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Eye Herpes
Dear Doctor.
I received unprotected oral sex a month ago with a new partner who did not have any physical symptoms and whom I never heard from again, the root cause of it all. As As the weeks went by and I had absolutely none of the common herpes associated symptoms (blisters, culsters of bumps, swollen glands ). I however just felt weird is the best way to put it. I was obssesing hours mentally hours of the day and I felt random tingly sensations in my genitals. After about three weeks I did, after nearly an hour collectively daily of examining my penis, allocate a tiny tiny little bump which really was so small but it was the breaking point and I went and tested, IgM and type 2 specific IgG. Well result came back IgM 1.3 and IgG negative. Great, nothing to do now but live my life responsiby.
The issue concerning me is that in the past week I have been feeling this odd mild irratation sensation in my eye. In the inner corners it seems like there would be discharge but there isnt. I had no idea you could get herpes in your eye so I wasn't taking any special precautions, but like i said I had no real symptoms at all, no blisters.
I have read up no that you can get herpes virus in your eye so I am very very worried about this. I can cope with the fact that I have to be responsible with my contact with people but I simply want to take every precaution to prevent damage to my eyesight, my academia, my lifestyle, everything of value to me depends on it.
In your professional opinion, is it possible that I have acquired the herpes virus in my eye via 1.)viral shedding contact with the individual 2.) transfer from myself considering i had no sores? Also 4.) What type of doctor would i see to diagnose if I had the virus in my eye and 5.) is it possible theoretically that if i did have an infection in my eye I could take measures to continuously prevent the virus from damaging my eye sight?
I appreciate your time and help greatly.
I received unprotected oral sex a month ago with a new partner who did not have any physical symptoms and whom I never heard from again, the root cause of it all. As As the weeks went by and I had absolutely none of the common herpes associated symptoms (blisters, culsters of bumps, swollen glands ). I however just felt weird is the best way to put it. I was obssesing hours mentally hours of the day and I felt random tingly sensations in my genitals. After about three weeks I did, after nearly an hour collectively daily of examining my penis, allocate a tiny tiny little bump which really was so small but it was the breaking point and I went and tested, IgM and type 2 specific IgG. Well result came back IgM 1.3 and IgG negative. Great, nothing to do now but live my life responsiby.
The issue concerning me is that in the past week I have been feeling this odd mild irratation sensation in my eye. In the inner corners it seems like there would be discharge but there isnt. I had no idea you could get herpes in your eye so I wasn't taking any special precautions, but like i said I had no real symptoms at all, no blisters.
I have read up no that you can get herpes virus in your eye so I am very very worried about this. I can cope with the fact that I have to be responsible with my contact with people but I simply want to take every precaution to prevent damage to my eyesight, my academia, my lifestyle, everything of value to me depends on it.
In your professional opinion, is it possible that I have acquired the herpes virus in my eye via 1.)viral shedding contact with the individual 2.) transfer from myself considering i had no sores? Also 4.) What type of doctor would i see to diagnose if I had the virus in my eye and 5.) is it possible theoretically that if i did have an infection in my eye I could take measures to continuously prevent the virus from damaging my eye sight?
I appreciate your time and help greatly.
this is not the doctor's forum. you have to pay to post there.
Odds are whatever is going on with your eye isn't remotely related to receiving/giving oral sex. If it still bothers you monday, follow up on it with your provider.
Why are you convinced you must've contracted herpes? You had a teeny tiny bump - that isn't a newly acquired herpes infection. A + igm is meaningless too. http://www.medhelp.org/posts/show/248394 is a prior post that goes into good detail on herpes igm testing and why it's of little value.
grace
Odds are whatever is going on with your eye isn't remotely related to receiving/giving oral sex. If it still bothers you monday, follow up on it with your provider.
Why are you convinced you must've contracted herpes? You had a teeny tiny bump - that isn't a newly acquired herpes infection. A + igm is meaningless too. http://www.medhelp.org/posts/show/248394 is a prior post that goes into good detail on herpes igm testing and why it's of little value.
grace
Thanks for your response. I actually thought that I was getting tested comprehensively but found out with results that it was just for hsv2. I figure I will wait 2 months and test for both, as hard as it is I am accepting the fact that I have contracted some form of the virus, and life shall go on. I am just concerned about the eye infection possibility.
This is not at all a risk for eye herpes. Even your risk of acquiring herpes genitally is a very low risk based on a one-time encounter.
So yes, you can stop obsessing. Any reason you didn't get an IgG for HSV1? At least that way too you'll know your status for that as well (unrelated to this encounter)...
So yes, you can stop obsessing. Any reason you didn't get an IgG for HSV1? At least that way too you'll know your status for that as well (unrelated to this encounter)...
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