Hello,
I'm new here, im male, 25 years old, never had any sexual issues and I recently had a sexual encounter with a new partner after a long term relationship.
We had a night together where she performed oral on me and we kissed etc, then a couple weeks later we got back together and had protected vaginal sex, there was no oral as she he had a cold sore so ensures nothing would transfer.
However reading it states that you can have herpes in both the mouth and genitals depending on how you acquired it. Around 4/5 days after the protected sex encounter I developed burning/itching/tingling in the pubic area and scrotum, I've never had a feeling like this before and it came on suddenly. I never really checked for lesions at the time as I didn't know what the cause could be, but there was never anything obvious that was painful, the symptoms continued for weeks without any obvious lesion but it does state online that there isn't always a lesion present? I have burning pains in my buttocks which reading online says this could be the virus trying to reactivate or damage the nerves?
I'm worried I may have contracted the virus as I've tested negative for everything else at the GUM, I spoke to partner and she was rather uneducated saying it only affects the mouth, however she did say she's never had problems down in the genitals just cold sores when she goes on the sun beds but I don't know if she's just never noticed any issues down there due to her uneducation.
I have asked her to do an IGG test and she's agreed so this should provide some answers.
I'm concerned she's got HSV2 and passed it on genitally as I know this can happen even with a condom