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Medical Forum / Diseases and Disorders / Herpes / March 2005Question about blisters and sores
Hello all, I know this may be a dumb question, but after having one outbreak after another, I am trying to read as much as possible and learn about herpes. My OB just ended and now another one seems to be starting just a week or so later...lucky me! The good news is that it seems a little less severe. I found out that I had a urine infection going on also and had to take some antibiotics, but I think the UTI was caused by the herpes and that was causing some other problems with the urination and burning there. Anyway, I was reading that the blisters are usually in the form of clusters of blisters on top of red skin in the genital area. Mine are a little different. What I get is ONE small "whitish" blister on top of some reddish slightly swollen and a little itchy skin. The blister if touched feels prickly and a little achy but not really that sore. I have gotten a couple of sites like these at one time, but each only has one blister in the site. Most are on the inner thighs, near the groin or anus/buttock area. I didn't get any right on the penis yet. I was just wondering if this is normal to get only one blister like this, instead of a cluster? Usually the time it takes to heal is about 3-4 days tops. They just seem to dry up or get a scab and then it heals. Usually I am noticing that the blisters form on skin that previously had aching going on a few days prior. I seem to get aching going down the thighs and then I get this itching and then the blister/sores that form in that area that had the aching previously. I just want to know a little more about this because it is really new to me and baffles me, and I am still really scared right now. Thanks, Tom >Hello all, >I know this may be a dumb question, but after having one outbreak after >another, I am trying to read as much as possible and learn about herpes. My [quoted text clipped - 3 lines] >antibiotics, but I think the UTI was caused by the herpes and that was >causing some other problems with the urination and burning there. >Anyway, I was reading that the blisters are usually in the form of clusters >of blisters on top of red skin in the genital area. Mine are a little [quoted text clipped - 10 lines] >down the thighs and then I get this itching and then the blister/sores that >form in that area that had the aching previously. >I just want to know a little more about this because it is really new to me >and baffles me, and I am still really scared right now. >Thanks, >Tom There are a few things that seem unusual with your blisters, but none of them are enough, together or separately, to rule out herpes, though, frankly, you've got so many borderline things going on, I'm not sure what you've got. Herpes blisters usually appear in small clusters. Each individual blister is usually very small, like the head of a small pin. The blisters are usually somewhat fragile, meaning they are easily broken open, whereupon they release a clear liquid (reputedly teeming with new viruses). Once broken, the healing process more or less begins, which may include light scabbing. It could very well be that what you have going on is indeed herpes, but almost everything you've described about it the border of the range of what most people experience. The things that seem to point to HSV are the recurring nature, the neuralgia, the premonitory itching (prodrome), the general location, and the general description.. While confessing that I don't recall all your particulars, it would seem that you and your doc need to mesh all that with your borderline test results, your sexual history, and the results of any other tests and cultures, and the host of other possibilities (whatever they may be) in arriving at a conclusion that you can feel comfortable is correct. Mike Tom!! Everyone's herpes is different. Forget about 3/4 of everything you read about herpes - it's incorrect. Some people have clusters of blisters. Some people have only one. Some people have a rash. Some people never have an outbreak. Take care, ar >Hello all, > [quoted text clipped - 27 lines] > >Tom Hello ar and MLS, Thanks for your input. Well I sometimes get one blister on top of reddish swollen circles of skin in the genital area and sometimes I get 1-3 red pimple like things without blisters in the general close proximity. Yes I was just reading that some people have different types like you were saying. Getting back to MLS about the blisters, yes they are very small blisters like the head of a pin and whitish clear looking, and they do break easy I found out. The blister/sores seem to completely heal from start to finish in 3-4 days I think. I sure am having outbreaks, but why so many recently I am not sure other than the fact that I have been under extreme stress at home and at work and previously was drinking alot of coffee, not getting enough sleep and eating bad, plus the holidays just had ended and we had a terrible winter here in RI. What I am not so happy about is the fact that I used to get 4-5 smallish outbreaks per year that lasted 7-10 days, turned into this monster one that lasted 5 weeks! The funny thing is the sores I used to get previously used to hurt like hell and turn into open wet sores, but now these ones aren't hurting as much, but I am having more neuralgia and flu symptoms etc. I am nervous that this will happen again and I really hope not. Most of the aching is gone, as well as the flu like symptoms and burning. Right now I have minor aching in the thighs only, some itching and continual blister/pimple like things that are forming on the inner thighs. When I see my doctor in a couple of weeks I plan on telling him all the details and see if he thinks I need some medicine. I rather not personally, but I'll let him make the determination. Thanks, Tom > Tom!! > [quoted text clipped - 38 lines] > > > >Tom |
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