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[beezon]

Okay, I've asked previously about the likelyhood of developing genital herpes around the anus after one encounter with a girl of unknown status.  The encounter in question had no anal touching and I've never had any anal involvement of any kind (heterosexual male).  Shortly after the encounter, after a bout of diarrhea, I developed what felt like a fissure.  Being worried about herpes, I went to see my doctor (about a week after the pain settled down).  He dismissed it as a fissure and didn't want to do any blood testing.  He gave me an anti-fungal for itching and left it at that.

Since then, the itching has remained and it feels like there's "something" just inside.  Thinking it might be a hemorrhoid, I self medicated with an off the shelf cream for the last couple days that contained hydro-cortisone.    Since then, the area forward of my anus has taken to a "burning" sensation.  After defecating (painless), I stood up to the familiar "butt full of glass" feeling from 6 weeks ago.  This has me upset since that sensation is a symptom of anal herpes, and this time there's not the diarrhea to blame another fissure on.  I took as good a look as I could and couldn't see any kind of blister, but there's a limit to how close I can look.  One thing that my doctor told me earlier was if Herpes is present, hydro-cortisone would make it worse, and of course using hydro-cortisone this time coincided with the symptom.

I don't have any other symptoms, but having said that I'm suffering a head cold and have the aches and flu-like symptoms that come with that and could be hiding those symptoms from an outbreak.  My glands in my groin are not in any pain.  Again, there was absolutely zero anal contact and there has been no evidence of any herpes outbreak on my shaft or glans or elsewhere in my boxer-short region.  I know herpes can show up anally when there has been no anal touching, but how likely is that.

I am going to see my provider, I just wanted to see if anyone could tell me the likelyhood that I'm staring down a herpes infection or now.  I'm going to try and talk him into swabbing the pained area even if he doesn't see a blister, although I don't know if that's useful or not.

Thanks

[beezon]

Well, here's the outcome.  I went to see the doctor today who took a very close look at me.  He was 100% convinced it was hemmeroids.  I voiced my concerns to him, but he said there was no lesion to test and that there was no reason for doing an igg HSV test, that just about everyone will test positive for HSV 1 and that just testing negative for HSV 2 doesn't mean you don't have a genital infection.  

After describing my encounter, he again said that there was no possibility for an OB anally when there was nothing close to any anal touching during the encounter.  I've read differently on the net but have to bow to this guy's expertise, I mean, he is the expert here.

So here's hoping my butt feels better soon and I can stop being worried about it being some sneaky herpes infection.

[beezon]

Yeah, I know, and I'm going to go this morning I think (although I don't want to be that crazy person that goes every time I have a bit of chaffing).  What I hate about all this is the ambiguity about the virus, it has to be the worst to look up on the internet.  Basically it comes up saying that the virus can appear just about anywhere in the region and can look like just about anything (from a bug bite to full blown outbreak), and that a vast majority of the population has the virus.

What I'd like would be stats regarding transmission & sites of outbreaks vs. types of encounters.  Something to put all this in perspective, you know, things like "in an unprotected encounter with a person of unknown status with no visible outbreak, there's XX% chance of picking up HSV 2" type stuff.  Even stats explaining the percentage of adults having HSV 1 vs. HSV 2 wouldbe useful.

One last question, does there need to be a visable lesion for a swab to be an effective test, or can the area be just "irritated".  For instance, if I can't see a blister and my doctor can't see a blister, but the area in specific is specifically irritated, can that be swabbed with confidence of giving a proper answer?

Thanks.

[gracefromHHP]

Best thing to do is to be seen again and get this properly looked at.  

Get a herpes blood test too if you need the peace of mind.

grace