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Risk of Acquisition
Hello, looking for a risk of transmission/acquisition.
Intercourse with females (vaginal), I am a male. Their status unknown due to normal advice to get checked only when symptoms are present and to not get blood tested.
100 % Condom protected, no slippage or breakage, covered as far down shaft as possible.
No obvious lesions visible on female (textbook redness, blisters, etc).
No obvious symptoms on myself other than rashes that often come and go within 2-3 days, no pain, and currently a flesh coloured, painless, abnormal skin tesxture (bumpy and irregular) on back side of penis toward the tip. Also pimples on both thighs, inner and outer, often painless and present for over 3 weeks, most common in winter
What is the likelihood that this is herpes based on the above information? If herpes was acquired using a condom, where would it likely present itself?
Intercourse with females (vaginal), I am a male. Their status unknown due to normal advice to get checked only when symptoms are present and to not get blood tested.
100 % Condom protected, no slippage or breakage, covered as far down shaft as possible.
No obvious lesions visible on female (textbook redness, blisters, etc).
No obvious symptoms on myself other than rashes that often come and go within 2-3 days, no pain, and currently a flesh coloured, painless, abnormal skin tesxture (bumpy and irregular) on back side of penis toward the tip. Also pimples on both thighs, inner and outer, often painless and present for over 3 weeks, most common in winter
What is the likelihood that this is herpes based on the above information? If herpes was acquired using a condom, where would it likely present itself?
Usually if you are working that hard to see things it's not herpes. You already seem to have some skin issues from the sounds of things. No reason to suspect herpes though certainly I support getting tested periodically with the igg blood tests just to keep an eye on things. I know from personal experience that it's better to fiind out you have it from a blood test than from after you've transmitted it to a partner - at least it has to be that's for sure.
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Thanks for the advice. There have been multiple encounters and yes with multiple partners. They have tested negative for other STIs (and I'm clean for everything else), and when I mean multiple I say this because I've never had any severe symptoms and am thus I'm considering my entire sexual history since I first became sexually active.
Lesion is slightly raised but generally flat, when I stretch the skin it sits on there is little/no pain and the lesions practically disappear. Would anyone who experiences outbreaks severe or mild (I'm sure many have mild as they are to be more common) be able to attest to whether this even remotely fits what is termed "mild" symptoms of HSV2. Pics of mild outbreaks are hard to find, severe outbreak pictures seem to outnumber the world population of 6 billion!!!
Thanks again everyone. I really appreciate your help. My doc is not easy to get a hold of, however, I had it checked by a doctor/MHP at my regional STD department a week ago, exact. 7 days (looked roughly the same except maybe a little more pronounced) and they said with confidence that it was not herpes...she was prepared to swab it if it was something benign or ambiguous but said there was no need. Logically, rationally, the worrying should stop...but of course there's all the info that says visual diagnoses are unpredictable and that doctors are often misinformed!
Lesion is slightly raised but generally flat, when I stretch the skin it sits on there is little/no pain and the lesions practically disappear. Would anyone who experiences outbreaks severe or mild (I'm sure many have mild as they are to be more common) be able to attest to whether this even remotely fits what is termed "mild" symptoms of HSV2. Pics of mild outbreaks are hard to find, severe outbreak pictures seem to outnumber the world population of 6 billion!!!
Thanks again everyone. I really appreciate your help. My doc is not easy to get a hold of, however, I had it checked by a doctor/MHP at my regional STD department a week ago, exact. 7 days (looked roughly the same except maybe a little more pronounced) and they said with confidence that it was not herpes...she was prepared to swab it if it was something benign or ambiguous but said there was no need. Logically, rationally, the worrying should stop...but of course there's all the info that says visual diagnoses are unpredictable and that doctors are often misinformed!
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It doesn't sound like herpes, and your chances of getting it from a protected encounter are very low.
It can present anywhere, as herpes infects nerve groups. You might have a sore at the point of infection, but that's not always the case.
If you haven't seen your doc to get this checked, you should.
AJ
It can present anywhere, as herpes infects nerve groups. You might have a sore at the point of infection, but that's not always the case.
If you haven't seen your doc to get this checked, you should.
AJ
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Herpes spreads by oral, vaginal and anal sex.
Herpes sores blister, then burst, scab and heal.
STIs are the most common cause of genital sores.
Millions of people are diagnosed with STDs in the U.S. each year.
STDs can't be transmitted by casual contact, like hugging or touching.
Syphilis is an STD that is transmitted by oral, genital and anal sex.
