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Is it Herpes or Anxiety?
A little background on me:
I'm a 25 year old male, and I'm a clinically declared hypochondriac. It started when I was 15 and I thought I had a heart attack, and everything went downhill from there. I would always wash my hands with alcohol after touching anything (so much that, over time, I developed skin asthma.), I would spray my bed every night with isopropyl, I would dab the oil off my pizza and the list goes on. I went to therapy and counseling for all this around 5 years ago. Til this day, I do have some instances of overthinking and my anxiety getting the best of me.
Story:
(This is a little NSFW, so please bare with me.)
I went to a massage parlor last wednesday (05/03), I'll try not to go into too much detail, but the upper part of her pubic region rubbed across the shaft of my penis. There was no penetration, and no swapping of bodily fluids. After the massage, I quickly doused my private region with isopropyl alcohol, and a hot towel wipe, and with isopropyl again. (The parlor has a very strict no penetration policy. I also called the therapist, asking her if she had any cuts, viruses and infections. All which she said no to.)
This was when my anxiety and paranoia came in. I looked at the symptoms of Herpes, and I did not experience any of it. However, as I was reading more and more into it, I would start "feeling" several of the symptoms. It has been 5 days since the encounter, and I only experienced the "tingling" sensation, but not on my genitals, rather along both my thighs (which did not come into contact.) The strange thing is, I would only feel the tingling if I was sitting or lying down. If I was standing up, the sensation would be gone. Or I was talking to someone, playing video games, or doing any activity, there would be no sensation.
I do not exhibit any other symptoms (fever, flu-like symptoms, nausea, painful urinations, blisters or redness and sensitivity around my genitals). Which makes me wonder, is this my mind playing with me? I knew from before doing an "internet diagnosis" is literally one of the worst things ever. I'm at the point where even the hair follicles along the shaft of my penis concerns me (even though I know it's been there since before the encounter.)
Are there any tips, and suggestions so that I may have peace of mind? A blood test?
I'm a 25 year old male, and I'm a clinically declared hypochondriac. It started when I was 15 and I thought I had a heart attack, and everything went downhill from there. I would always wash my hands with alcohol after touching anything (so much that, over time, I developed skin asthma.), I would spray my bed every night with isopropyl, I would dab the oil off my pizza and the list goes on. I went to therapy and counseling for all this around 5 years ago. Til this day, I do have some instances of overthinking and my anxiety getting the best of me.
Story:
(This is a little NSFW, so please bare with me.)
I went to a massage parlor last wednesday (05/03), I'll try not to go into too much detail, but the upper part of her pubic region rubbed across the shaft of my penis. There was no penetration, and no swapping of bodily fluids. After the massage, I quickly doused my private region with isopropyl alcohol, and a hot towel wipe, and with isopropyl again. (The parlor has a very strict no penetration policy. I also called the therapist, asking her if she had any cuts, viruses and infections. All which she said no to.)
This was when my anxiety and paranoia came in. I looked at the symptoms of Herpes, and I did not experience any of it. However, as I was reading more and more into it, I would start "feeling" several of the symptoms. It has been 5 days since the encounter, and I only experienced the "tingling" sensation, but not on my genitals, rather along both my thighs (which did not come into contact.) The strange thing is, I would only feel the tingling if I was sitting or lying down. If I was standing up, the sensation would be gone. Or I was talking to someone, playing video games, or doing any activity, there would be no sensation.
I do not exhibit any other symptoms (fever, flu-like symptoms, nausea, painful urinations, blisters or redness and sensitivity around my genitals). Which makes me wonder, is this my mind playing with me? I knew from before doing an "internet diagnosis" is literally one of the worst things ever. I'm at the point where even the hair follicles along the shaft of my penis concerns me (even though I know it's been there since before the encounter.)
Are there any tips, and suggestions so that I may have peace of mind? A blood test?
No testing is necessary as you were not at risk from hsv or any std for that matter. You can breathe easy. You are just fine. Oh and by the way, tingling is not a symptom of a primary infection or outbreak.
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