Feeling uneasy

[Nervous12345]

Hi, I'm a 25 year old female. On August 3rd I had a drunken unprotected one night stand. During the night we had sex three times and both gave and received oral. I know nothing about the man's past, except that he has slept with a number of women. I realize it was a stupid mistake, and I'm taking every step necessary to make sure I'm safe after this encounter. I did not see anything that looked wrong on him when we were together but I still feel scared about the possibility of herpes. After two weeks I was tested for HIV, syphilis, Chlamydia and gonorrhea. They were negative. I had a physical as well and my Dr said I showed no signs of herpes but that I obviously couldn't test this soon. I had repeat testing for Chlamydia, gonorrhea, and syphilis again at 3.5 weeks and again they came back negative. I was told to retest once again for HIV and syphilis at 3 months just to be sure, so I'm planning on that. I had been very scared at this appointment and explained to my doctor that I wasn't feeling 100% and it turns out I was diagnosed with a 'very mild' UTI. After the antibiotic I felt fine. At 3 weeks I was just so nervous that I ordered a type specific IgG for hsv2. It was negative. I realize that it was early, but as I'd never been tested for it before I figured I might as well. At this point I'm now 5 weeks past the encounter and I'm feeling odd symptoms. Last night I had a dull ache where my leg meets my bum. I immediately began to stress and think that it was prodrome symptoms before an outbreak because I read about it on a bunch of herpes forums. Today I felt the dull ache a couple times and have felt a pinching feeling behind my knee. This is only happening down my left leg. I saw my Dr and he advised me to move on. He said it was unlikely I was infected as he examined me again and discovered no outward sign of herpes. He said that generally symptoms would have occurred already by about 2 weeks from the exposure. He said that my symptoms don't necessarily mean anything and that I'm most likely just paying extra close attention to every little ache and pain. I will admit that throughout these 5 weeks Ive been a basket case. I've had problems sleeping, I worry and stress constantly, and I've even lost weight. Basically I just wanted see if an outbreak is likely 5 weeks after the potential exposure, or if I'm just being paranoid and reading too many things on the internet and paying too close attention to every little thing I feel in my body. Would I benefit from testing any sooner than the recommended 3-4 months so that it may put my mind at ease, or would it just be a waste? What are my odds that I could have contracted hsv2? Thank you for your time.

[Life360_Dave]

Hi also. Prodrome symptoms are usually associated with recurrent breakouts so if you tested negative for herpes then it would not be prodrome from this affair.
Prodrome can be very accurate is predicting outbreaks and is used as a tool for those with hsv to time the reoccurance of future outbreaks to avoid exposing a partner.

[Fleetwood20]

I agree with the doctor. With no signs or symptoms suggestive of herpes you most likely are not infected after that particular encounter.

If your HIV test was a generation 4 duo antigen and antibody test then this definitive at 28 days.

There is no real point in testing sooner than 12 to 16 weeks if you want confidence in the negative. Make sure you test for both IgG HSV1 and HSV2.