Potential false negative test results

[nervous82]

Hello,

Exactly 3 weeks and 2 days ago someone tried to perform oral sex on me. When I say tried, I mean it lasted literally 3 seconds before I stopped it.

6 days later I noticed I had what looked like a pimple around the shaft right below the head of my penis. Went and had some STD testing and the doctor said it was HSV-1. I wasn't too concerned about that, but what I am concerned about is the possibility that this could have been syphilis or something else.

Here is why:

- He only did a herpes swab test on the sore
- The syphilis blood test was negative, but I've read it can take much longer to test positive.
- Yesterday I started having sensitivity around my anus, especially after using the bathroom. I tried looking in the mirror for any visible sores, and while there may have been something there it was really too hard to tell. And I haven't really paid that much attention to that area before...
- Today I woke up and have what looks like to be very tiny warts on the backs of my hands and fingers. Maybe this is due to all the hand washing I have been doing since my diagnosis, but I doubt it.

Reading more things online just makes it worse, because I feel like I hear different things wherever I go. Does anyone have any ideas on this? Does it sounds like syphilis? Should I go get retested, or wait a few weeks/months?

Any help is appreciated, thanks.

[nervous82]

Thanks Vance, I hope you're right and I'm just looking for symptoms like people tend to do.

The warts or whatever look to be going down, so maybe it was just a case of spider bites or something. If the other symptoms go down and nothing else comes up I think I'll be ok.

May go get retested in 2 months though.

[Vance2335]

6 days would really be too soon for a syphilis canker to appear. I doubt that it is syphilis due to the exposure, the time frame of symptom and the rarity of syphilis it's self. And any Dr would know what syphilis looked like. So if didn't say syphilis I would not worry about it.