H. Hunter Handsfield, M.D.
Five weeks after exposure about 70-80% of people with new HSV-2 infections would have positive tests. It is better to test at about 3-4 months after the last exposure.
But this is irrelevant in your situation; it is already 100% certain you do not have HSV-2. Re-read my reply if you don't understand why. And do the searching I suggested to read other di...
Burning and itching are sometimes reported as symptoms of warts, but they are not. Genital warts usually are entirely without symptoms except for the bumps themselves. No STD can cause a burning feeling on the hands. My guess is that nothing is wrong with your hands. But see a health care provider if you disagree.
Warts have lots of different appearan...
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Only rough estimates are available. But here are some pertinent data. In a study to determine the effectiveness of antiherpetic therapy (valacylovir) to prevent transmission of HSV-2, monogamous couples who were HSV-2 discordant -- i.e. one with HSV-2, the other without it -- the rate of transmission was about 5% per year. Tha...
1) By "cleared up" I mean your HPV infection is gone (and probably was gone by your 21st birthday) and could not have been transmitted to your current lover or anyone else. There is always a chance of later recurrence (with a newly abnormal pap smear) -- but that usually doesn't happen.
2) HSV-2 might sometimes be transmitted by genital appositi...
Welcome to the forum. I'll try to help. By chance, this is the second question today about genital HSV-1.
First, let's discuss your symptoms. Whatever the cause of the "small shiny red patch of skin...on the opposite side of the penis", for sure it wasn't herpes. It also was not "a bonus mystery STD". No STD causes the skin changes...
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The HPV types that cause genital warts (mostly HPV-6 and -11) rarely if ever cause warts elsewhere. And in 30+ years in the STD business, I have never seen or heard of finger warts due to genital wart strains (despite thousands of patients who fingered their partners with warts). And it is very unlikely warts would appear on man...
