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Medical Forum / Diseases and Disorders / Herpes / February 2005Is this an outbreak?
As I mentioned in my previous posts, I do not believe I ever had an outbreak. I was diagnosed with HSV2 in January. I get cold sores on my lip a couple of times a year. My doctor told me that a HSV2 outbreak, would feel the same, except the tingling will be in my genital area. Now earlier tonight, I decided to ahem, pleasure myself. When I was getting started, I thought to myself, "something feels different" The head of my penis felt, scaly, like a bad case of dry skin. So I took a look at it, and it was white, like when you have a patch of dry skin. Then upon further inspection, it looked like there were red dots all over the head. But, I think they are only blood vessels, as the red dots seem to be below the skin. So the main issue is the dry/scaly skin. If I did not touch the area, I would not have noticed anything, so there is no pain, tingling, or anything. Outbreak? What other thing is it? BranLee55 writes: >I do not believe I ever had an >outbreak. I was diagnosed with HSV2 in January. How were you diagnosed? Blood test? >I get cold sores on my lip a couple of times a year. >My doctor told me that a HSV2 outbreak, would feel the same, except the >tingling will be in my genital area. How does he know your HSV2 is genital instead of oral? ... or someplace else for that matter. >The head of my penis felt, scaly, like a bad case of dry skin. <snip> >red dots all over the head. <snip> >red dots seem to be below the skin. <snip> >there is no pain, tingling, or anything. >Outbreak? What other thing is it? Maybe... maybe not. Herpes has an extremely wide range of varying symptoms. I wouldn't rule it out .... or in for that matter. As far as I know, the only practical way of pinning this particular symptom down to a cause is by culture, so see your doctor. But if it's a Herpes outbreak, you'll need to have the swab done very early in the outbreak. Otherwise the risk of a false negative result is pretty high. The test might turn up some other cause though. Could be practically anything. M2 >As I mentioned in my previous posts, I do not believe I ever had an >outbreak. I was diagnosed with HSV2 in January. >I get cold sores on my lip a couple of times a year. >My doctor told me that a HSV2 outbreak, would feel the same, except the >tingling will be in my genital area. Your doctor is about twenty years behind the times. It has been found that HSV1 and HSV2 can each be transmitted to any place on the body. Yes, HSV1 *prefers* the oral region, and HSV2 *prefers* the genital region, but those preferences can be overridden. It is estimated that 30% of new genital herpes cases in North America are caused by the HSV1, the traditionally oral, virus. >Now earlier tonight, I decided to ahem, pleasure myself. >When I was getting started, I thought to myself, "something feels >different" >The head of my penis felt, scaly, like a bad case of dry skin. >So I took a look at it, and it was white, like when you have a patch of >dry skin. >Then upon further inspection, it looked like there were red dots all >over the head. >But, I think they are only blood vessels, as the red dots seem to be >below the skin. >So the main issue is the dry/scaly skin. >If I did not touch the area, I would not have noticed anything, so >there is no pain, tingling, or anything. >Outbreak? What other thing is it? It's difficult to say. Yes, it could be HSV, but it could be dry skin, or something else. It's almost impossible to diagnose anything on Usenet, and even a clear opinion should not be relied on at all. If the problem appears to warrant it, see a doctor. Take care, Mike BranLee, There are so many different things it could be that the only way to know for sure is to see a doctor. Take care, ar >As I mentioned in my previous posts, I do not believe I ever had an >outbreak. I was diagnosed with HSV2 in January. [quoted text clipped - 23 lines] > >Outbreak? What other thing is it? Probably an outbreak cleverly disguised as a yeast infection or the two together. Maybe, because I had something similar recently. I'm the guy that only had the sores in the back. Well guess what? Last week I happened to be kind of itchy in the front, and I looked down there and there was some white scaly skin near the top base of the penis and one small red blister (that looked filled with blood). The blister never popped, but got smaller and smaller until it disappeared in 4 days. Since I had this, I ended up with lower back pain, throbbing aches in the testicles, sore feeling in the scrotum and occasional leg aches and pains especially in the left knee! So I am not really sure this is an outbreak or not, but these symptoms are a first for me. > Probably an outbreak cleverly disguised as a yeast infection or the two > together. |
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