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anon - 07 May 2004 04:00 GMT

i have recently noticed some very small white headed bumps in my pubic area.
I shave most of my hair down there except for about a 4-5 inch length of
hair
that runs from my belly button down to my belt line. the very small white
bumps
are within that patch of hair and down into the shaved part of my pubic
area. they
are scattered and maybe number about 10-15 bumps from what I can see.. I
scratched
some of them ( they did not itch or anything but they look like very small
zits so...) and
they bleed pretty well for a few minutes.. then they dry up and go into the
normal healing pattern is this some sort of herpes symptom ? or maybe
another std ? at first I thot it mite be from shaving but its in regions
where i do not shave also.. sooo any information, ideas, advice will help
thank you

anon

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M.L.S. - 07 May 2004 04:49 GMT

>i have recently noticed some very small white headed bumps in my
>pubic area. I shave most of my hair down there except for about a
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>where i do not shave also.. sooo any information, ideas, advice
>will help thank you

> anon

Hello anon,

It's hard to say. Herpes can look a little different on different
people. What do you mean "bleed", though? Most herpes blisters I
ever saw or heard about release a watery substance when popped, not
anything bloody. If you've got blood, it might be something else.
What, I don't know. Might just be something akin to a zit. You
should probably have a doc look at them, and then you'll know.

Take care,

Mike

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Pain Devine - 10 May 2004 11:44 GMT

When I was 9 or so, I had something like that and it ended up being
"Shingles" which is a form of the herpes virus but is not sexually
transmitted. It's like the chicken pox, you get it once and it goes away.
The doctor said old people usually get it so he was surprised that I got it
so young. Anyway, just go get a test.

> i have recently noticed some very small white headed bumps in my pubic area.
> I shave most of my hair down there except for about a 4-5 inch length of
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>
> anon

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Tim Fitzmaurice - 11 May 2004 10:43 GMT

> When I was 9 or so, I had something like that and it ended up being
> "Shingles" which is a form of the herpes virus

I'll hop in on technicalities here....I tend to do that you'll notice
if you hang around here :)
Its not a form of 'the herpes virus' - its due to a different virus. In
the same virus family sure, but it is different and not a form of the
herpes virus (that phrase is not the most useful but it boils down to the
two HSVs, not varicella).

> transmitted. It's like the chicken pox, you get it once and it goes away.

Basically it is chickenpox, its the same virus reactivating in your body
rather than infecting from outside. Oh and while get one shingles attack
in yourlife is the usual effect some people do get recurrences.

> The doctor said old people usually get it so he was surprised that I got it
> so young. Anyway, just go get a test.

Yup young people its rare, 9 would be very young indeed (and many might
just say oh its chickenpox because it looks like it in some respects -
unsurprisingly). The age relation is tied to waning immunity that allows
the virus out again.

Tim
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