Folliculitis or Herpes?

[worry_wart83]

About six months ago I slept naked with man. There was no sexual intercourse but definite skin to skin contact. Exactly one week after I started to get a strange tingling feeling on my right buttocks cheek. This tingling then spread to the inside of my groin and down the back of my leg. A day or two after I felt a stinging sensation in the same area and when I looked in the mirror there were a few red pimple like dots with a whitehead, on different spots on my buttocks cheeks. I have been to 2 different doctors about this as I was concerned it was herpes. The 1st doctor had a look and straight away it cant be herpes but we did a type specific blood test to check. The test came back positive for HSV type 1 IgG (which I do get coldsore very rarely) and negative for HSV type 2 IgG and IgM which she explained to me that, that means my body hasnt produce antibodies for type 2 and that my blood wasnt showing that I was having a HSV type 2 breakout at the time it was taken. Ok so that means I dont have HSV 2. But is it still possible that I could be having a type 1 outbreak on my buttocks even though I know I already have had the virus in the form of coldsores for years....? The blood test doesnt really help as I knew I already was positive for type 1, but that doesnt mean that the symptons im experiencing on my buttocks isnt type 1 does it?
Both doctors said they couldnt do a swap cos the pimple like spots werent open sores. The 2nd doctor was positive that it was folliculitis from just looking at it and told me to wash in pHisohex which contains 1% w/v Triclosan(10mg/mL) and I have been using it twice a day now for almost a month and it hasnt made any difference. The reason why Im so worried about this being herpes is because of the symptons I get before these 'pimples' appear. They include stinging, tingling and burning on the right buttocks. Then the pimples usually appear not long after that. The only thing that doesnt seem to be common for herpes is that the pimples dont ever seem to go away...there is always ay least some irritation there. But the tingling, stinging and burning comes and goes, usually more intense around my period. I hope someone can help me with some answers.....thankyou

[worry_wart83]

Can u explain at all why Im geting the tingling feeling in and around my groin on the same side as my buttocks?
I also havent mentioned that I suffer from vulvodynia. My vulva symptoms have been at ease from sometime now, but could this condition be causing the tingling sensation on my buttocks?
Could I have nerve damage? A week or so before these symptoms started I did alot of bike riding could that have anything to do with it?

[worry_wart83]

I know I am stuck on herpes just mainly because of the tingling stinging and burning and then the pimples appear. I guess Ill only be able to move on from this when Im diagnosed with something......
What you said in the previous post about heat makes sense but im not getting a itch...Could it be anything else??

[jagesh50]

Well,it looks to me that you are still thinking of herpes.Herpes group of viruses make ganglion of nerve roots their home, and known as neurotropic.Once in two or three months they peep out travelling via the nerve fibre and when thus they come out form water filled vesicles,now known as epidermotropic,stay for a few days.Then go back home only to come after a few months,this is known a trophism.Now you understand that herpes virus do not behave the way as in your case it comes out as as an when there is even a small stress.H type1 comes just but once or twice in a lifetime at the genital level.Hope I am clear.

[jagesh50]

Cholinergic urticaria is a form of physical urticaria triggered by a rise in core body temperature. Sweating is not a must.Then other conditions may include an anxiety state,neuralgias which may manifest itch.

[worry_wart83]

Hey Ive started keeping a journal of my symptoms and Ive noticed sitting for a period of time seems to bring it on. In a matter of time usually within the hour the pimples appear. I dont need to be sweating for this to happen either. Do you know of any condition another than cholingeric urticaria that this could be?

[jagesh50]

The time taken for positivity,you have adequtely crossed.No worries relax.