It's all on surfaces where I have shaved. I've noticed them popping up over the last few months honestly but never this many. It does seem like it has gone down some even since this morning. I think I've irritated it myself a lot by trying to look at it and see if it looks like the pictures I have seen. The areas that hurt (around my anus) don't have any bumps at all so I believe it is unrelated.
Some discordant couples simply remain that way, while others don't. Negative results could be due to not having it, testing too early, doing the wrong test (IgG only or swab), or having Type 1 and testing for IgG (the IgG test sometimes fails to detect Type 1; not an issue with Type 2).
I am rather hairy because I have a condition called PCOS. My hairs are also very thick. I have a hard time getting smooth so I go over the same areas a lot and have to do it every day if I want it smooth. I even get these little red bumps on my belly area where I shave there too...It's been happening for years but I'm worried because of the new partner thing
Have you considered laser hair removal? So much better than shaving!!
Oh yeah...had that done in some spots. I'm considering waxing but afraid of the embarassment, lol. I just hope this isn't what I am worried about...I've been googling images all day and can't find anything that looks remotely like what I see and I hear they usually pop and become sores in a few days and these aren't like that. I've felt everywhere and don't feel any bumps inside. Maybe I'll just ask my doctor to order a blood test so I don't have to show my face in there. Would be just my luck, get divorced cause my husband cheated several times and then I sleep with one person after and I get something....
I don't even normally shave there...I just have been because it was something new. I hate the pain when it is growing back...it always hurts.
Much better to do a swab test asap, but that depends on how long you've had the bumps. The swab test is always best, but is only good for fairly new lesions, unless you can do a pcr swab. Otherwise you need to wait 3+ months to do the IgG test (not IgM).
Well i sent my doctor a picture to see what she says...Im so worried and don't know what this would mean for me
How did your discharge loom
My discharge is gone. I had BV characterized by the fishy odor and am nearly finished with antibiotics. The sores seem to have gone down today. Still there but still no pain associated with them.
First pic look like razor bumps, but everybody body react differently, bc I didn't have no discharge and my bumps were white and it was a lot of them on my vulva, it was swollen but the bumps never got too big and they only lasted for like 5 days. It's been 2weeks and the bumps are gone everything looks and feels normal.
You should get those bumps swab ASAP.
Hi, So how do we get tested for hsv 1 on genitals? I thought Igg test would tell you if its hsv 1 or 2?
I sent a picture to my doctor because I have a pretty busy schedule this week. They called and said it looks more like razor burn to them. I've had this razor burn in the past I just don't usually shave as much as I have been. I think it likely got infected or something. Bumps are still there but all I really feel is like a tugging, kind of like when hair regrowth rubs against fabric. I still am a little concerned but I don't even think they could swab as I have no oozing from any of the bumps, some of which now look a little like sores, but my razor burn has been known to do that in the past. And I've been really focused on using witch hazel to bring them down. Maybe I'm just in denial but if I got this, I likely got it from the one partner I've had in the past 3 months. Would be just my luck. I've had unprotected sex with 3 guys in my lifetime and I'm 31. One was my husband of 10 years, then this new guy and a drunken encounter at 18. But I'm not freakin because I really don't hurt except in my anal area where I have a hemmoroid that is obviously flared up because I can see it and feel it and I've had that a long time now. Sitting on my butt all day doesn't help that situation either.
You can do a blood test but evidently you have to wait a few months for the body to build up antibodies
The test for both types is the same. Swab for lesions or IgG without lesions after 3+ months post-exposure.
For peace of mind, in that case, just do the IgG test at 3+ months. In the meantime, don't worry too much about it. May well be just a simple shaving rash, which is how it looks to me, too.
I sure hope so. I got some up close pictures and did see hairs growing out of some of the spots. It's just dry and kind of irritating right now but nothing painful like I've heard and read that herpes ulcers are. Even the doctors office, when I told them it didn't hurt, said they doubted herpes because herpes is generally very painful.
I don't. Understand why 3 month of wait. I dnt have outbreak i. Just. Had a blood test. I tasted. Positive. For h2
Since I found out I've been in shock emotionally stressed out because this is a monster inside of me I have researched everything about it so how can a doctor said you have to wait 3 months to get tested when this thing is in our life forever and it doesn't go away if I was you I would go to a different doctor and ask to have a blood test done they're more effective I work in the hospital and I have talked to other Physicians which than my coworkers and they told me it's better to get a blood test in a swab and you don't have to wait 3 months this is your life get a different doctor to do you the test the reason why I got tested it because I was feeling sick with flu-like symptoms and I ended up having a rash on my arm so I had a worked up to see if anything was wrong with me medically but the only thing she had it was an STD test of herpes. So i dnt seewhy u have wait
You may have had it a long time and never knew. Some people never get outbreaks. I've read that something like 90% of people who have it, have no clue.
No three months ago I had a test done for STD and I tested negative was with a man for 2 years he had to move away because he got a new job out of state so when he came back to visit me I asked him if he had any encounters while he was alone he told me no I asked several times if he did he said no so after he left a week later I end up feeling really sick with the flu like symptoms that's why I end up going to the doctors so she told me I'm going to do a workup on you plus I'm going to do an STD test to compare from 3 months ago so three months ago I was clean so that means I got it from him he was with somebody and didn't use protection you know to get herpes you can get it right away you always contagious so that's what happened to me I was unlucky because a person lied to me and I wasn't using protection with him because I trusted him so now I have this monster in me and I am stressed out because I can't get rid of him I am lucky that I haven't had any outbursts like everybody else but that doesn't mean I won't get money I have to live with this it's awful how can you deal with this emotionally that's the hard thing for me I don't know how to deal with it emotionally I am still I'm shocked especially after I told him and this person doesn't seem to care after 2 years of being together that's my story