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Hi Terri,
Im hoping you can address some concerns as I know you have a high knowledge about Herpes. My fear is of herpes whitlow , Seven 7 days after fingering a woman, I developed a skin tear / cut that was bleeding. There was skin stuck in the cut so I tried scraping the skin out peeling it off with my finger nail. Several hours later it turned into a single blister which didn't hurt , neither the cut or blister hurt . From what I have read about herpes on the finger it generally starts out as a bump that turns into a blister , and then the blister opens up and turns into a sore, and later it crust over and forms a scab .
Whereas mine started as a skin tear or cut , than turned into a blister with a bit of puss . Later that day I drained the blister and a scab formed, once again painless . Unfortunately 2 weeks later I hit my hand on something and it forced the scab to come off which has resulted in a scar. Please address the following questions.
1- does this sound like herpes whitlow , the blister didn't resemble a water blister and it wasn't clustered .
The progression seems different from typical herpes as it started as a skin tear/ and then graduated into a blister.
2- if it was herpes whitlow, the fact that my finger now has a scarr , if the virus re-uccrs , is it going to be a lot more painful since I have a scar on my finger. I have read on the internet that a scar is damage to my skin. So I'm now freaked that if it re-uccurs , it will be a lot more painful , and make the scar worse .
The scar has me worried that I'm now going to have complications with herpes , which seems to me to be a very manageable condition . Thanks for reviewing my post .
Im hoping you can address some concerns as I know you have a high knowledge about Herpes. My fear is of herpes whitlow , Seven 7 days after fingering a woman, I developed a skin tear / cut that was bleeding. There was skin stuck in the cut so I tried scraping the skin out peeling it off with my finger nail. Several hours later it turned into a single blister which didn't hurt , neither the cut or blister hurt . From what I have read about herpes on the finger it generally starts out as a bump that turns into a blister , and then the blister opens up and turns into a sore, and later it crust over and forms a scab .
Whereas mine started as a skin tear or cut , than turned into a blister with a bit of puss . Later that day I drained the blister and a scab formed, once again painless . Unfortunately 2 weeks later I hit my hand on something and it forced the scab to come off which has resulted in a scar. Please address the following questions.
1- does this sound like herpes whitlow , the blister didn't resemble a water blister and it wasn't clustered .
The progression seems different from typical herpes as it started as a skin tear/ and then graduated into a blister.
2- if it was herpes whitlow, the fact that my finger now has a scarr , if the virus re-uccrs , is it going to be a lot more painful since I have a scar on my finger. I have read on the internet that a scar is damage to my skin. So I'm now freaked that if it re-uccurs , it will be a lot more painful , and make the scar worse .
The scar has me worried that I'm now going to have complications with herpes , which seems to me to be a very manageable condition . Thanks for reviewing my post .
MEDICAL PROFESSIONAL
For herpes, it would be the other way around. It would start as a red area, that then blisters (water in a popped up area), then ulcerate.
This is my final response on this post.
Terri
This is my final response on this post.
Terri
This is my final question , At the beginning the skin tear that I described is it possible that it was a skin ulcer due to herpes , and that the ulcer turned into a blister . Also can you please tell me what a water blister looks like? Once again it definitely started as a break in the skin that was bleeding. Thank you for the information
MEDICAL PROFESSIONAL
Whitlow would not start as a tear, no. I would start as normal skin that would become red and somewhat swollen and then blister. Yours doesn't sound like it went that way.
Terri
Terri
It started as a tear in the skin that had slight bleeding . Then later that day it turned into a single blister. I'm not sure how the tear/cut happened . Would a whitlow start as a tear in the skin and then progress to a blister.
The blister was single and it wasn't clustered, there was no pain. Do people ever have painless whitlow? Thanks for reviewing my question. All the best
The blister was single and it wasn't clustered, there was no pain. Do people ever have painless whitlow? Thanks for reviewing my question. All the best
MEDICAL PROFESSIONAL
Sorry, some how this didn't come up on my list.
1. In my experience (and I have seen quite a lot of whitlow), the lesions of whitlow are CLEARLY water blisters the first time. It is just classic on the hand skin vs. the genital skin. If these weren't water blisters and clustered, I seriously doubt that it is whitlow.
2. A scar just means that the skin has healed and where it has pulled itself back together, it left a mark, that's all. It doesn't mean anything else.
The confusing thing to me is what happened to your finger. You don't develop a cut on the finger without some kind of trauma to the skin. So what happened, do you think?
Terri
1. In my experience (and I have seen quite a lot of whitlow), the lesions of whitlow are CLEARLY water blisters the first time. It is just classic on the hand skin vs. the genital skin. If these weren't water blisters and clustered, I seriously doubt that it is whitlow.
2. A scar just means that the skin has healed and where it has pulled itself back together, it left a mark, that's all. It doesn't mean anything else.
The confusing thing to me is what happened to your finger. You don't develop a cut on the finger without some kind of trauma to the skin. So what happened, do you think?
Terri
I was wondering why you haven't responded to my post when you have replied to others that were later than mine , please advise .
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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.
