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Please help me I'm worried
Hi grace I've been reading your posts a lot lately as I've become pretty concerned with my situation these past few weeks. So my girlfriend and I had used lube that my parents had in there drawer, never thought anything of it I've used it before. I've been dating her for two years and everything's been great. Until around 3 weeks after we used the lube we both noticed something wrong with ourselves. I had a small cut on the tip of my penis and her vagina was itchy and irritated with a cut on her labia. My scrotum has also been red and itchy for three weeks she's all better now. She went to her obgyn and the doctor said everything looks normal literally two days after she noticed something, then her swab test came back saying she had bacterial vaginitis and candida. I freaked out and went through my medicine cabinet and noticed herpes medicine acyclovir, I asked my mom and she said it's for her cold sores.. I've been really run down and achy these past few weeks too. I had a herpes test ran after my cut healed so only blood and it was negative but maybe too soon to tell. Just wondering if lube could prolong the life of herpes or what's wrong with us. I've read it can live from ten seconds to 8 hours outside the body, not sure what to believe.
The reason nobody knows is that no research has been done on "how long it can live off the body". Why not? Because nobody ever gets infected that way. Why do research on something that doesn't matter?
Now that I used it I don't think it would be that hard to catch the virus off the bottle. Say the lube was poured onto the infected person then rubbed around with their hand then the virus went from their hand to the bottle still in the slimy lube on the bottle, then I touched it then later and touched myself and my partner. It's really irritating how no one knows how long it can live off the body.
Now that I used it I don't think it would be that hard to catch the virus off the bottle. Say the lube was poured onto the infected person then rubbed around with their hand then the virus went from their hand to the bottle still in the slimy lube on the bottle, then I touched it then later and touched myself and my partner. It's really irritating how no one knows how long it can live off the body.
You need to stop thinking along these lines, there would be no known infections of the mechanism you describe. It is not relevant whether the virus can or cannot live in certain conditions but whether transmission is feasible given the number of steps that must be achieved for this to happen. In this case it is simply not feasible.
I was thinking lube on the hands then touching the bottle, basically is it even possible for the virus to live 12+ hours even in ideal conditions
But how would lube go from the tube, be rubbed into skin to attract virus then go back onto the tube? You're overthinking and making an assumption that there is even genital herpes.
The scrotum is not a place where herpes lesions typically occur and pretty much never as the only area they occur in an outbreak. The skin is too thick and skin nerves fewer.
It doesn't happen this way. People have symptoms 2-10 days after infection then it resolves usually within 3 weeks. Herpes leads the symptoms, not symptoms paving the way toward an outbreak.
The scrotum is not a place where herpes lesions typically occur and pretty much never as the only area they occur in an outbreak. The skin is too thick and skin nerves fewer.
It doesn't happen this way. People have symptoms 2-10 days after infection then it resolves usually within 3 weeks. Herpes leads the symptoms, not symptoms paving the way toward an outbreak.
I'm worrying if there was lube left on the container and if the virus could somehow live longer since the lube is moist. Then if I touched the container then touched myself or my partner.. But yeah have you ever heard of someone with herpes having their whole scrotum red and enflamed with a burning/itchy feeling. It's finally going away after three weeks but it's still sort of red, it's not like a flaky rash either just the skin itself. I've had pains in my lower left abdominal under my ribs and sharp pains in the top of my left butt, along with random muscle twitches when I lay down in my legs. I've also been very anxious and worried I'm wondering if these can lead to physical symptoms..
Lube comes out of the tube or container, it doesn't really go back in. There is no practical way there'd be any virus alive or dead in there... think about it.
Three weeks is too long for herpes symptoms to appear. You are dealing with a yeast infection and irritation here. It is way too late to be having related back aches that will not appear as a singular symptom.
Three weeks is too long for herpes symptoms to appear. You are dealing with a yeast infection and irritation here. It is way too late to be having related back aches that will not appear as a singular symptom.
I know the virus dies "as it dries" and if there were somehow some of the virus on the bottle with lube still on it or if it actually went in the bottle could it live longer? The lube couldn't have been used for 12+ hours because the owners were gone for that long at least. It's just weird how I'm now having back aches too.
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