Well, I think my life just ended as I know it.
I month or so ago, I had a few sexual encounters with a woman in Brazil. I am pretty sure I have contracted Herpes. I used a condom for every encounter, but I had 1 breakage and 1 slippage, I pulled out immediately and washed. So I would have been exposed for a very brief time to her.
This woman had what did look something like a burn mark on her bum, she told me that she had sat on a curling iron, retrospectively I think it was herpes lesions.
Anyway, upon returning home from Brazil, I thought all was fine. About 3-4 days later my wife developed a very small lesion on her lower labia. This cleared up after about a week. I then came back to Brazil, I work here. Then she had developed some itchyness and vaginal discharge, clear, thin, odorless. When the itchyness started, she treated herself for yeast infection and the itchyness disappeared, but she still has the discharge. Very slight discharge.
She went and got tested for Gonnorhea, Clamydia and other things, not sure what. She didn't ask for these, the doctor just tested her to be safe. All came back negative. She then recieved a call from the doctor saying she tested positive for a yeast infection, and prescribed her some sort of anti-fungal.
I have no symptoms to speak of, I think all that has been happening to me is stress(sore stomach, ulcer maybe).
Questions:
1. What are my chances of cathing HIV along with the herpes, assuming she was HIV positive?
2. How much more infectious HIV-wise is someone with open lesions. ( I say open, they were dry, not weeping or anything.)The lesions were well away from the vagina, well out on one of her cheaks, another reason I believed her burn story.
3. How long does the vaginal discharge associated with herpes usually last, My wife has had it for about 10 days-2 weeks, as far as I can tell?
4. I read some stuff about menningitis and herpes. Is this really common?
5. If the primary breakout is small, does that denote future outbreaks will probably be mild as well?
Anyway, I am going to come clean when I get home, and we are both going for testing... however I doubt we will be going together.
I truely screwed up this time, I just hope someway she can forgive me. Believe it or not, the terrible thing is this was the first time I ever cheated on her.
Thanks in advance Doc, I apprciate all of your answer on this forum.