Hello,
Thank you for your post and aplogies for the delay to reply. We have been extremely busy over the last week in Olympic London!
It is certainly very difficult to give you a possible diagnosis without seeing you. Symptoms could be consistent with some kind of urethritis, possibly NSU (non-specific urethritis). Your description is not typical of genital herpes, even though it is possible. Definitely no relationship between mouth and genital symptoms.
The best test to confirm HSV infection would be a PCR swab or urine test whilst having the symptoms. If negative, it would exclude this possibility. Your blood test does not mean much, simply because 80% of the population has antibodies against HSV-1 and that in itself would not prove that your symptoms are related to it. HSV-1 usually causes cold sores, but in many cases, no symptoms at all.
I hope this helps.
Best wishes,
Dr José
when i was diagnosed as positive, doctor told me to keep the report carefully because it would be difficult to test for HSV unless there are blisters where a culture will be taken from it and then it will be observed under microscope. blood test will most likely give false negative result.
i'm not sure if this will be helpful, just sharing my own experience.
Thanks for your advice sweettooth but I'll wait for a reply from a doctor as well. Could a doc please offer any advice??
Thank you for your reply doctor.
I asked for a swab test at the GUM clinic and was told they could not because there are no legions present. I also asked the GUM Dr about the strong positive reading. I was curious if this could be correct after testing at 10 weeks or whether the reading would have been from a much earlier infection. The doc said it could have been from any time in my life but that it could have been triggered again from the encounter in March. Does this sound plausible to you?
Something else I didn't mention on my origional post because of space limits. During the time between the 9th of march and now I developed an uncomfortable stinging sensation on pretty much the left side of my face. This was reduced considerably after appling a 1% hydrocortisone cream. However my eyebrow still remained whitish in areas and I can see lines in my skin, particularly right through my eyebrow, that appear to form shapes on the skin surface and my eyelid has a strange feeling to it. There is no redness to the centre of the shapes, just a white border which to me is very prominent. I seem to have these shapes at random places on my face as well inc on my chin and underneath the corner of my lips. I have asked my GP about them he doesn't seem to be able to see them as does any other of my family members. Do you think these could be a reaction to the hsv virus? I hae just become aware of erythema multiforme and became alarmed and related the above with this (I have two small red blotches on the side of my nose also which I related to erythema multiforme as well but aren't sure).
I still have some redness on the penis head which seems worse on some days than others but have noticed that it does improve when I apply bactroban which my gp prescribed.
Could you offer any advice doc.
Thanks,
JWT.
This is a very interesting Q to draw upon.
I got a similar one for Dr Garcia. I once had what most likely was a HSV 2 wart on my labia (about 2 days after intercourse). It healed within a week.
However, 4 months later, the HSV2 test came up negative. What does this mean?