Hello,
4 days ago, I had an intimate encounter with a female with known genital herpes. She has had no outbreaks in over a year, NOT on immunosuppressive therapy. Our encounter included skin to skin contact of our bodies in general, but I left my shorts on and she had her underwear on as well. I did finger her with vaginal penetration a few times, NO oral sex or anal sex was involved. The next day or two, I begin noticing tingling along my groin and scrotum area. I checked myself and found NO blisters/sores of any kind along my genitals. The next day, I noticed an isolated skin pimple along my posterior scrotum so I went to my doctor to have this evaluated. My doctor wasn't convinced that this was a herpetic lesion but decided to culture it anyway…I will point out, the pimple was pulled off during the swabbing process and was collected for culturing. Here are my questions (thank you in advance!)
1. Based on my story, what are your thoughts on my risk of transmission? I have heard from this forum that fingering shouldn't transmit it but that along with our close body contact (MINUS genital-genital), I'm not sure if that increases my risk at all.
2. What should I make of this tingling business? It occurs intermittently and a part of me wonders if it is psychosomatic as I really began noticing it after I read up on prodromal symptoms of herpes.
3. If my Viral culture is negative (hope so), should I consider IgG blood testing? I know there are a lot of cases of false positives and I don't know if I would be doing myself any good by entering that carousel, so to speak.