I am scared to death! I somehow got herpes! I have been with the same guy for 3 years and before we ever had sex I went and got a full STD test, including bloodwork and was negative for HSV-2, so I know I did not have herpes prior to him. Anyway... we had sex on Monday and I was itching for a couple days, which I get yeast infections fairly often and was having the typical symptoms of a yeast infection, so I didn't think anything of it. I had a prescription for some ointment that's supposed to be for yeast infections that I got a long time ago. I had never used it, so I decided to give it a try on Wednesday. When I rubbed it on my vagina, it started burning and then I got a painful bump, so I put a warm washcloth on it and it turned into a blister. I am freaking out. I went to Planned Parenthood on Friday and they told me that they couldn't do a swab test because the carrier had already picked up the specimens for the day and he wouldn't be back for 5 days because of the holidays and that it would have to be picked up within 24 hours so we couldn't do that. They tried to draw my blood, but they stuck me 4 times and they couldn't get a vein, so the nurse looked at it and visually diagnosed me with herpes. Of course this made me freak out and has almost cost me my relationship and I am so stressed out and depressed over this. I went to urgent care on Saturday and they did a swab test and I'm nervously waiting on the results, but she too, said it looked herpetic, but that she couldn't say definitively that that's what it was.
I am so confused as to how I got this. I know 100% that I did not have genital herpes prior to being with my before and I have not cheated. He has not had a blood test but says he has never had anything on his genitals in his life or any reason to believe that he has herpes. He did, however, have a cold sore about a month prior to this. We had sex once while we had a cold sore. We didn't kiss or have oral sex, but he did finger me. Could he have touched his cold sore and I got it from his finger? We had oral sex 2 days before that bump/blister appeared, but he didn't have a cold sore then, it was about a month before that he had a cold sore. Also, I know that I already have the cold sore virus because I've occasionally gotten cold sores since I was a kid. Can I be re-infected with a virus that I already have? I'm fairly certain that if this is herpes, it has to be from his cold sore... either from his finger or he was shedding the virus when he gave me oral sex two days prior to me getting the blister. But I've read that you can't get re-infected with the same virus you already have? Thoughts?? Also, he was very rough with me when we had sex, rougher than he's ever been and I got really dry and it hurt pretty badly. Any chance at all that it could be a friction blister? I know that it does look like herpes. I have absolutely no other symptoms though.
Sorry for being so hairy, I'm normally well-groomed, but haven't shaved because of this.