Herpes/Mono

[Needhelp4825]

Hi. I'm hoping I can get some answers. About a month ago, I started getting fevers. I had no other symptoms other than having the fevers and I was really tired. These fevers went on for about a week and I finally went to the dr. He told me that it was a virus of some kind and that I had developed a UTI. He gave me meds for the UTI but nothing for this "virus". A couple days later, I noticed that it started hurting "down there" and I just thought I had gotten a yeast infection from the antibiotic for my UTI. It got to the point to where it hurt to walk and I could feel sores Down there. I ended up going to the ER and she told me it was Herpes. A few minutes later, she came back and told me that I had mono. I was point on all sorts of meds and in a couple days I was all cleared up down there and about a week later, I got my appetite back and have my strength back. My question is, could I have been misdiagnosed with Herpes? I have only been with one guy and he says that he got blood work done and is negative for any stds. But he's the only one I've been with so how do I have it? Could he of had mono and I didn't know it, do oral sex on me and that could be what caused sores and for it to hurt down there?

[gracefromHHP]

you don't need an obvious cold sore present to transmit hsv1 . it's still active in between obvious cold sores/fever blisters.

when you are ready to start dating again, just ask a partner to get full std testing and share results with each other. that way there's no doubting who was tested for what and it takes the worry out of most std's if it's a committed monogamous relationship. you can't cover the hpv bases but it helps with everything else. hsv1 genitally hardly sheds at all and your hsv1 oral infection would be the issue, not a hsv1 genital infection.

[Needhelp4825]

I'm just not educated enough. If I am HSV2 -, how did I get genital HSV 1? Did my ex bf give it to me through oral if he had a fever blister at the time? I don't think he did but I'm not sure. Regardless, I will get re-tested in 3 months. Im not dealing with this very well. I'm severely depressed. I know that I should be happy that its just Herpes and not HIV or something worse. It's just hard because I'm in the "why me" stage. I have only been with one guy my entire life and this is what I got. It just scares me to death to start dating again.

[gracefromHHP]

good grief - no wonder your provider was having a hard time figuring out what your results are. that's a really odd way to report all those values.  thank you for taking the time to post that.  I wasn't sure rereading your posts if your provider had read it all properly or not.

mono when you are not a teenager will wipe you out :(

follow up with the hsv2 igg again just to be sure or wait until you have a recurrence genitally and get it cultured - either is fine. until then I'd assume you do have bad luck and contracted hsv1 genitally.  

[Needhelp4825]

I just think it's weird that I had a fever blister on my mouth at the same time. The Mono just completely wiped me out. I've also been taking Valtrex 1gm daily every since I came home from the ER.

[Needhelp4825]

Grace, I uploaded it under photos. Thank you.

[gracefromHHP]

nope, didn't give it to yourself.  not at all easy to do.

you have your actual lesion culture results at home right? if so, any chance you can take a picture of them to post under the photo part of your profile for me to look at? rereading your whole story this morning made me wonder if I needed to look at that. just make sure in what you post, you haven't included any person info like medical record number or name etc.