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Red patches raw skin, Herpes?
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Edward W Hook, MD - HIV Prevention, stds
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Red patches raw skin, Herpes?
by xtrialx, Jul 18, 2008 07:59PM
Hi Doc, I actually posted a question yesterday and thank you for your wonderful quick reponse. This unfortunately has nothing to do with what I asked last night. Let me start off with a brief history, about 2 weeks ago I went to on a trip to hang out with a girl that I have know through other friends and we spent about a week together having unproteced oral and vaginal sex about 2 times a day for 6 days. I had talked to her about if she had any STD's and the answer was no but there is always a chance that she has just never had symptoms. So because I haven't had that ammount of sex in awhile my penis was a little sore and there were some red bumps and red areas which I thought nothing about really, they were raw and I wrote them off to irritation from sex. When I got home I found it a little hard to masturbate because it hurt alittle but I did it anyways and I also found that right under the head of the penis all the way around had dead white skin that was flaking off.
Now fast forward to two nights ago when I met a transexual from the internet (my last post was about a sex toy, hiv and a transexual) I recieved unproteced rough oral sex. Two days later, that being today, I have noticed that around the tip of my penis, the back of the head of my penis, and the shaft there are little red patches and I when i picked at then the skin can off and revealed raw skin. There are no bumps or ozzing just a cover of skin that I was able to thumb off and left a red raw area. I have don't feel sick or have swollen lymph nodes. Is this just skin healing it self from the large amount of sex I had 2 weeks ago or is this Herpes from either her or the transexual I met 2 nights ago. I am worried that it is herpes because during sex there is no real trauma to the back of the head of the penis and that is why i suspect herpes and not just irritated skin. Thank you for your help!
Now fast forward to two nights ago when I met a transexual from the internet (my last post was about a sex toy, hiv and a transexual) I recieved unproteced rough oral sex. Two days later, that being today, I have noticed that around the tip of my penis, the back of the head of my penis, and the shaft there are little red patches and I when i picked at then the skin can off and revealed raw skin. There are no bumps or ozzing just a cover of skin that I was able to thumb off and left a red raw area. I have don't feel sick or have swollen lymph nodes. Is this just skin healing it self from the large amount of sex I had 2 weeks ago or is this Herpes from either her or the transexual I met 2 nights ago. I am worried that it is herpes because during sex there is no real trauma to the back of the head of the penis and that is why i suspect herpes and not just irritated skin. Thank you for your help!
Doctor's Answer
by Edward W Hook, MD, Jul 18, 2008 09:47PM
, Jul 18, 2008 09:47PM
Your basic assumption, that sex is not traumatic, is incorrect. The fact of the mature is sex ia ALWAYS traumtic. Friction is the basis of sex. Imagine for instnace if you rubbed you pennis multiple times with very fine sand paper. Over time there woiuld be irritation and that, in turn, would effect the skin which was being rubbed. In addition, with the sort of friction which occurs with repeated sex (multiple exposures, rough sex and even masturbation. What you have described is the description of healing skin. this is not herpes. EWH
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