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Does it sound like I have herpes?
Hello, Dr.
Nearly a year ago I had close genital contact and two-way oral sex with an American girl I’d been only casually acquainted with for a year. She was at the end of her period, and there was no protection. Although she said at the time that she had no STDs, we were both intoxicated and I only asked her if she was infected with anything after we started fooling around. I regretted the encounter almost immediately.
I was at the end of a year in Europe at the time, and flew home the next day to the states. About a week later two pimples formed near my crotch. One formed above my penis at the base of a hair, and another formed on the side of my shaft. From what I’ve seen of herpes, they didn’t fit the description of a herpes sore. One filled up with puss more than once, and they didn’t leave any ulcers. It’s very rare the I get anything like a pimple on my penis.
When these pimples popped up I was experiencing some body aches, a sore throat, and some swelling. I felt some swelling in my lower lips. It felt like there was fluid right below the surface. Also I was experiencing some swelling and redness under my armpits, and in my groin. I was both stressed out that I may have caught STD, and also worn out from travel. I was constantly checking myself for abnormalities.
I went to the doctor, and told him that I was frightened that I might have herpes. He told me that the redness under my arms looked, if anything, like it was do to the heat or something fungal. He told me that the pimples on my penis didn’t look like Herpes, and that it was unlikely, though possible, that I caught genital herpes through oral sex with this specific girl. Some time later I experienced cracking at both corners of my lips. I went to the dermatologist. She told me it wasn’t herpes just angular cheilitis, and wrote me a prescription for some cream.
Although somewhat relieved I still felt that there was a chance I had herpes.
I’ve had sex since the encounter of a year ago, but it was protected and with someone I know well.
About a month ago school really began to start stressing me out, and I had to stay up a few late nights studying. I developed a sore throat, and became fatigued. I started feeling some soreness and swelling on either side of my lower lip (where my lip touches my canines). Over the course of the past 6 weeks, I have been on the look-out for possible symptoms of herpes.
Five weeks ago small hard clear blister formed inside my mouth between my cheek and lower lip. I popped it by pushing the bottom of my cheek again my teeth, and there was no pain or ulcer. Around the same time, a few days after my barber shaved under my mustache with an electric clipper, I developed what may have been a cold sore right above my top lip. I felt some swelling below the surface of the lip – like a very tiny bb. I felt like there may have been a pocket of puss under the surface, and I tried to pop it as soon as I could. I popped it and some watery puss came out. There was never a hard scab, but a layer of thin clear skin formed over the irritated area as well as a small portion of my lip. There was never anything that I could have identified as explicitly a blister, but there was dryness. The condition above my lip cleared up in five days.
About three weeks ago I stayed up all night studying and a day later I discovered a very small blood filled blister in the back of my mouth above where my wisdom teeth would have been. It went away, but about two weeks ago, I discovered that another bigger blister had formed and broken in the same place – I never saw the blister, but I noticed dead white skin hanging from the spot. I may have snagged the area with my tooth brush, but I can’t remember for sure. There was a sore area for about two days. I also developed a mild ear ache during the time. Sometime after this I developed the same redness under my arms and at my groin that I experienced a year ago. Also my butt has been achy. I have found some single itchy bumps at the base of hairs, and had an dry itchy bit of skin at the top of my butt that lasted a few days. I haven’t had any fluid filled blisters, or anything that has left ulcers on my skin. I’ve had irritation, but no intense pain.
My fatigue has lasted for some time and I’ve been experiencing a dull sore throat for intermittently for about the same amount of time. The redness under my arms has persisted for about two weeks, and the redness at my groin for about one.
Does this sound like recurrent herpes? I’d like to think I’m just being a hypocondriac.
Nearly a year ago I had close genital contact and two-way oral sex with an American girl I’d been only casually acquainted with for a year. She was at the end of her period, and there was no protection. Although she said at the time that she had no STDs, we were both intoxicated and I only asked her if she was infected with anything after we started fooling around. I regretted the encounter almost immediately.
I was at the end of a year in Europe at the time, and flew home the next day to the states. About a week later two pimples formed near my crotch. One formed above my penis at the base of a hair, and another formed on the side of my shaft. From what I’ve seen of herpes, they didn’t fit the description of a herpes sore. One filled up with puss more than once, and they didn’t leave any ulcers. It’s very rare the I get anything like a pimple on my penis.
