[Question #330] Herpes?STD?
107 months ago
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Nov. 3rd I had unprotected sex with a striper. I have felt tremendous gilt since because im a married man with 3 kids. The time line is... the day after I felt a slight dual pain in my urethra but this could of just been the guilt, so I went to a doctor and he prescribed several antibiotics to cover all the major STDs wich seemed to work but after the tenth day after exposure I got what I would call jock itch on my right groin and seemed to also be on my scrotum. I called him and he said it might be herpes without an examination so he prescribed an antiviral. The irritation was gone in about 3-4 days. all was good for awhile but 23 days after possible exposure the rash groin rash came back this time on both sides and my scrotum is really red. I went to another doctor about 8 days ago and she said it dosent look like herpes and prescribed me an diflucon for the redness. I have been on it for 6 days with only moderate success. At 4 weeks I took a STD test through quest labs neg on all but was positive IGG test for hsv1. is it possible that I have HSV2 and the antivirals diluted the test? I have never seen any visible blisters just the red scrotum and jock itch.
Thank you for your help!
Terri Warren, RN, Nurse Practitioner
107 months ago
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Having said all of that, your symptoms do not sound herpetic but rather fungal and you do have a clinician telling you that that seems to be what you have. When you use topical antifungal medicine, you should be using it more than once per day and often people need to use it for two-three weeks very regularly before they note significant improvement. So please hang in there longer and see how it goes. Did they give you any oral antifungal medicines?
Terri
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107 months ago
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Terri Warren, RN, Nurse Practitioner
107 months ago
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Best
Terri
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