[Question #11132] Hsv concerns

16 months ago

I have several post in last 6 months. Massage, licking of the butt and scrotum and inserting finger into my butt when they did this it felt like they scratched the inside of my anus. This is all that took place. I’m still having pains in both legs mostly backs of legs hamstring area. Also feet feel like burning on the bottoms and sides and feels like socks wrinkled up under toes. Take off shoes and socks are flat. Calves hurt sometimes also. My tailbone fells like it is burning almost every day. Still get the sensation in rectum from time to time. Lower back aches also. I took the western blot at 12 1/2 weeks from exposure and it was positive for hsv1 and negative for hsv2. Since I have high number on hsv1 41 could this have slowed my results for hsv2. I have had hsv 1 since my childhood. I didn’t have any of these symptoms until after my exposure on 9/22. . I know you say extremely unlikely to acquire hsv1 in another location but this is what I feel like has happened. I had burning in my rectum shortly after this encounter I could not see up in there for lesions. As I type this my feet, back of legs and tailbone and rectum hurt. Also get pains in my thigh area. There are a lot of post on here and westover heights that say the same thing about leg pain and the nerve issues. My state of depression and anxiety is very serious condition right now and I don’t know what to do. Have not had sex with my wife since this has happened. I’m to afraid to and that I might pass this onto her. She has hsv1 oral also.

H. Hunter Handsfield, MD

16 months ago

I'm sorry, but these are repetitive questions that have been answered in your five previous threads -- and repeated anxiety driven questions are not only discouraged, but after several repeats we no longer reply and simply delete such questions without reply.

In response to the one new question here, the answer is no: having HSV1 or a positive test result for HSV1 does not mask, slow, or otherwise modify the results of HSV2 testing.

As repeatedly advised in your five previous threads, you were not at risk for HSV2 and your symptoms do not go along with HSV infection of any type or kind. You have nothing you can pass on to your wife: no HSV2, and since she already has HSV1, she is immune to catching it again from you.

Despite what you might think you learned online, in the absence of obvious outbreaks (skin lesions etc), herpes simply does not cause symptoms like yours. For more detail, I suggest you go back and re-read your other five threads. If you find yourself still compelled to search online, I suggest you limit yourself to professionally run or moderated sites, like this one, and ignore those by and for people with similar problems (like Reddit, for example). Anyone can write anything they want and much of the available information is misleading or overtly false.

Given your state of mind on all this and your self-recognized depression over it, there's an easy reply to "I don't know what to do": get professional counseling. Your inability to understand or believe the repeated, reasoned, science based replies you have had on this forum -- and perhaps from your own doctors -- indicates a mental health issue that needs professional attention. I suggest counseling from compassion, not criticism: please consider it seriously.

There will be no opportunity for discussion -- and because repeated questions on the same topic are forbidden, this must be your last forum question along these lines. Future ones will be deleted without even this much reply, and without refund of the posting fee. Like my counseling advice, this policy is based on compassion, not criticism, and is intended to reduce temptations to keep paying for questions with obvious answers. In addition, experience shows that continued answers tend to prolong users' anxieties rather than reducing them. Finally, such questions have little educational value for other users, one of the forum's main purposes. Thanks for your understanding. I do hope this and re-review of your previous discussions will help you move on without further worry.

HHH, MD

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