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Possible herpes...Does the timeline sound too fast? And what does my risk look like?

First off, I am a male. On Friday Dec 8th at around 4 pm I shaved my genital region. At around 3 am on Sat Dec 9th I received unprotected oral sex, and again at around 6 am from a female with no indicators of oral herpes (cold sores, etc.) By about early morning Sunday the 10th(1 am ish) I was feeling itchy in that region, but not more than I usually do around that time period after having totally shaved my genital region. Sunday the 10th at around noon I was noticing red bumps, and what looked like the beginning of pimples around the bottom of my shaft, and red spots (like shaving irritation) in the pubic region above my shaft and below my belly button. By Monday morning (the 11th) I would say there were three developed enough to where I could attempt to pop them. Two of them felt very much like a pimple would (there was a mass under the skin that you could squeeze), and when I squeezed them whitish/yellowish pus came out the way it would on a pimple. However, on one of them I was able to more or less scratch it off without squeezing. They began to scab up almost within hours after me popping them. However, Tuesday morning (the 12th) I was able to see more white build-up under the skin and under the scab of the biggest one. I was able to pop that one again through the scab. All but one of these has a hair associated with it; i.e. either is on a follicle or very very near one. After tuesday morning when I was able to once again pop a mass of white pus that I could feel under the skin through the scab, I was fairly confident that it was not herpes because that sounded very atypical from what I had been reading about the way herpes lesions typically behave. It seemed that a herpes lesion would not redevelop a sub surface mass of white pus that would take effort to pop through a scab. However, today (wednesday the 13th) I developed very slight cold/flu like symptoms (chills/fatigue). Also, the area is totally scabbed now with nothing left to pop, and there is a white crust surrounding the areas I did pop. It looked uncannily like the scabbed areas of herpes, so I got anxious again. Also, as far as the flu-like symptoms, I had been feeling sick last weekend due to lack of sleep, but I was beginning to catch up on sleep again and felt fine again. Tuesday night however I didnt get much sleep and it was wednesday I felt sick again. Throughout all this, the red bumps between my shaft and belly button never actually developed into any kind of pimple or lesion, and just sort of faded though they are still there. I have seen them before after shaving that area. After all that background, my questions are:

1) Given how quickly these symptoms seemed to develop, and the way they originally seemed to behave like a pimple/razor burn combination, do you think I could have herpes?
2) Just exactly how unlikely is it to receive genital herpes from two single unprotected oral encounters lasting probably 5 to ten minutes each?

Thank you in advance to anyone with the knowledge to help m eout!
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15249123 tn?1478652475
Really to fast to be hsv and it surely doesn't sound like herpes.
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