HSV 1 and 2 Risk

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Recently, I had a zit on my lip (red raised, overnight white head that popped hard white fluid), went away very quickly, but I did peel skin off it after my acne cream dried it out. For five days, I could feel tingling on that side of my lip, but nothing has appeared. Would a cold sore act like this?

Then my other fear resides with an ingrown hair. I had a typical small bump with an ingrown hair that I had to kind of dig out with tweezer. It bled like normal, but it has been two days and it almost looks like a very tiny blister. I feel like they generally clear more easily that this. Is this common, or should I be concerned?

So, in summary, do you think I need to take a trip to the doctor for either of this things? Is a test after 10.5 weeks exposure reliable enough?

[Terri Warren, RN, Adult Nurse Practitioner]

No, a cold sore would behave differently than that, for sure.

Terri

[abcdef1234jj]

Thanks for the comments.  Is it safe to assume that one would not "miss" a blister on your lips? Today I saw two dry raised spots in the middle of my upper lip (where the upper and lower lip meet) and I pulled them off, with nothing being revealed there. A cold sore wouldn't behave like that would it?

I will get tested down the road for both to ease my mind, but I just wanted your perspective on this.  Thanks again.  

[Terri Warren, RN, Adult Nurse Practitioner]

I think the skin on the lip was irritated by the pimple as well as the pubic hair pulling irritated the groin area.  If the "very tiny blister" is in the immediate location of the pubic hair that you removed, I'm not worried about that.  I honestly don't think a trip to the doctor is necessary.  I'm not clear what they would do at this point, other than another antibody test if you have no other symptoms.  You could retest when 4 months have passed, but not because these symptoms sound like herpes, but because you may want final closure on this issue.  Obviously , if you do get a real blister or set of blisters either orally or genitally, you would want to go right in and have those swab tested with PCR.

Terri