Hi Everyone,
I am having some terrible symptoms/pains that my urologist has dismissed as "not herpes" even though I was seropositive for HSV-1 -- despite never having a single symptom of oral (or other) herpes in my life. I am going to seek another opinion but wanted to get the group's advice:
On March 22, I saw one woman (let's call her K) and received unprotected oral sex. On April 2nd, I saw another woman (call her T) and, also, had unprotected oral sex. On April 3rd, I had painful urination and swollen testicles, saw a urologist, who thought I had some kind of epidydimitis (gonorrhea and chlamydia were negative) -- within a few days it cleared up, but I also had a full barrage of STD tests done on April 5th that showed me to be HSV-1 positive based on a blood test (IgG type-sensitive, but was told not to worry about it because it's very common and it "doesn't mean anything").
I saw K again on 4/25 and again had oral sex (remember, the doctor said I was fine). For the last week, since around 5/9, I have had terrible pains (feels like I constantly need to urinate, tingling on penis, and bumps). I had night sweats, chills, awful stomach/abdominal pain, etc. Much worse than April 3rd.
I saw a urologist again who claims I don't have herpes (no lesions, just irritated skin) and thinks it's all in my head although she agreed that the penis glans was irritated. I know my penis better than she does and something is REALLY wrong. Every day more bumps/blotches appear. A blood test done this Monday showed, again, HSV-1 positive, with an even higher antibody count (7 v 5).
I've told all of my partners and they all claim they are negative, but more based on symptoms. I'm almost positive that I have genital HSV-1, as I cannot think of ANYTHING else that could cause this, and the blood test confirms 100% that I have HSV-1.
My question for this forum is this: supposedly HSV-1 is very common, but I have NEVER had a single symptom in my life. I'm pretty confident I must have gotten this from K or T, and likely from K on March 22nd.
Has anyone else gone through something like this before? What else could this be?
Thanks!