Aa
Inflamation, or STD?
Hello,
I am a sexually active male that has had a rash for 3 months now. I went to the doctors immediately after i realized i had it i believe i got it from a unhygenic day at the beach with contaminated water. Long story short went swimming, then work, then unprotected sex with a girl from work (has a bf so almost sure clean), then forgot to shower till next morning. I am VERY hygenic but this day i just wasnt. The next day i noticed severe redness on the head of my penis (I am not circumsized) and washed it immediately, later that day i noticed redness was gone, awesome but not really. Since then i have been on hydrocortizone cream, antifungal creams like canesten, took the Pill for fungul infections, and the redness is still there it hasnt gone away at all its been toned down due to the hydrocortizone but yu can still see it (pink rather than red). I have been checked by 4 different doctors and all of them have said it is NOT herpes, i got tested in summer about 2 weeks before this began and it came back negative. The redness is predominately under the foreskin and on the forskin tip like when unretacted it is red all round the tip, aswell as when retracted a few areas which would be under the foreskin, and lastly the tip of the urethra is red and sometimes stings a little when i pee. I have yet to develop a lump at all in these 3 months, but i today i did have skin peel off, i dont know if it would be the hydrocortizone cream stopping me from developing the lumps.
Im concerned that it is Balanitis of some kind, because if it was herpes it would have gone away by now for atleast a little bit. Please someone give me a tip, cause when i asked the doctor and showed them and brought up balanitis they said it couldnt be but then again the rashes were pink cause of only an hour before going i wiped off the hydrocortizone cream. Could this also not be going away cause im still worried as to what it is even though ive been told im good its just a inflamation?
Thanks a ton
I am a sexually active male that has had a rash for 3 months now. I went to the doctors immediately after i realized i had it i believe i got it from a unhygenic day at the beach with contaminated water. Long story short went swimming, then work, then unprotected sex with a girl from work (has a bf so almost sure clean), then forgot to shower till next morning. I am VERY hygenic but this day i just wasnt. The next day i noticed severe redness on the head of my penis (I am not circumsized) and washed it immediately, later that day i noticed redness was gone, awesome but not really. Since then i have been on hydrocortizone cream, antifungal creams like canesten, took the Pill for fungul infections, and the redness is still there it hasnt gone away at all its been toned down due to the hydrocortizone but yu can still see it (pink rather than red). I have been checked by 4 different doctors and all of them have said it is NOT herpes, i got tested in summer about 2 weeks before this began and it came back negative. The redness is predominately under the foreskin and on the forskin tip like when unretacted it is red all round the tip, aswell as when retracted a few areas which would be under the foreskin, and lastly the tip of the urethra is red and sometimes stings a little when i pee. I have yet to develop a lump at all in these 3 months, but i today i did have skin peel off, i dont know if it would be the hydrocortizone cream stopping me from developing the lumps.
Im concerned that it is Balanitis of some kind, because if it was herpes it would have gone away by now for atleast a little bit. Please someone give me a tip, cause when i asked the doctor and showed them and brought up balanitis they said it couldnt be but then again the rashes were pink cause of only an hour before going i wiped off the hydrocortizone cream. Could this also not be going away cause im still worried as to what it is even though ive been told im good its just a inflamation?
Thanks a ton
Well, in case you didn't know, there are no doctors on the free forums. We are just regular old people who share our experiences with stds. So, you should go see the dermatologist. Even if we were doctors, rashes could signify many things so, you'd a medical examination to be diagnosed and we can't do that for you.
i have been following up with them ive been seeing my family doctor ever 2-3 weeks and just this week he said it is a form of balanitis but he has no clue which form so hes sending me to a dermatologist. just concerned about it being a mis diagnoses on his part
You really should keep following up with your doctors. If you have tested and are negative, then you don't have an std from your sexual encounter.
Have an Answer?
You are reading content posted in the STDs / STIs Community
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.
