friction burn or herpes

[mattinva]

I am a 30 yr old male. After masturbation I noticed I had really dry skin on my penis and that I had rubbed two small, I call them friction sores onto my penis. I have experienced similar "friction sores" before so I didn't pay them much attention. The next day or maybe 2 days later I again masterbated and irritated the small sores. They began to get bigger and itch like any little sore would do, but as I itched... it got worse and they got bigger and almost looked infected. I have noticed that around the biggest one has gotten inflamed and sticks up like a small cluster of bumps. its not really painful at all, its more of a tingly feeling or numb feeling. It doesn't hurt to touch the cluster and I don't have any other sores on or around my groin area. Also when I urinate, it kind of has a tingly feeling at first, no discharge or anything like that. I jus last night applied calamine lotion to the area and it is heeling great. The sores are heeling and the inflamation is going down but is still there. I'm wondering if I contracted herpes, I did have unprotected sex with a girl 2 weeks ago or do I jus have an infected sore. I didn't really treat the small sores til the calamine lotion. Please help

[gracefromHHP]

placebo is a cream without any active medication in it.

you can seek out a type specific herpes igg blood test 3 months after the last time you had sex.

[mattinva]

what is placebo? and what would be the best test to take if the culture test has a high negative rate? would herpes be oozing something?

[gracefromHHP]

acyclovir cream only heals herpes lesions half a day sooner than using a placebo.   darn shame your provider isn't up to date and caused you to spend that sort of money needlessly :(

the culture would ideally tell you if you had herpes going on. unfortunately there is a high false negative rate and sounds like there wasn't much to culture if it took them 4 tries.  

[mattinva]

also... (sorry) why do you say the tests will be negative? are these not accurate tests?

[mattinva]

the cream cost me $50.00 with insurance!!! and your telling me that its not a good medicine? why is it not recommended? are the blood tests better? what does the culture test tell you? and if the ointment was working before should i go back to that? thanks again

[gracefromHHP]

zovirax cream really doesn't do anything for herpes. it hasn't been recommended for using on genital herpes lesions for many, many years now.

at this point all you can do is wait for your lesion culture results but it sounds like they will be negative regardless.  follow up with a type specific herpes igg blood test too.


life after herpes? the same as it was before except for something, you have to avoid sex because you have a recurrence. You can have sex every which way you can, you can have a family - it's not the end of anything at all.