Blister question

[Caddy22]

So I had unprotected sex and felt discomfort after a day or two in my genital region. 3 weeks later I viciously scrubbed the head of my penis. 2 days after that I woke up and my penis head looked like it had a bruised nerve running through it and after a full day at the beach I had developed red spots around my penis head and had raised red skin kind of like a blister at the very tip. I took valtrex thinking on my own it was herpes but wasn't sure. It cleared up in about 3-4 days. Since then I have had random red blotches on my penis head but no blistering although I started taking valtrex a lot. I now randomly have a very swollen penis head during erections but not all the time. I used desonide cream which helps but symptoms come back sporadically. Any help would be awesome. Also had full std test and was hsv1 positive which I knew from getting oral cold sores. Is this hsv1 genital?

[masterroachy]

you really should stop self medicating specially if you don't know what you doing.

[Fleetwood20]

You mentioned unprotected sex that I thought would have included vaginal and oral hence HSV 1 and 2 are possibilities. Your oral HSV1 infection pretty much rules out this as genital HSV1. This leaves HSV2, which is not uncommon in females, and it seems you didn't ask to see test results before the bedroom door closed!

Your 12 week IgG for HSV2 can be taken as a fairly conclusive negative.

This does therefore seem to be a persistent infection that I'm sure the doctor can help with.

[Caddy22]

Hsv2 was negative at around 12 weeks. Why do you think it could be hsv2 but it 1 aside from site of preference? Thanks for your help

[Fleetwood20]

This does seem to be bacterial or fungal and your own rough treatment. Some infections are very stubborn. Seek medical advice on this.

As for the question of herpes, the best you can do here to is to have the IgG antibody test for HSV2 12 weeks post the encounter. This is very unlikely to be genital HSV1.