[Question #2909] HSV Scare
92 months ago
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I'm a 27-year-old gay male, currently in a monogamous
relationship for 10 months. I was diagnosed with prostatitis in January of
2016. I also was diagnosed with HPV
genital warts in April of 2017, having a very small recurrence in September.
I recently discovered a small red bump with a white mark on
my penis. Partly out of panic, I ended up popping it on the spot. A tiny amount of pus came out, and by the
time I looked at it again at home about an hour later, it was difficult to find
and left only a small red mark that required magnifying and light to see
well.
By the next day, it had turned into something more like a
flat red mark, and if you zoomed in with a phone camera, it looked slightly
like a crater. I had moderate pain in the penile region, very intermittently,
after popping the bump but not before. After 2.5-3 days, the mark was largely gone
and almost completely healed.
Around the last day of it being truly visible by the naked
eye, I started developing very minor, intermittent nerve pain in my legs,
predominately in the left one. Occasionally my arm and neck. Not painful to the
touch, but the nerve pain is still occurring post-healing.
My dermatologist looked at it very closely for several
minutes, and upon seeing debris and a small hair in the mark, determined it was
nothing to worry about. Seeing my general doctor agreed, she agreed with the
diagnosis. The bump is gone and penile pain with it, but the nerve pain worries
me.
What should I make of it all?
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Terri Warren, RN, Nurse Practitioner
92 months ago
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Terri
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92 months ago
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Terri Warren, RN, Nurse Practitioner
92 months ago
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Terri
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92 months ago
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Terri Warren, RN, Nurse Practitioner
92 months ago
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I'm sorry but we don't have same sex couple transmission rates.
If the symptoms of nerve pain are pretty constant, that suggests that it is not herpes related.
It is possible to be have sores on the anus and penis at the same time, yes, just as we see have genital and oral outbreaks at the same time. Some little change in the immune response can trigger the virus to come out and be active. Have you had an antibody test to see if you are infected or not? If not, you might want to think about doing that.
Terri
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