What can this mean?

[heyya201]

I last had sex october 3rd with a guy I sort of knew. We wore a condon DEFINENTLY, but he did perform oral sex on me. He didn't have any cole sores I know for certain becuase I would have noticed and I would have gotten a cole sore seen as we were kissing before the oral sex. One night I got off work, this was probably around nov. 1st and i felt itchy arpound the opening to my vagina. a week later I noticed that around my opening there felt to be cuts or dry skin or something. a couple days later a little further up I felt a large bump and I itched it quite a bit then I started to notice smaller bumps around it. Now that I have stopped itching it is starting to go away but it has been about 2 1/2 weeks. I had sex without a condom about 6 months prior to this. I am worried it could be herpes because the timing sounds about right and the itchy bumps sound familiar but could i get that from oral sex if he doesn't have a cole sore? or could i all of a sudden just have it after 6 months? and if not herped what else could it be.

[Bhupinder Kaur, MD]

Hello,
Definitely from your symptoms STD’s need to be ruled out. The only way of ruling it out is by getting yourself tested for genital herpes. Laboratory tests include: culture of the virus, direct fluorescent antibody (DFA) studies to detect virus, skin biopsy, and polymerase chain reaction (PCR) to test for presence of viral DNA. I sincerely advise you to consult a dermatologist and get it ruled out.

It is very difficult to precisely confirm a diagnosis without examination and investigations and the answer is based on the medical information provided. For exact diagnosis, you are requested to consult your dermatologist. I sincerely hope that helps. Take care and please do keep me posted on how you are doing.

[nurseestilmt711]

Yeah you should go to the drs to be tested, herpes is a skin to skin contact STD so unfortunately even a condom can't guarantee you wont become infected. The surrounding skin is also affected. I hope you end up being alright hun.

[Angebelle]

Given the symptoms, you may have an STD, a vaginal infection, or trochomoniasis, all of which need prescription med to cure - visit your obgyn.