std transmission by hand job

[ganky]

I was with a stripper who rubbed her vagina and then touched my penis.  I pulled her hand away so I guess you might say I received a "partial handjob".  ten days later I developed a small red bump on my pubic area (not on my penis)  Common sense tells me It is an ingrown hair follicle but fear says otherwise.  Please advise me as I am worried that she got some of her vaginal fluids on my and I have become infected.

[Edward W Hook, MD]

This goes on and on and must stop.  You need to sptop worrying about every little bump you detect.  What you describe sounds like folliculitis, not an STD.  You can ask a health care professional to take a look,

There will be no further answers

EWH

[ganky]

Sorry to bother you again.  After having the one lelsion removed, and another skin tag removed I went for another massage and hand job. I was lesion free yesterday.  After a sweaty night I noticed another "pimple" beginning in my pubic area.  Could the abrasiveness of the hand job and the sweating while sleeping caused another outbreak of folloculitis or skin tag?  Or could this be mc or hpv.  Also afterwards she wiped my chest and genital area with a hot towell and then brushed my lips with the towell. Mpv or mc couldn't transfer to my lips or face in this manner, right?

[Edward W Hook, MD]

Your doctor will need to make that determination. Often they can tell with history and inspection. EWH

[ganky]

Many thanks for your quick reply.  What test could be done to determine if it is a hair follicle or MC or HPV. Once properly diagnosed I can began to treat it accordingly.

[Edward W Hook, MD]

These are all questions that you should discuss with your doctor.  For me to try to answer such questions when you really do not even know what is occurring would not be a good use of your time or mine.  How to manage them will very much depend on what is there.  for instance, the management of folliculitis for instance is very, very different from the management of molluscum.  Although your initial lesions was called a wart, you can be sure that a lesion which has appeared over night is not a wart but something else.  Folliculitis is a posssiblity.  The first step is to find out for sure what is going on.  EWH

[ganky]

So sorry to bother you again.  I noticed this AM another lesion about 1 1/2 inches from the origional.  I am going to see my Dr to have it treated.  Is there any way of knowing how many of these are going to appear and how long I can expect this to continue.  Also,  I think it could be MC because the time line works and there was a dimple in the middle of the lesion (which caused me to think it was an ingrown hair).  How can I know for sure if it is hpv or mc?  How does that change anything.  The lesions are not on my genitals but on my pubic mound. Does that make a difference? I read where either you or Dr Hadenfield described it as a mild nuisence.  Is that true.  Is there a topical product I can purchase to help prevent and/or treat these leasions?  Is there anyway I can proactively prevent any more outbreaks?  lastly, how long am I going to have to deal with this.  Thank you so much for you patience, understanding, and feedback.  Ganky

[Edward W Hook, MD]

Of course not.  EWH

[ganky]

One more question please.  There is no way I could have contracted HIV, right?

[ganky]

Thank you

[Edward W Hook, MD]

It is hard for me to evaluate whether or not the docotor might have been mistaken in his/her diagnosis.  On one hand we all make mistakes but on the other, your docotor is a highly trained medical professional.  In the long run, I am not sure it makes a lot of difference.  The chance that the "lesion", whatever it was was due to your receipt of masturbation is close to zero.  In addition, it was now treated and so trying to guess what is was is probably futile.  this is the same reason that I see no reason for you to abstain (any longer) from contact with your wife.  

Finally, the typical time to resolution of HPV infections is a bit longer than the 6-9 months you mention.   The figure more widely used is up to 18 months.  EWH

[ganky]

could the doctor be wrong and it is something else (like MC)  How do I find out.  My wife and I have not been intimate in over three months.  Does that change anything or should I wait a couple of more weeks?  In reading the forum I understand that my immune system (which is healthy) will eradicate the virus in 6-9 months.  Is that correct?  

[Edward W Hook, MD]

You may never know where the wart came from.  Trying to figure this out is really difficult and there is little to be gained.  

As for sex with your wife, my snese is that she has probably already been exposed and therefore there is no reason to not continue to have sex now that it is gone.  EWH

[ganky]

Also, the doctor told me, now that the wart was burned of, I could resume sexual relations with my wife within a week or two.  Is this correct?

[ganky]

Thanks for you reply.  I was at the Doctor's office this afternoon.  He said it was a wart and burned it off.  I am puzzled as everything I read says that I could not have contracted  HPV from a hand job.  Could this have been in my system for years before appearing? I have had protected vaginal sex (outside my marriage) half a dozen times in the last 30 years. The last time being almost a year ago.  I am not sure but  I seam to remember having this before (it went away untreated).  How am I to be sure and what is my prognosis.  The Dr. said to just move on.  Once its gone I can not transmit it to my wife. I am confused, pls help.  

[Edward W Hook, MD]

Welcome to our Forum. there is no risk at all from receipt of masturbation, even if your partner touched her genitals during the course of the exposure.  The organisms are not transferred effectively from genitals to hands to another person's genitals.  this is also true in the case of mutual masturbation although it is typical for people to get each other's genital secretions on one another.  Thus, to summarize, there is no STD (or HIV risk) to you from these activities.  The bump you have noticed is due to something else and your thought about it being folliculitis is most likely.  I hope my comments are helpful to you.  EWH