Confused about heroes viral culture

[Ashleymarrae]

This is a long story , so I apologize . I went the the doctor for my yearly exam . I asked for an std panel with blood herpes testing . Something I decided to ask for since my roommate just recently found out that she is a carrier through a blood test done during her pregnancy . She said she was unaware that she was even infected , so I figured I would get tested too . Well, everything came back negative except for hsv1, which I already knew I had cold sores on my mouth before . I got my results on a Friday . Had protected sex on a Sunday night( technically Monday morning)with the same partner of a year . Our sex usually only last like ten minutes but this night we were really drunk and he couldn't finish . After an hour I made him stop due to the condom hurting me so bad . I woke up sore . Assumed it was from the sex . The next day I noticed what felt like a cyst under my skin . The pain was worse . I looked and looked in the mirror and did not see anything . I went to my doctor Wednesday to make sure it wasn't a cyst ( I get cyst on my body sometimes ) . While undressing I even checked myself in the mirror in the doctors room and didn't see anything . My doctor came in and felt around . Said he felt the lump . Then he said he saw something that looked like a small tear. He asked if I had rough sex recently and I said yes . Then he said I could have it cultured if I wanted but he wouldn't force it since I literally just got my blood results back showing negative . Being the paranoid person that I am I did get it cultured. He told me this would only take three days and I'd get a call back . When I left I re inspected the area and saw a red line . I assumed it was from the culture because it hurt like hell . He said it had to hurt so that he could make sure he was getting any virus that might be n the tissue . My "cut" healed in three days . No medication . Five days went by so I called and asked for my results . The nurse said she couldn't find them and that she would call the lab and call me back . The next day she called to apologize and say that they couldn't find them either n their system . The next day I woke up feeling like I had the flu. I knew I this was it . I was a little confused as to why I was having the flu symptoms after my "first outbreak" had already healed. I waited and waited and then felt a painful sensation in my arm . Looked in the mirror to notice a horrible rash on my arm . Went to the doctor who said it was shingles . Well twelve days later I get a call from the nurse saying that they found my culture from my vagina cut and it was positive for hsv2. I'm so confused . I also wanna add that I have very very bad stretch marks in my thigh . They have always been bloody red and run together . I have made a habit out of avoiding looking at them . Because I have suffered bad depression over them . Well I was taking a bath and almost didn't even notice it but it looked like the same rash on my arm was on my thigh but almost completely healed . More like how my arm looks now two weeks later . So , now going back to the doctors appointment when my doctor swabbed the cut on my vagina . He took a qtip and said "I'm gonna rub this on your thigh to show you that it's just a qtip". And he wouldn't have seen the rash being as that he covers yours legs with a blanket and then pulls it down only to reveal your vagina . Which is why I use him . I'm so embarrassed of my thighs after my last ob made a remark about my stretchmarks . So , I guess my question is , could the shingles had been on my thigh first and contaminated the culture ? I have not had any outbreaks or problems since . And I also read that when an outbreak heals it doesn't leave a scar but where my cut was it looks like a tear that healed still . It has been over a month only but I feel fine, after clearing up the shingles which was awful . I got a blood test last week to check again and should am wondering , if my hsv2 results are still negative can I assume this was a lab mistake ? It has been a little over a month since the "out break". I also eat junk food and drink caffeine and live off of coffee . I'm terribly stressed about a job interview coming up and I raise two boys alone and just had a period . Wouldn't I have had an ob by now ?