Unkown virus

[Matt238]

Hello I had sexual relations protected with a massage girl in California. Shortly after 3 days I started experiencing symptoms, need to urinate and redness in meatus of penis along with redness and irritation in eyes. By the end of that week I had tingling all over boxer short area The following week I had trouble walking due to the pain and tingling, this eventually turned into burning in the urethra and scrotum lasting two to three additional weeks. No noticeable blisters ever formed.I also suffered nerve like pain from buttock down back of right leg.

I am now left with after 5 months from this incident pelvic pain,sciatica type pain, itching and burning on scrotum from time to time but less severe than before. I also wake with watery eyes, sinus congestion, white stuff on corners of mouth every day since exposure. I have taken multiple STD panels for every STD HIV, syphilis, goon, chylmedia, hep, and herpes at 2 weeks, 6 weeks and 3 months all neg. I even followed up with an HIV and syphilis at 4.5 months and was neg.

I did receive treatment for the possible bacterial infections STD given z pack, doxy, ofoflax, uribel and something for trich.

My neuro said it's probably a unknown virus. I have been on a few rounds of antivirals for herpes just to see if there is a reaction, the antivirals seem to help the symptoms but herpes test was neg.

I am thinking this maybe undetected herpes infection accompany with a fungal overgrowth due to excess antibiotics.

Also my CBC came back normal but WBC was in the low range.

Any idea what this is? Please help.  

[mesickwhy]

Get a fungal urine culture the fungus on the skin and in your mouth prob got on your hands & spread in your urithra and kidney that what happened to me..still waiting on my appt to test it mine I got on my foot then my hand then my crotch had all the same symptoms and now like you I have pain pressure in my kidneys the thing about fungus you  wash it off with soap or alcohol and if you have it in one part of body it spreads all over when you touch such as washing or applying lotions I itch behind my ears skin too and my armpit had burning itch on my toe for a year until I stopped using latex glove to wash my infected foot now my hand itch and the ears armpit and pubic area with kidney pain pressure I'm going to dermatologist to do scraping of my skin on the foot to test for fungal culture since I read that urine    might not show cause it takes weeks to grow it and they discard the specimen of urine after a week

[heywoodjabme]

Glad you are doing better.  Thought I would also post an update.

My general health is good, but I still have a couple of symptoms white tongue (comes and goes a bit, but always there) as well as itch.  The itch is mainly in the anal/tailbone area, but also seems to be migrating up my back and to my arms.

The symptoms seem to fade at times, but come on at others.  Almost on a monthly cycle.  The tongue issue I never notice, until I feel the itch come on, and then I check my tongue and it is somewhat white.

All my other symptoms have largely gone away, and for the most part I'm fine.  Just every 3-4 weeks I get itch that lasts a week or so and then fades (never completely but almost completely).

I wonder if I have some sort of scabies, mites or bed bugs.... or maybe lyme disease.

[mkh9]

Glad to hear you are doing well! Thanks for keeping us posted.
mkh9

[Rocko2231]

Oh and for the record, my health has gotten a lot better since my sexual encounter that happened a year and a half ago.

[john280]

Hi im going through the same i was tested at 12.5 weeks and 13 weeks through oral sex male to male ive been going crazy tested negative at 3 clinics for sll stds hiv is still hanging over me and i think im infecting everyone

[Rocko2231]

Although I do not post updates anymore on my situation, I liked to come to this thread once in a while to look up any new info that might of been provided...that is until a "spam" post from uduemi got here....sad.

[JohnXY]

Most of the cases described in this thread match enterovirus coxcackie B. This virus is spread through saliva and is not that easy to detect by standard routine tests.because after first two weeks it migrates from blood to cells and there is only tiny amount of virus present in blood stream. Antobodies usually disappear after several months. There are few labs having a specific tests for chronic enteroviruses, one of them ARUP in Texas. China HIV-like virus is most probably also enterovirus or echovirus and has nothinbg to do with HIV.

There is no cure for enterovirus. Immune system of most healthy people normaly clears the virus or better say makes it dormant within 2-3 weeks. How well one deals with the virus depends on whether the immune system is in a state of TH1 or TH2 activation. If it becomes chronic the options are usually limited. About 20 years ago, antiviral drug pleconaril specifically developed to fight enteroviruses were introduced. But the results are mixed and some countries refused to approve the drug. It is worth to try oxymatrine, which is a natural herb that helps against enteroviruses but only selective number of people (40%-50%( are successful.