Urethritis: Adenovirus or Herpes?

[vladmirgc]

Hello everyone, I have been feeling really anxious about a problem I have

Recently I received unprotected oral sex from someone I did not know very well. It was followed by protected intercourse.

5 days later: Started feeling intermittent warmth in my urethra. No pain or dysuria, also no blisters or rashes on genitals.
At the same time, started developing flu-like symptoms, including mild fever, also coughing. Initially thought it was unrelated.

Flu-like symptoms persisted for a few days. I also had headache and fatigue. Started having really intense diarrhea around 7th day, which persisted for at least a week.
Intermittent warmth in urethra persisted for a week, and it slowly faded away. No discharge from penis.

After symptoms disappeared, I had some mild irritation after urination and ejaculation, which lasted for a couple of days (~4 days).


Visited STD clinic in Canada on the 7th day after exposure. They ran a couple of exams, including swab test in urethra, urine sample and blood (not including HSV). They all came back negative, although they told me to redo Syphilis and HIV after 3 months. Not really concerned about HIV though. No bacteria found.

Also visited a GP on the 12th day after exposure, when diarrhea started to worry me. She ordered an additional Urinalysis, which came back normal. She told me it sounded like a viral infection, but seemed kind of clueless about the whole thing.

Right now the symptoms seem to be gone. However, the anxiety remained, and it seems to be affecting me a lot. Every itch I have on my genital causes worries.

The main problem is that in Canada they refuse to do blood tests for HSV-1/2. They only do the swab tests for outbreaks. The problem is that Herpes can also cause NGU, even though I heard it is rare. I was pretty much left undiagnosed.

I wanted to ask if anybody experienced this before. Should I worry about Herpes? Is it common for it to infect the middle of your urethra? I never had any rashes, blisters, even on the tip of my urethra. Should I investigate this further?
Even if I got infected with Herpes, am I at risk of passing it along, given the site of infection?

[Squints9958]

Well your exposure was low risk, condoms arnt 100% effective against hsv but they do a good enough job, given the time frame you more than likely would have had an initial outbreak with hsv, usually between 3 to 10 days and rarely out to 20. Also herpes just inside the urithra is almost always accompanied by sores on the outside, and it would be incredibly painful when urinating. Your chances of infection are incredibly low risk, I would move on aND only get tested if you have any sores sense Canada only will do a swab test. Hsv doesn't only out break out a single spot every time, it can be any where in the boxer shorts area. IF you were infected, transmission really depends on the type, hsv1 sheds very rarely on the genitals, hsv2 is what is commonly genital but have has been showing up more. Again tho I would move on and say you're safe, just if any sores pop up have them swabbed asap.

[vladmirgc]

Thanks Squints,
It has been more than 30 days since exposure. No sores or blisters still.

Sometimes I still feel weird inside my urethra, but I don't know if that is just anxiety-driven symptoms.
Cheers

[Squints9958]

I would imagine so, anxiety causes the brain to feel things that arent even there, like my roommate who thought he was having a heart attack, but it was really just all in his head over anxiety! With how aware you are I would imagine if it was gonna show up you would have noticed. Enjoy life and remember if anything concerning happens us on the forum are always here