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Urethral herpes? Please help.
Hi all, I'm a mid 30s male that recently came down with some symptoms. I've had a feeling I need to pee for the last three weeks and around two weeks ago I had a descent amount of stinging at the tip of my urethra. I've never had any sores but just inside my urethra it was a bit red and irritated for a while. I don't have any discharge and I feel perfectly healthy other than a soreness at the tip of my penis and a very mild burning sensation after urinating and sometimes in the middle of the night. I've tested negative for GC and chlaymidia. I'm waiting on the blood test results for herpes, but the concern over what is wrong is driving me nuts! Any information on if this sounds like urethral herpes will be greatly appreciated. Thank you for taking your time to help out.
Here's an update to this thread.
2 1/2 years post encounter I just tested negative for GSV 1 and 2 via herpeselect, both results less than .9
This test is enough for me to finally close the book on the question of herpes as a cause.
I'm going to try the rapaflo and see if it helps with the CPPS symptoms.
If anyone is going through a similar condition as this post, here's what helped me.
Hot baths or jacuzzi that release the pelvic floor muscles
Cutting out alchohol and other drinks foods that cause inflammation.
Swimming with an emphasis on kicking
Wearing cotton boxer briefs vice the old baggy boxers I used to wear
Staying positive.
Thank you to all that have helped me out and as Grace keeps saying, not everything beneath your legs is herpes.
God bless,
Borat
2 1/2 years post encounter I just tested negative for GSV 1 and 2 via herpeselect, both results less than .9
This test is enough for me to finally close the book on the question of herpes as a cause.
I'm going to try the rapaflo and see if it helps with the CPPS symptoms.
If anyone is going through a similar condition as this post, here's what helped me.
Hot baths or jacuzzi that release the pelvic floor muscles
Cutting out alchohol and other drinks foods that cause inflammation.
Swimming with an emphasis on kicking
Wearing cotton boxer briefs vice the old baggy boxers I used to wear
Staying positive.
Thank you to all that have helped me out and as Grace keeps saying, not everything beneath your legs is herpes.
God bless,
Borat
Joe,
One last question. Have you tried viral suppressives and does that help your symptoms?
One last question. Have you tried viral suppressives and does that help your symptoms?
Joe,
Good to hear from you, I just wish it was over better circumstances.
So, let me get this straight.
You were negative for 2 years via Western Blot, yet tested positive for HSV via PCR swab? And you had no other sexual partners between the one that tested HSV 1-2 positive and your partner of 25 years?
Have you retested via WB? Since showing positive via PCR?
What symptoms ate you having?
Sores, burning only, etc.
How did you self swab for HSV? Who did the lab work?
It would seem if you do have HSV, it defies all the rules that modern medicine had come up with for this disease.
I'm sorry to hear about your partner... I take it she tested positive?
My partner that I have been with is negative and still not showing symptoms after 2+ years, but if I did have it and tested negative, my biggest fear is I could give it to her.
If I'm negative via this latest test, I'm going to seek answers that are not herpes related.
Borat.
Good to hear from you, I just wish it was over better circumstances.
So, let me get this straight.
You were negative for 2 years via Western Blot, yet tested positive for HSV via PCR swab? And you had no other sexual partners between the one that tested HSV 1-2 positive and your partner of 25 years?
Have you retested via WB? Since showing positive via PCR?
What symptoms ate you having?
Sores, burning only, etc.
How did you self swab for HSV? Who did the lab work?
It would seem if you do have HSV, it defies all the rules that modern medicine had come up with for this disease.
I'm sorry to hear about your partner... I take it she tested positive?
My partner that I have been with is negative and still not showing symptoms after 2+ years, but if I did have it and tested negative, my biggest fear is I could give it to her.
If I'm negative via this latest test, I'm going to seek answers that are not herpes related.
Borat.
Borat,
It has been awhile since we last spoke. I am sorry to here this is still lingering for you. The problems have also continued for me as well. Why I ask well the answers was because it keeps coming back. It is herpes. I have it we believe in three locations genital oral and on my fingers/forearm. I tested 11 X through serology. Herpeselect, Immuoblot, Captiva, and Western Blot 2X's. All were negative. I also did a week of PCR swabing and was negative. I still could not let this thing go. Unfortunatley before I did what I am about to mention, I gave it to someone else. When my long time partner of 25 years started to have regular symptoms always around her period well she tested and guess what. The problem was I still tested negative. I finally did a bunch of daily swabbing. This cost me a small fortune in time and effort and I found out what I had suspected I have GHSV1 and OHSV1. The only thing I could not confirm 100% was what the blisters I had on my finger and forearm a couple years ago when all this was happening. Never thought of getting them swabbed back then. This one the doctors and I are guessing is herpes.
Handsfield made an interesting point that if the HerpeSelect does not show a positive to the antibodies it is even less likely the WB would pick up on it either. In one of his threads I read the confirmatory testing is even less sensitive. Whether it is or not there is no disbuting the PCR results. I hope your test comes back negative. For me it came back negative on the last IgG test I took at the 2 year mark and then I started the swab testing.
I truly believe many people are positive they just do not have enough detectable antibodies for the test to pick up. This seems to be more prevelant with HSV1 than HSV2. But I have read cases where peopel with HSV2 have the same issue positive swab negative serology. Remember nothing is 0% and nothing is 100%.
When dealing with herpes you play a numbers game probablilty and statistics. What is the likely hood to get infected on a onetime encounter sure it is probably 1 in 1000 or 1 in 10000 but think how many people are having sex everyday ALOT! so that means there are people being infected all the time. Many probably show up here because everyone is at a loss to what is happening to their bodies.
It has been awhile since we last spoke. I am sorry to here this is still lingering for you. The problems have also continued for me as well. Why I ask well the answers was because it keeps coming back. It is herpes. I have it we believe in three locations genital oral and on my fingers/forearm. I tested 11 X through serology. Herpeselect, Immuoblot, Captiva, and Western Blot 2X's. All were negative. I also did a week of PCR swabing and was negative. I still could not let this thing go. Unfortunatley before I did what I am about to mention, I gave it to someone else. When my long time partner of 25 years started to have regular symptoms always around her period well she tested and guess what. The problem was I still tested negative. I finally did a bunch of daily swabbing. This cost me a small fortune in time and effort and I found out what I had suspected I have GHSV1 and OHSV1. The only thing I could not confirm 100% was what the blisters I had on my finger and forearm a couple years ago when all this was happening. Never thought of getting them swabbed back then. This one the doctors and I are guessing is herpes.
Handsfield made an interesting point that if the HerpeSelect does not show a positive to the antibodies it is even less likely the WB would pick up on it either. In one of his threads I read the confirmatory testing is even less sensitive. Whether it is or not there is no disbuting the PCR results. I hope your test comes back negative. For me it came back negative on the last IgG test I took at the 2 year mark and then I started the swab testing.
I truly believe many people are positive they just do not have enough detectable antibodies for the test to pick up. This seems to be more prevelant with HSV1 than HSV2. But I have read cases where peopel with HSV2 have the same issue positive swab negative serology. Remember nothing is 0% and nothing is 100%.
When dealing with herpes you play a numbers game probablilty and statistics. What is the likely hood to get infected on a onetime encounter sure it is probably 1 in 1000 or 1 in 10000 but think how many people are having sex everyday ALOT! so that means there are people being infected all the time. Many probably show up here because everyone is at a loss to what is happening to their bodies.
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