I'm in a lot of pain down there, could this be herpes?

Sexual health
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I am 28 years old and had my first unprotected sex on a Saturday (06 Jan), but I knew my partner well enough to know he is clean, and said he is clean and was just tested last September. But being paranoid, I still went to the ObGYN on Monday (08 Jan) to ask about my chances of being pregnant. She said it was slim (6th day since my period started), and there was no ejaculation. She still checked my vagina since it was my first time to go to an OB. Also note that my partner and I stupidly used baby oil which burned during sex, and we had to stop. Since the doctor inspected me, she didn't see anything unusual, but collected samples for a papsmear.

On Wednesday, I developed a very terrible itch on one side between my labia. I scratched it hard, with fingers and tissue paper. Thursday to Saturday, it became painful and looked like a flat sore, about 1.5cm radius. I checked myself on Sunday (14 Jan) and now, two sores developed in other areas.

I had a follow up check up with the OBGYN on Monday (16 Jan)and she was surprised at the sores and said the one I scratched looked like a wound already. Papsmear came back telling me I have fungi and was given this vaginal suppository. Blood collected from me to test for herpes through IGG.

Anyway, what are the chances that it could be STD? Or could scratching one side hard also affect other areas? Could this be an effect of baby oil?

I have another check up next Monday with the lab results, but they're all taking so long.

One of the newer bumps (on the labia) has grown and it's painful now, very swollen.

It's very hard to walk and sleep, and even sit down, and basically do anything. I could feel things going down there, not to mention I also developed external hemorroid making everything down there both painful and itchy at the same time.

I'm feeling very sad as I've always considered myself responsible and now this is happening.

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It could be anything, wait for the results and just be responsible until you know for sure.  I once thought I had herpes and it turned out my boyfriend at that time had given me a staph infection. Unfortunately, this Sep, my now ex-boyfriend actually did give me herpes. Everyone thinks they’re clean until proven not.  He honestly didn’t know he had it until we got our test results after my first OB. But after we broke up, he had unprotected sex with another woman without telling her. She assumed he was clean because he seemed like a clean kind of guy, but he wasn’t.  Also, from what I’ve heard, docs don’t do herpes tests as part of standard STD testing unlesss specifiy asked or there is evidence that there might be herpes.  Good luck. Try not to worry too much until you know for sure.

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Hi Katherine,

I got the blood results already, both IGG and IGM are negative.

However, I read that IGG only shows up 3months from exposure, while IGM is practically useless. Given these, can I still find comfort with my results or are my results useless. I took the blood tests 9 days from suspected expose.

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I don’t think the results are worthless, if you’re negative now and postitive later and you don’t sleep with anyone in between, at the very least you’ll know who gave it to you and when not everyone gets to know that.  Best case scenario, you’re also negative in three months and you’ll know to be more careful