Hi everyone. Wish you a happy Friday.
So I've always had this weird marks at middle of my penis downside. I believe it was there since my late teenage or beginning of my twenties before even I had my first sexual encounter (I'm now in my mid thirties). I've tried all possible home remedies to treat it; banana peels, mandarin peels, you name it, it did get mitigated for a couple of hours or days and then back to its original shape; really tiny 3 or 4 dark-colored pimples close to each other, no pain or puss or whatever (not to confuse it with HPV, because I've had it before and got cured). I thought these formed as a result of excessive masturbation and rubbing, knowing that in most times I do it without any lubrication, I also has a really tiny scar right there. Later on, I started having sex from time to time (CSWs exclusively) all protected, vaginal and anal. Now that I have not come up with any clear answer to my situation, I decided to visit a dermatologist. He checked it carefully and then told me that it might be (Oral Herpes) (HSV1) and asked me to do a blood test, which I did and now I'm waiting for the result. Is it true that (HSV1) can transmit to genital area?
Genital hsv1 acts much like genital hsv2 does - you get recurrent outbreaks that last a week or two, then they go away, and you have no symptoms and then at some point later, you'll get another outbreak. In between those, you have no marks.
The blood test will only tell you if you have hsv1, and not where you have it. You could be positive, and have it orally, not genitally. Even if you have it genitally, I don't think that's what this mark is.
There is no STD that causes a mark to just be there for years with little changes. Also, you can't visually determine which strain of herpes is causing a herpes sore.
There is something called penile melanosis, which is just dark spots on the penis - https://www.healthline.com/health/penile-melanosis