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Is this Herpes?
Hello,
I think I may have Herpes but I can't visit a doctor til Monday. I'm also freaking out because I am in Japan, where the attitude to STDs is very backwards and few people speak English, so I am very nervous about what the Ob-Gyn might say/if she'll give the same advice or do the same tests as they would in England. Hence me wanting your opinion! :)
I had unprotected sex on 06/07 Nov. The guy believed he was clean (and still does despite me telling him my concerns).
I started feeling ill at the weekend. I believe this was mainly dizziness/headachey kinda ill which I put down to my period.
On Tuesday my throat started to feel weird, like it often does before the onset of an infection and on Wednesday my throat was starting to be sore and swollen and I had a fever.
However on Wednesday I also noticed a cluster of sores on the inside of my left outer labia near to my clit. I have 7 sores there, then 2 more a bit further across on my left inner labia. These don't itch or burn and are painless when im not prodding at them. They are like small red open sores.
This is what lead me to suspect Herpes. Especially when I read that my fluey symptoms could actually be Herpes symptoms too.
Today my fever seems to have gone. Although I’m hot and clammy occasionally. However my throat has got worse and I have the horrible taste in my mouth/bad breath and pain swallowing which I usually get with throat infections. The sores haven't changed since I discovered them - still no pain, itching, discharge, pain urinating. And they still look like open sores as opposed to the pimples and blisters i've read about.
So, what do you think? Does it sound like Herpes? Do you think the fluey symptoms are related or just coincidental?
I know you can catch Herpes from someone with no symptoms but how likely is it to get Herpes from someone who has never had an outbreak or any symptoms at all?
I think I may have Herpes but I can't visit a doctor til Monday. I'm also freaking out because I am in Japan, where the attitude to STDs is very backwards and few people speak English, so I am very nervous about what the Ob-Gyn might say/if she'll give the same advice or do the same tests as they would in England. Hence me wanting your opinion! :)
I had unprotected sex on 06/07 Nov. The guy believed he was clean (and still does despite me telling him my concerns).
I started feeling ill at the weekend. I believe this was mainly dizziness/headachey kinda ill which I put down to my period.
On Tuesday my throat started to feel weird, like it often does before the onset of an infection and on Wednesday my throat was starting to be sore and swollen and I had a fever.
However on Wednesday I also noticed a cluster of sores on the inside of my left outer labia near to my clit. I have 7 sores there, then 2 more a bit further across on my left inner labia. These don't itch or burn and are painless when im not prodding at them. They are like small red open sores.
This is what lead me to suspect Herpes. Especially when I read that my fluey symptoms could actually be Herpes symptoms too.
Today my fever seems to have gone. Although I’m hot and clammy occasionally. However my throat has got worse and I have the horrible taste in my mouth/bad breath and pain swallowing which I usually get with throat infections. The sores haven't changed since I discovered them - still no pain, itching, discharge, pain urinating. And they still look like open sores as opposed to the pimples and blisters i've read about.
So, what do you think? Does it sound like Herpes? Do you think the fluey symptoms are related or just coincidental?
I know you can catch Herpes from someone with no symptoms but how likely is it to get Herpes from someone who has never had an outbreak or any symptoms at all?
I know it would have been better to be seen today :/ Unfortunately the only English speaking ob-gyns in the area that I could find were booked up until Nov 28th and Dec 10th. When i rang for an emergency appointment the soonest they'd possibly see me is Monday, no matter how much i stressed the urgency :/
I mean, you need to bear in mind that I am in a country that doesn't really believe it gets STDs and where abortion is still a pretty common contraceptive method. I believe about 40% of people use condoms regularly here and pill/implant type methods are used by less than 4%.
So i dont think the doctors quite understand the urgency. I mean how could it possibly be Herpes? :/ That's why I'm so scared that they won't even test me and will just brush it off as something else.
You can go to hospitals as walk-in I believe, but I'd need someone to interpret for me, which would be pretty awkward and god knows who I'd ask. And then I wouldn't be seeing a specialist Ob-Gyn so i don't know how useful that would be.
