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.  

[Matt238]

Got the thrush condition after antibiotics, which includes fungal infection scrotum, the mouth symptoms, folliculitis type skin pimples over back, watery eyes, sinus congestion, itchy scalp. Majority of which have gone away but still fighting it.
I did have sweating on palms but chalked it up to medication side effects I was taking, haven't had them since.
Get what feels like groin lymph node pains about 3-4 times a week. When this started I also had neck lymph node swelling for a day or so, but no groin lymph nodes.
Hopefully if we can't find out what this is at least maybe we can get passed it.

[raven123]

Any updates matt?

[Matt238]

Raven
Went to eye doc says the eye symptoms are chronic dry eye not virus, seems too convenient it started jut after exposure, am doing treatment as doc suggested and seems to help though. Sinuc congestion remains have been on natural yeast treatment helps it a bit. The other day and few other times I was outside got sweating doing physical stuff, the next day I get very itchy in groin area followed by soreness, happened twice. Thatseems to possibly be fungal I think or others have said similar as herpes symptoms.
Also had a pain flare up after sitting excessively long which lasted two days not a normal thing to happen after just sitting. This is probably due to the infection which caused nerve damage but like you wasn't as bad as initial symptoms so hopefully it's subsiding.
Let me know how your hep test goes. Good luck.

[collegeusername007]

I had 15x20 vision in both eyes before this infection and usually pretty white- since the infection I've seen deep red veins in my eyes, blurred vision and pain behind the eyes. Was diagnosed as dry-eye as well.

I have experienced thrush-like symptoms in my throat as well. Corners of mouth have felt tight when I open my mouth all the way, since day 1 of infection and never left.

My palms have also been very sweaty, bc I usually have very dry hands which will crack in the winter a bit from being so dry, and this whole summer they've been so moist I'm embarrassed to shake hands. My thighs, armpits and most of all groin have this same problem.

I have not tried neurotonin like you suggested but I looked it up and sounds like a great option. Codeine helps relieve pain the most for me, but it's not great for you long-term.

I've heard of many people testing negative repetitively for hsv1, which makes it even harder bc the doc really thinks you're crazy then, right!? definitely do a western- it's what we trust in my lab to detect extremely minute protein concentrations. I still haven't tested positive myself but I've only tried once now, and like i said my gf tested positive first time (doc's had never mentioned the idea of herpes at that point but I had an inclination from reading stuff online. refused to test and were going to have her pay out-of-pocket for it until the results came back.)

Recently I've had random shooting pains in some of my fingers as well which can only be described as nerve pain, mostly very fleeting sensations tho. Does your nerve pain vary considerably throughout the day or is it fairly constant? My testicular pain is constant but tip-of-penis pain varies quite a bit. I also have joint pain occasionally, and towards the beginning I was experiencing extreme muscle soreness and fatigue.

[collegeusername007]

Also, the redness in my scrotum has actually just disappeared for the first time in ~4 months of infection. I used anti-fungal powder. I feel like the thrush symptoms and oddly tenacious testicular rash were caused at least partially by some sort of entire-body yeast infection. I did a "spit test for yeast" if you look it up online and came up very positive, but I'm pretty dubious about the authority of this. Have you guys looked into it? I also cut my sugar intake substantially. I've had the most relief today that I've felt since infection, but the hyper-sensitive testicular pain is unchanged.

Do either of you suffer photophobia from this (light worsens symptoms). Both my gf and I do, though mine is more pronounced.

[Matt238]

I also had what may be described as post viral syndrome, fatigue and muscle soreness along with joint soreness mainly in extremities. I self diagnosed a slight systematic yeast infection as well due to my symptoms, docs deny it but I treated it naturally with threelac probiotics, neem, oil of oregano and whatever o/c yeast powder spray feminine yeast treatments I could find. Majority of testicular yeast is gone now, and scalp itch and foot itch as well. Still have some issues there time to time but not nearly as bad. Currently the sciatica pain which limits my sitting is the worst and my seek physiotherapy soon for it, along with the eye issues are the worst two conditions. I was healthy before this with no problems anywhere it's like my whole system is falling apart, very scary and even worse docs have no real answers or don't even acknowledge it.