NON GENITAL AND NON ORAL HSV-2

[MINI7827]

IM A 21 YEAR OLD BLACK FEMALE I GET TESTED FOR STD REGULARLY, THIS PAST COUPLE OF MONTH THE DOCTOR THAT I WAS SEEING MOVE TO A NEW OFFICE AND SO I PICKED A RANDOM CLINIC OUT OF THE PHONE BOOK I WALK IN GOT TESTED AND AFTER TWO WEEKS OF HEARING NOTHING FROM THE OFFICE I CALLED AND THEY TOLD ME I WOULD HAVE TO COME IN SOM`THING I HAVE NEVER HAD HAPPEN TO ME BRFORE THE NP WALKED IN TOLD ME I AD GENIAL HERPES HSV-2 FROM A POSITIVE IGG `WITH LEVELS OF 2.7, I AM ALSO A NURSE SO BEING THAT I DID NOT BELIEVE HER I HAD A WSETERN BLOT DRAWN AND THEM WENT TO SEE 3 OTHER DOCTOR ONE INTERNAL MEDICINE, THE 2ND INFECTIOUS DISEASES AND 3RD DERMATOLOGIST, AROUND THE TIME I WENT TO SEE THE INFECTIOUS DISEASE DOCTOR SHE NOTICE A SMALL ROUNDED AREA  ON MY ARM WITH MANY ROUND  BLISTERS I HAVE HAD THIS APEAR ON MY ARM SINCE I WAS A SMALL CHILD I WAS TOLD THAT IT WAS A RINGWRORM ITS ALWAYS IN THE SHAPE OF A CIRCLE AND NEVER LAST MORE THAN 2 WEEKS THE DOCTOR CULTERED IT AND IT CAME BACK AS HSV2  MY WESTERN BLOT ALSO CAME BACK POSITIVE AS WELL AS MY IGG WITH THE LEVELS NOW @ 4.06  I SHARED MY RESULTS WITH ALL 3 DOCTORS AND THEY AL TOLD ME AROUND THE SAME THING THAT THIS WAS RARE NON GENIAL ONE DOCTER HOWEVER TOLD ME THAT THIS IS COMMON MOSTLY IN POEPLE WHO PLAY ALOT OF SPORTS THAT CAUSE CONTACT I NEVER HAD ANY GENIAL HERPES LEASIONS I DID HOWEVER HAVE TO CYST REMOVED FROM MY BIKINI LINE AROUND THE SAME TIME I DONT THINK THIS IS RELATED NIETHER DID THE DOCTORS THAT I SAW I ALSO HAD A HIGN LEVEL OF HERPES ZOSTER FROM BLOOD TEST  IGG  THE LEVELS WERE OVER 4000 JUST WONDER  WHAT IS YOUR OPINION ON THIS

[Life360_Dave]

Hi, hsv2 non genital is not common but surely possible. Having a positive swab would confirm that your hsv2 is non genital but the good part is that it dosenot shed very much at all, about 1% of the time. so your risk of spreading to someone else is only when a sore is there.

[MINI7827]

I AGREE I DO NOT BELIVE IT IS RARE EITHER I HAVE HAD THIS SINCE I WAS A SMALL CHILD AND WAS ALWAYS TOLD IT WAS A RINGWORM AND AL THO IT DOES LOOK SOME WHAT LIKE A RINGWORM IT HAS NEVER BEEN TESTED UNTILL NOW AND THE ONLY REASON IT IS TESTED IS BECAUSE I RECIEVED A POSITIVE IGG RESULT MY VIRAL CULTURE CAME BACK POSITIVE TO WHICH I WAS VERY RELIEVED

[atypical2015]

Non-genital outbreaks of HSV2 are more common than physicians realize. They keep calling it "rare" because they keep dismissing such symptoms as some "unknown cause" or misdiagnosing it. I also am convinced I have HSV2 outbreaks in some unusual places on my body. But my doctor claims he's never seen such a case in 30 years, so it can't be HSV2. Given the circumstances around these outbreaks (long story), I am 100% sure it is HSV2 and will have to wait until I get a significant enough outbreak to take another swab.