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Is this a recurrence or a new infection?

Ok so on 2/23/18 I decided to go to the strip club.  I got a lap dance from a stripper and now I’m somewhat concerned about exposure to a new hsv infection.  A little background info - I’ve had oral hsv1 since I was a kid, and I have had genital hsv1 since November of 2008.  My first ob from ghsv1 happened about 2-3 weeks after exposure and almost went unnoticed.  I didn’t have any prodrome, swollen lymph nodes or fever.  All I felt was a small painful pimple about 1 inch above and to the left of my penis shaft.( it was protected sex).   About 2-3 after this my lymph nodes in my neck were very swollen and painful to the touch and few days after that my lymph nodes on both sides of groin became very swollen and painful.  It woke me up at night.  It was probably a day or two after that I felt an extremely painful feeling slighty to the right of the original pimple ob. The feeling was deep under the surface of my skin.  This made me realize it was more than just a pimple. This feeling was then followed by a raised red itchy rash about the size of a dime, then a pimple like blister and eventually it scabbed and healed over.  That was my first and only outbreak.  For probably about a i would feel a slight tingle or itch around my penis, but nothing crazy.

Anyway fast forward to now.  So like I said I went to a strip club and I got a lap dance.  I’m nervous about contracting any other stds so I wore a condom.  I also had my underwear on and my pants were unbuttoned.  About two inches of the top of my penis was out of my underwear but protected by the condom.  The stripper grinded pretty hard and vigorously for about 5-7 minutes her butt was facing me.  Reverse cowgirl.  Around the last minute of the dance the stripper pulled my pants and underwear down to my thighs exposing my penis.  She continued with the lap dance for about a minute before I told her to stop.  She had a mesh see through body suit on and also a thong, the material was thick, not like a g string.  

The only parts of her bare skin that touched mine were her butt, my penis was in between her crack.  So her butt cheeks touched the areas around my penis and my inner thighs I’m assuming her vagina touched the lower part of my shaft and testicles, but her vagina was covered by her body suit and thong.

The next day, 2/24/18, my genital area became itchy.  It was about 12-18 hours afterwards.  It wasn’t localized to a specific part, just some areas more than others.  This lasted about 3-4 days and the itchiness then was only around the left side of my penis, where the first pimple like ob appeared 10 years ago.  The itchiness continued and there was some slight pain under the skin, but nothing nearly as close as my first outbreak.  A rash or redness never appeared.  No lesión ever appeared.  The itchiness and slight pain lasted until yesterday, 3/8/18.  So it was about 12 days of what could be compared to a mild prodrome, no obs or rash.  I started to feel around for my groin lymph nodes and a  node along the left pelvic muscle crease was barely inflamed and slighty sore/painful it was hard to tell if it was the muscle or the node, but when I felt the right side I couldn’t feel the same thing in the muscle so I’m assuming it was a node.  About a year ago my right groin node became really inflamed to the point I thought it was a hernia, it was painful to the touch and was large enough to create a bulge.  Anyway my doctor treated it with antibiotics.  It was enlarged due to two tick bites on my right lower back, around the waistline.  

The left node that I felt was not even close to the one caused by the tick bites.  

Finally to my question, do my symptoms of a 12 day prodrome sound like a mild outbreak of my ghsv1 or could this be a new possible infection of ghsv2?  I know my exposure would be considered low risk for a new infection.  Also the timeline of my symptoms(12-18 hours afterwards) would seem to be too quick for a new infection.  

I’m only concerned because I’ve read that hsv can occur on someone’s butt and close to the anus.  Her butt  is the only skin to skin contact I had.  I’m also worried about ghsv2 because I read that some people have very mild first outbreaks with some symptoms going unnoticed so I’m hoping that’s not what I’m experiencing. I also read that ppl with previous hsv infections may not have as a severe ob.  

The only thing thats keeping me calm is the fact that symptoms occurred rather quickly and that it was a somewhat low rush exposure.  

I was tested last year and the only thing that came back positive was hsv1.

Sorry for such a long post/question but I wanted to include all info.  Any insight is greatly appreciated.

Thanks

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