Confidence in Results

[jon309]

About 15 months ago I had drunken protected sex with a prostitute in Amsterdam. Immediately after the incident, I began to worry obviously. I noticed bumps on the insides of my thighs. After negative blood work at 6 weeks, I had a tingling sensation in my urethra for about a week. My doctor said that I was probably beating myself up after the incident and I should not worry. I also immediately noticed redness around the penis head, a little bump in the urethra which has not gone away, some difficulty urinating, pressure in the bladder, and occasional shooting pains in the pelvic area. The skin issue has lasted for a year, since the incident, and has not been cured by topical steroid treatment. These lasting skin symptoms are not consistent with herpes according to doctors, but I am worried that the thigh bumps, shooting pains, tingling, and urinary difficulty may be. I have had multiple negative blood tests for all STD's, and negative urine tests over the past year, and have not had sex since this incident. My most recent blood test for hsv2, about a year after the incident, was on the border, and was inconclusive, however. This morning I decided to go back to the city STD clinic, to see if they had any diagnosis for the skin redness. I asked if they could do a hsv test along with the other standard bloodwork, and the doctor said to me, "you could but you would be wasting your time. the herpes blood test is very inaccurate, and we never do it here.  you 'probably' do not have herpes." Probably, is not a good enough diagnosis for me, especially after the riskiness and stupidity of my actions. I was starting to get past this, but the doctor put doubt back into my mind. My questions are simply, are my issues consistent with hsv2, and can I be completely confident in my hsv bloodwork results, despite what this doctor said to me? I have heard that many people can have herpes and not even know it. I can not move on to have sex with my girlfriend unless I am sure beyond any reasonable doubt that I do not have hsv2. Thank you for your help.

[jon309]

anyone's thoughts would be greatly greatly appreciated

[petal130]

grace responded to you in the below post. Consider counseling if you can't move on from herpes at this point.

http://www.medhelp.org/posts/Herpes/hsv-igg-results--symptoms/show/1161570?personal_page_id=632925#post_5390504

[jon309]

can you blame me for asking one more time when a man at the health clinic told me the blood test was not very accurate...

[jon309]

petal...in that previous posting i did not mention that i had the exact symptoms of what the initial outbreak would have been like i did in this posting...i believe the virus becomes dormant after that first outbreak...i wanted to ask if i can still be confident in the bloodwork, after a doctor at the city health clinic told me 3 days ago that the herpes blood test was not accurate..i do need peace of mind here, and if someone on this forum can once again reassure me, or tell me that i need to do some kind of further testing, i would be very grateful.

[gracefromHHP]

this doesn't sound like herpes going on.

your tests have all been done long enough after the encounter that you can trust their results.  The provider who told you the tests are inaccurate, obviously was not properly educated on them to understand them.

whatever is causing your issues, it's not herpes from the encounter in question.

grace