I am 22 year old man. a little over a month ago month ago I began feeling a painful itchy sensation when i urinated. i had unprotected sex a few days prior so i was very concerned. I went to my doctor and took urine test and blood test which came back negative. my doctor then swabbed the inside of urethra and tested for genital herpies, the test came back positive for genital herpies simplex 1. he put on a 7 day dose of an antibiotic and gave me hydrocortisone cream to apply to my penis head to relieve irritation, after the 7 period of time the symptoms subsided but never disappeared 100%. earlier this week; about 3 weeks after i finished the initial dose of antibiotics i went back to doctors with the following symptoms, I have still been feeling a slight itchy sensation near the end of my penis shaft when urinating, the tip of my penis directly below the end of urethra has been itchy especially when rubbing against clothing also a fairly small pimple like bump has appeared on my shaft (I am unsure if this is due to my symptoms or something trivial just which is just increasing my paranoia). all these symptoms are like my initial symptoms i had about 5 weeks ago yet not nearly as bad. the doctor put me on another dose of the same 7 day antibiotics. I have also been using hydrocortisone cream again as a topical treatment on the tip of my penis head as to decrease irritation. I am always have been so careful when having sexual intercourse and usually wear condoms (besides the intoxicated mistake which lead to all this). This has been stressing me out to unexplainable measures and it has been concerning on a daily basis for the last month, and I have a completely diminished sex drive. Was the treatment provided by my doctor appropriate? Should i go get a second diagnosis from another doctor? Is it normal that these symptoms are still present over a month after they initially appeared? Could something have been overlooked and further tests needed? Is there any additional treatment I should get to help me recover sooner? could the hydrocortisone cream be contributing to the irritation since i am applying it to the very tip of my urethra? How much longer should i expect these symptoms to be bothering me? I heard that herpies simplex 1 is much less virulent in the genital area and may never com back, is this true? if so why is taking so long to for the symptoms to go away? Once the symptoms are fully gone for awhile is safe to receive oral sex again (without a condom)? Looking far into the future since i am single as of right now, if i do find myself a consistent sexual partner what should i do, if the symptoms haven't arose again should i tell her about it? Will it ever be safe to have unprotected sex if i don't have any symptoms present?
- please help me wrap my head around what is going on, it my senior year of college and this is directly effecting my school work due to the constant stress it has caused me. I have basically isolated myself from everything fun and have been absolutely disgusted with myself for allowing this to happen. I really need a better explanation to why I am still experiencing symptoms, what to expect/do?
please help me out,
Thank you so much