[Question #13918] Question #13917 continued

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1 months ago
I'm sorry, but my second response wasn't sent in English due to the automatic translation, so I purchased a second question.
About four days ago, I wore underwear that was both extremely unhygienic and tight, and I hadn’t showered for about 7–8 days. During that time, a pimple appeared again in my pubic hair area (about 10 cm above the penis). It swelled slightly at first, but the swelling stopped after I applied an antibiotic cream (mupiron), and when I squeezed it, pus came out. Then, after taking a shower and scrubbing the area, I ended up causing a wound there. I’m continuing to apply the cream. In the first few days, it hurt as much as a pimple, but after applying the cream, it scabbed over. Today is the 4th day, and it doesn’t hurt—not even when I press on it. There’s no swelling in my groin lymph nodes. Could this be genital herpes?
not on the shaft of the penis or anywhere else. There were a couple of times when I wasn’t very clean in the hairy area on top of the penis. And those were definitely not blisters—they were pimples filled with pus.

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1 months ago
I would like to point out that I work with my laptop on my lap for about 14 hours a day, which means the affected area is exposed to the heat from the laptop’s fan. I would also like to add that I do not know whether my partner is infected, and if they are, there are no visible lesions. The burning sensation I’ve been experiencing, including a burning sensation when urinating, has been present for about 50 days and must be due to severe stress, as I did not have these issues before I started researching them. 

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Terri Warren, RN, Nurse Practitioner
1 months ago
I don't believe that HSV would cause the symptoms that you are describing, especially not for 50 days.  Herpes just doesn't behave in this way.  I think your squeezing likely caused a break in the skin rather than herpes.  Also, herpes lesions normally don't have pus in them.
Terri
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26 days ago
I monitored the situation for a while longer, and it hasn’t fully healed in about 25 days. On the 20th day, I found a hair that had become inflamed inside, so I used tweezers to remove three hairs—including those from the holes around the edges—and the wounds began to close because it had formed something like a channel.
I don’t think these symptoms are very typical of herpes. The fact that it hasn’t fully healed after 25 days, the recurring discharge, the formation of tunnel-like structures in the skin that harbor hairs, and the fact that the wounds started to heal and close after I removed the hairs.

It seems that squeezing under the skin doesn’t cause inflammation


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Terri Warren, RN, Nurse Practitioner
25 days ago
I would agree that herpes lesions don't normally last that long and the fact that removing the hair sped up healing also isn't consistent with HSV.  
Terri
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