Quick about me: I am a 44 y/o male who is a bit promiscuous, but I am generally safe (nothing but HPV in 25+ years of fooling around). Recently did have some unprotected sex with both a male and a female. Everyone said they were clean and everyone appeared clean.
Then I ended up having an itchy spot about where my liver is for several weeks where it would require me to scratch the area maybe 3-5 times a day. Not incessantly itchy, but enough to take notice (by the way, it still itches to this day, but to a lesser degree). My self diagnosis was that maybe I had scabies. I used tree oil, some sulfur-based cream and some benzoyl peroxide cream to no effect.
Midway through this experience (and immediately after a particularly long masturbation session), I had what appeared to be a herpes blister (a little redness marked with a white blister that appeared to be filled with fluid) on my penis head and another on my shaft. They were not in clusters, they did not pop, did not ooze, did not crust and within a week they were gone. I had no other symptoms (no painful urination, no discharge, nothing else). I assumed they were not herpes because of how they didn't behave like herpes.
Then I started to have a similar itch at the base of my scrotum. Thought nothing of it. After a few weeks, nothing. Then, several days after a particularly long masturbation session, this happened...
I had the same blisters on my penis head, shaft, scrotum and at the point where the scrotum meets the leg (left side), near the anus. Some were loners and a few in clusters. Then were I had been itching on my scrotum, it did represent itself like a blister, but grew to a little larger than a pea sized bump. The left side of my pubis was swollen and I was experiencing some discomfort especially from where they bump was... it was just tender. I thought I had a colony of scabies infecting me!
I went to the Urgent Care. God Bless the young Nurse Practitioner that saw me, but I don't think he was very experienced at this sort of thing. I don't know. But he looked only at the bump on my scrotum and determined I was wrong about my scabies diagnosis and said that I had Folliculitis and prescribed me steroid cream... I told him about the blister on my glans, but he said I could have Folliculitis there too. Naturally I went home to do my follow up research on the Internet and it appears to me that the glans has no hair follicles to infect.
I have been using the steroid cream and I believe it has been improving my condition a bit. After four days none of these blisters have popped, oozed or crusted... but they are shrinking with these tiny black dots in the middle. I was curious what these little black dots were and I scraped one only to find it was more of a scab than anything. From that one I opened up, no ooze came out, but now looks like a tiny little chancre. The steroid cream, after about 4 days has reduced to the bump to very little; however, it is still quite tender... and I think the swelling on my left pubis is reduced a bit.
Because it is impossible to get Folliculitis on the glans, I don't think that is the problem (or maybe it was a problem in conjunction with another issue). I think because of the swelling, there is an infection... bacterial or viral. Based on my symptoms, it is hard for me to think that it is bacterial (which, who knew, given the alternative one wishes they could gonorrhea, syphilis or chlamydia instead). The only thing that appears remotely bacterial is that once I opened up a blister, it appears somewhat similar to a chancre that you might see with syphilis. There are no other similar symptoms. So I lean more to it being viral. Everything's appearance at the onset, you might look and say herpes. But then everything starts to heal with no oozing, no crusting and within a week... gone. And, of course, there is the mystery of the black speck on each blister (as mentioned, presumably some sort of scab, or flake). And, with the steroid cream, I read that one would expect them to get worse, but they don't seem to be.
So, what have I got?!
I'd post a photo, but don't see where I can.