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ephemeral colorless halo-shaped groove on middle glans

This question concerns the presence of a colorless (skin-colored) halo-shaped "groove" that goes around the middle or so of my glans.  Sometimes it is higher up sometimes lower down. Along with the presence of this groove my urethreal meatus is noticeably more distended "loose", wrinkled and achy...when it aches it causes my penis to react by subtly shrinking..it is not a good feeling.  The overall effect seems to be that the distal end of my glans in front of the "halo" groove is swollen ..so that the groove is actually the boundary between the distal swollen portion and the proximal non-swollen portion, however the "swollen" distal portion is not discolored and does not externally look irritated.  I have not been able to find any photographs or descriptions of the types of groove I have.  Sometimes the groove disappears, always with a semi- or full erection, and sometimes in addition to the circular halo groove there are one or two other grooves making my glans look segmented.  These grooves and urethral meatus irritation/inflammation began 2-3 days after unprotected heterosexual intercourse and have been persistent (daily) for the following 2.5 months.  There is no or very slight clear discharge (hard to differentiate from arousal fluid), and zero urination pain, no pain to the touch.  However there is almost constant dull sensitized feeling inside my distal urethra and the strange swollen quality to my distal glans and sometimes a slight pin-prick pain when squeezed.  Overall my penis does not feel normal..there is always a constant dull ache centered around the urethral meatus or slightly internal to that.   The color of my glans is normal and I have never had any noticeable lesions or nodules anywhere on my penis.  But my distal glans (glans tip) is noticeably strangely different in texture..more wrinkled..and my meatus is strangely more wrinkled and more "loose" and messy in texture and possibly slightly pinker immediately next to the meatus.

Other symptoms after my contact with the said partner beginning one or two days after intercourse with her were a deep aching in my penis, general malise and a sense of abdominal fullness or swollenness and once in a while some shooting pains.

I have had all STD tests in the last 3 weeks including HGG HSV1and 2 and all were negative.

I am especially curious what the groove (s) mean and if anyone else has had them.  I will get another HSV test at the 4 month mark.

Can anyone relate or offer any advise what this could be and possible route of treatment to eliminate these symptoms to get me back to normal?  I've never experienced these symptoms before after any other previous sexual encounter.  I am heterosexual never have had any oral sex and only vaginal intercourse.    

Thanks
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101028 tn?1419603004
we don't look at pictures here. why not is explained in our read before posting post located under the important announcements tab.

really, nothing about this sounds abnormal. it just sounds more like you need a new hobby that doesn't involve looking at your genital area frequently more than anything.  
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Thank you,  now 3.5 months after the onset of this strange ring/groove around the middle of my glans (after unprotected sex) it is still present every day, as if it is now a permanent characteristic, and it feels and looks abnormal.  

If it would help I can post/provide digital images that show the ring/groove clearly, it is very distinctive.  If so, where should I post them?  I think most would find it to look atypical and abnormal, it is abnormal for me.  It never looked like that before that sexual encounter.
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101028 tn?1419603004
this isn't herpes going on.

at this point all you can do is to continue to follow up every time you have symptoms. this doesn't sound like a std going on.

grace
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