dr says, no blisters not likely herpes in genitals.
To this day I have burning in my penis (subsiding, but still present), chronic pricklyness and tingling in both buttocks. No blisters after event, just that rash 4 months after that looked bumpy.
Haven't told wife, Dr assures me I am fine, but my anxiety is over loading me and my symptoms will not go away. I have been to counselling, STI clinic 4 times, PCP a dozen times. Don't know where to turn.
MEDICAL PROFESSIONAL
Sorry, typo, I mean you aren't alone.
Terri
Terri
What do you mean?
MEDICAL PROFESSIONAL
You aren't along, for sure, but it does present certain problems, right?
Terri
Terri
Of course the internet Terri. Dr. Google.
"A Dr. who diagnoses himself has a fool for a patient"
Thanks for your time. Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year
"A Dr. who diagnoses himself has a fool for a patient"
Thanks for your time. Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year
MEDICAL PROFESSIONAL
Yes, nothing you have listed sounds like herpes to me. I'm not sure where you came up with EM as a diagnosis - maybe the internet???
Terri
Terri
Thanks Terri. I have never had a cold sore that I can remember, but my parents have had them and I am sure I picked it up somewhere. So, based on my experience, my rash on both sides which i thought was Erythema Multiforme, and my rash after the ocean, and the chronic buttock pain and burning.....still not herpes?
Would you recommend type specific testing or is that feeding into the anxiety and opening a new can of worms?
Would you recommend type specific testing or is that feeding into the anxiety and opening a new can of worms?
MEDICAL PROFESSIONAL
Clearly you are having a lot of anxiety about this contact. I'm not sure that I can provide you any more reassurance than anyone else, but your contact has no risk. If you were pants were on and/or her underwear was on, this is a no risk situation.
Whether you have herpes or not I cannot say. A non-type specific test is not useful until completely negative. Have you ever in your life had a cold sore on your lip? If yes, then you will likely have antibody to HSV 1 and that could be tripping the test to a positive. You can certainly have type specific antibody testing done if you want to know if you have HSV 1 or HSV 2 or both if you are curious about this. But my point is, you don't have herpes from this encounter. I honestly think you would know if both your pants and your underwear were removed and you were grinding against her bare genitals. Don't you???
Terri
Whether you have herpes or not I cannot say. A non-type specific test is not useful until completely negative. Have you ever in your life had a cold sore on your lip? If yes, then you will likely have antibody to HSV 1 and that could be tripping the test to a positive. You can certainly have type specific antibody testing done if you want to know if you have HSV 1 or HSV 2 or both if you are curious about this. But my point is, you don't have herpes from this encounter. I honestly think you would know if both your pants and your underwear were removed and you were grinding against her bare genitals. Don't you???
Terri
Hi Terri, I think I might have bumped my own question by posting right behind it. Look foward to your advice.
FYI, I can't recall my pants being off, but am not totally sure. I did not have sex for sure.
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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.