I mean, you need to bear in mind that I am in a country that doesn't really believe it gets STDs and where abortion is still a pretty common contraceptive method. I believe about 40% of people use condoms regularly here and pill/implant type methods are used by less than 4%.
So i dont think the doctors quite understand the urgency. I mean how could it possibly be Herpes? :/ That's why I'm so scared that they won't even test me and will just brush it off as something else.
You can go to hospitals as walk-in I believe, but I'd need someone to interpret for me, which would be pretty awkward and god knows who I'd ask. And then I wouldn't be seeing a specialist Ob-Gyn so i don't know how useful that would be.
it's best to be seen today if at all possible instead of monday. any walk in clinics you can be seen at?
grace
grace
Thank you!
That is why i am worried that Monday might be too late. But no matter how much I tried to communicate in my bad japanese that it was an emergency and I needed to be seen asap, the woman insisted they were full. Even on Monday I'm just dropping in and I've been told i'll have to wait at least an hour to be seen :/
Although the sores don't look to be healing at all yet so i guess there's hope they'll still be "swabbable".
The guy I slept with has never has any STI symptoms and believes he's clean but i guess he has to be carrying it unknowingly if i do end up having it.
Hope the Ob-Gyn knows for sure, and about the fluey stuff too. Noticed white spots on my tonsils now, plus mouth ulcers and swollen gums.
Whole damn body is falling apart :p
That is why i am worried that Monday might be too late. But no matter how much I tried to communicate in my bad japanese that it was an emergency and I needed to be seen asap, the woman insisted they were full. Even on Monday I'm just dropping in and I've been told i'll have to wait at least an hour to be seen :/
Although the sores don't look to be healing at all yet so i guess there's hope they'll still be "swabbable".
The guy I slept with has never has any STI symptoms and believes he's clean but i guess he has to be carrying it unknowingly if i do end up having it.
Hope the Ob-Gyn knows for sure, and about the fluey stuff too. Noticed white spots on my tonsils now, plus mouth ulcers and swollen gums.
Whole damn body is falling apart :p
You do have some symptoms that resemble herpes, but it really could be something completely unrelated to herpes. It is best to visit your doctor and get a culture done. Since you can't visit your doctor until Monday, your potential herpes lesions might not be able to provide accurate culture results. However, if you do develop more herpes lesions on Saturday/Sunday get them swabbed Monday, and you'll know whether you have this or not.
If you do not get any more sores then you can take a blood test. However, blood tests can take a while to detect herpes, and usually after three months they will detect antibodies. In short, a blood test really isn't going to provide you with much clarity. It's extremely difficult to diagnose herpes visually because of the diversity of symptoms that patients exhibit.
Asymptomatic shedding of HSV-2 occurs around 20% of the time although it differs from person to person. You can get herpes from a person with no symptoms, but you are more likely to get it when symptoms are present in most cases. I can't give you a percentage of how likely it is to get it from someone, but if he's on antivirals then the shedding reduces drastically.
Your flu symptoms could be either coincidential or herpes related; there's no way for me to tell, and it's best for you to visit your OB-GYN to arrive at a conclusive diagnosis.
If you do not get any more sores then you can take a blood test. However, blood tests can take a while to detect herpes, and usually after three months they will detect antibodies. In short, a blood test really isn't going to provide you with much clarity. It's extremely difficult to diagnose herpes visually because of the diversity of symptoms that patients exhibit.
Asymptomatic shedding of HSV-2 occurs around 20% of the time although it differs from person to person. You can get herpes from a person with no symptoms, but you are more likely to get it when symptoms are present in most cases. I can't give you a percentage of how likely it is to get it from someone, but if he's on antivirals then the shedding reduces drastically.
Your flu symptoms could be either coincidential or herpes related; there's no way for me to tell, and it's best for you to visit your OB-GYN to arrive at a conclusive diagnosis.
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