When these pimples popped up I was experiencing some body aches, a sore throat, and some swelling. I felt some swelling in my lower lips. It felt like there was fluid right below the surface. Also I was experiencing some swelling and redness under my armpits, and in my groin. I was both stressed out that I may have caught STD, and also worn out from travel. I was constantly checking myself for abnormalities.
I went to the doctor, and told him that I was frightened that I might have herpes. He told me that the redness under my arms looked, if anything, like it was do to the heat or something fungal. He told me that the pimples on my penis didn’t look like Herpes, and that it was unlikely, though possible, that I caught genital herpes through oral sex with this specific girl. Some time later I experienced cracking at both corners of my lips. I went to the dermatologist. She told me it wasn’t herpes just angular cheilitis, and wrote me a prescription for some cream.
Although somewhat relieved I still felt that there was a chance I had herpes.
I’ve had sex since the encounter of a year ago, but it was protected and with someone I know well.
About a month ago school really began to start stressing me out, and I had to stay up a few late nights studying. I developed a sore throat, and became fatigued. I started feeling some soreness and swelling on either side of my lower lip (where my lip touches my canines). Over the course of the past 6 weeks, I have been on the look-out for possible symptoms of herpes.
Five weeks ago small hard clear blister formed inside my mouth between my cheek and lower lip. I popped it by pushing the bottom of my cheek again my teeth, and there was no pain or ulcer. Around the same time, a few days after my barber shaved under my mustache with an electric clipper, I developed what may have been a cold sore right above my top lip. I felt some swelling below the surface of the lip – like a very tiny bb. I felt like there may have been a pocket of puss under the surface, and I tried to pop it as soon as I could. I popped it and some watery puss came out. There was never a hard scab, but a layer of thin clear skin formed over the irritated area as well as a small portion of my lip. There was never anything that I could have identified as explicitly a blister, but there was dryness. The condition above my lip cleared up in five days.
About three weeks ago I stayed up all night studying and a day later I discovered a very small blood filled blister in the back of my mouth above where my wisdom teeth would have been. It went away, but about two weeks ago, I discovered that another bigger blister had formed and broken in the same place – I never saw the blister, but I noticed dead white skin hanging from the spot. I may have snagged the area with my tooth brush, but I can’t remember for sure. There was a sore area for about two days. I also developed a mild ear ache during the time. Sometime after this I developed the same redness under my arms and at my groin that I experienced a year ago. Also my butt has been achy. I have found some single itchy bumps at the base of hairs, and had an dry itchy bit of skin at the top of my butt that lasted a few days. I haven’t had any fluid filled blisters, or anything that has left ulcers on my skin. I’ve had irritation, but no intense pain.
My fatigue has lasted for some time and I’ve been experiencing a dull sore throat for intermittently for about the same amount of time. The redness under my arms has persisted for about two weeks, and the redness at my groin for about one.
Does this sound like recurrent herpes? I’d like to think I’m just being a hypocondriac.
Herpes???? NOTHING AT ALL you have said suggests herpes at all!!!! Sore throat, cracking skin, pimples and the rest of your symptoms do not coincide Herpes nor any other STD!!!! You're driving yourself crazy over something you do NOT have!! Get over it and put it to rest or think about seeing someone for your psychi...
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Ask your doc for a type specific IgG blood test, and put it to rest, finally.
Your symptoms don't sound like herpes, and you wouldn't get anything under your arms from herpes. Cheilitis is also common, and I'd trust your doc on that one.
AJ
Your symptoms don't sound like herpes, and you wouldn't get anything under your arms from herpes. Cheilitis is also common, and I'd trust your doc on that one.
AJ
Oh, and we're not the doctors on this forum. We're just your standard run-of-the-mill Interwebs yahoos.
"Nearly a year ago?" Jesus. And you're still worried?
I don't think your post is long enough. We definitely need a few more chapters here. Yikes. To be honest, I stopped reading after about the 5th line - it's too frigging long. It would have taken me less time to read "War and Peace."
For starters, you you don't even know if the partner in question had herpes.
The likelihood that you were already infected with type 1 (oral cold sores) before seeing this woman is high. Get a blood test if you are concerned.
I don't think your post is long enough. We definitely need a few more chapters here. Yikes. To be honest, I stopped reading after about the 5th line - it's too frigging long. It would have taken me less time to read "War and Peace."
For starters, you you don't even know if the partner in question had herpes.
The likelihood that you were already infected with type 1 (oral cold sores) before seeing this woman is high. Get a blood test if you are concerned.
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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.
