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I took 3 of my friend's birthcontrol pills at once (since i'm not on it) and 5 IB profines every couple hours because i read that this combination would make your period temporarily stop because my boyfriend was coming in town.
We had sex in a bathtub and continued to that whole week. It stung when i peed and i had to pee CONSTANTLY and i had horrible cramps i also had the urge to pass gas constanttlyy all that week.
I constantly was taking meds for my cold, and drinking coffees, beers and eating sweets breads, pastas, etc. things with yeast.
Towards the end of the week it started to be a little sore when we would have sex so we used lube and that day i saw a couple bumps on my vagina opening and throughout the next 2 days i got a couple more (they all look like pimples)
I thought of it possibly being herpes but
1. he's been tested RECENTLY and doesn't have it
2. Since we assumed the bumps were razor burn, he had unprotected sex with me WHILE i had the bumps and he's had nothing come up for him.
3. after having sex with the bumps, within a few minutes i gave him head (not to be gross, but i could taste myself) so if i had herpes in my vagina wouldn't i have then transfered it to my mouth too?

I read online that water sex gives you UTI's, so i thought it could be from that and turned into a yeast infection or from the lube OR i was thinking all those birthcontrols threw my hormones out of whack plus all the meds and plus having sex in the water and eating alllll these things that make yeast infections worse?? Since the bumps could be candida?

I went to planned parenthood and the first thing the nurse said when i opened my legs is "oh poor honey, you have herpes." I got angry with her for saying such a life changing thing without testing and made her take a yeast infection test even though she REFUSED to saying "NO you have herpes." The yeast infection test did infact come out positive. She then took a sample and said i'd have my herpes results in a week and wrote me a herpes presrciption and yeast prescription. i have only been taking the yeast prescription and it seems to be healing up a bit already after one day.
I am POSITIVE my boyfriend does not have herpes (saw his tests) and i have not had sex with anyone else in a year, so if it were from a year ago it probably wouldnt pop up the week him and i had sex unless i got it from him right? But the nurse telling me it's herpes and the bumps are scaring me. Does this sound like herpes or a bad yeast infection? I am so confused/scared, Thanks so much for your help!!
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Well, the only good way to test for herpes is to take a swab from an active outbreak.  There is a blood test, but it isn't as specific or as accurate as an active swab.  Does your boyfriend know for SURE that the STD panel they did recently included a herpes test?  They often don't, unless you specifically ask.  Therefore, he could have been clean from the things they did test for (like chlamydia and syphilis), but they might not have tested for herpes.  And the joy of herpes is that it can spread without visible lesions--you can shed virus before the sores appear, and you might get an almost breakout that never got to the visible lesions stage.  I would think that a nurse who works in ob/gyn a lot would know what herpes looks like, although I'm sure they can make mistakes, as they're only human.  You'll know your own results soon enough.

You can get genital herpes in your mouth (or oral herpes on your genitals) from oral sex, but it's not 100% going to happen every time, so you not getting cold sores doesn't mean you didn't get genital herpes.  UTIs don't cause blisters, although they can cause urgency and burning with urination.  Eating things with yeast in them isn't what gives you a yeast infection.  You always have some yeast in your vagina, and this is normal and healthy.  Sometimes, something causes the yeast to overgrow, at which point it becomes a problem.  Having sex sometimes does this, and using lube with sugar in it (like flavored lube) is a great way to do it, since you're giving the yeast a direct source of food (eating sugar isn't a problem when it comes to yeast infections).  

I hate to say it, but your boyfriend could have gotten herpes in between when he was last tested and when you had sex.  Are you sure he hasn't had an outbreak of something after he went back home?  Or, if they didn't really test him for herpes, or they did but it was a false negative, he could have had an almost outbreak.  If you had a cold, that might have made it easier for you to catch it (later herpes outbreaks happen when you're immune system is weakened, which is why ones on the mouth are called cold sores--they happen when you get sick).

Taking your friend's birth control and that much ibuprofen like that is a really bad idea.  Don't do it.  If you want to be able to skip periods, get a monophasic (all pills same dose) birth control pill for yourself, and just start a new pack after week 3 anytime you want to skip a period (but you shouldn't do it more than 3 months in a row).  Ibuprofen can give you stomach ulcers in overdose, and is bad for your kidneys.  I also don't know of any mechanism by which it would stop a period.  And too many birth control pills at once can act like a morning after pill, which can cause lots of cramps and bleeding.  It's a bad idea to screw around with prescription drugs like that on the advice of the internet (or anyone not a healthcare provider).
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