[Question #6538] Possible exposure to herpes sores
67 months ago
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Hello doctors.
The other day I engaged in mutual masturbation with a girl I know. It was around 6am Saturday. I gave her oral and I fingered and rubbed her quite vigorously until orgasm, and she masturbated me. She also game me very brief oral sex twice, like 3 seconds each.
Later that day, she started having pain in her clitoris, and it got swollen and hard. According to her, it stayed swollen until Sunday evening. Then the inflammation went down and she felt like "dry skin" on her clit. We both assumed it was just trauma from the vigorous masturbation given it got swollen only hours after the encounter... what else could it be right?
Then yesterday (Monday) evening she came visiting and we engaged in mutual masturbation again, this time I was careful to not touch her clit, which still has this "dry skin" (it actually looks like a healing burn to me) in case it was uncomfortable and just fingered her. Then I masturbated myself. She also touched my penis several times during this time, and gave me brief oral. At some point I licked one of the fingers right after I fingered her (sorry for the details.)
So, after that, I started thinking about herpes. What if what we assumed was an irritated clit due to the rough masturbation was an herpes outbreak? She says she has never had an herpes outbreak before, and genital herpes is indeed rare here in Germany. She doesn't have a fever or any other systemic symptom. I have had cold sores my entire life, like most persons I know. I don't know if she gets cold sores.
How concerned should I be? Does it sound like herpes to you? In case these were herpes sores, what are my chances of getting it in my fingers, penis and/or mouth? Should I just wait for symptoms to appear? Could have been me who gave her my HSV1 during our encounter Saturday morning and make her clit swollen after less than 24h? I'm losing it here :/
67 months ago
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Sorry, I forgot to mention that my penis was never in direct contact with her vagina, in neither of the encounters.
Thanks.
67 months ago
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Another little update: my friend tells me her clitoris is almost back to normal, and most of the "dry skin" is no longer there. This is about 3 days after the vigorous rubbing/masturbation Saturday morning. Is this consistent with an herpes outbreak? (My own oral herpes outbreaks last minimum 7 days and they are certainly painful, with several "generations" of crusts forming over the not-yet-healed skin, hence I'm wondering.)
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Terri Warren, RN, Nurse Practitioner
67 months ago
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I think your first impression about what was going on here was absolutely correct. Nothing you have told me suggests in any way that this could be herpes. However, it sounds as though you do have oral herpes and you should know that you an transfer that virus from your mouth to someone else's genital by giving oral sex. But in this case, the symptoms came up way too early after the encounter to be herpes and the symptoms are not consistent with herpes, either. I think in this case, there was just too much vigorous masturbation going on.
Terri
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67 months ago
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At this point it is 10 days after the last contact and I have not developed any symptom, so I guess all is well.
Thanks for your help! You are doing a fantastic job here :)
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Terri Warren, RN, Nurse Practitioner
67 months ago
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You are most welcome, and than YOU.
Terri
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