Johan_glans

I know man it sucks. Best thing to do though is to go see a doctor ASAP. Even though it might feel scary, ignoring the problem doesn't make it go away. Somethings up with your penis go get it checked out. Just think about how much the two of you have been through together. You owe him that much 😛😉

If the entire skin on your glans has changed than it's not warts but it's hard to tell from your description what you mean. I don't want to scare you and it's super rare and very unlikely. However, skin changes on the glans are often the first sign of penile cancer. But it's probably not that just go see a doctor man.

You should always get tested to confirm if you have herpes or not. I didn't and self-diagnosed myself only to find out about 3-4 years later that I didn't have herpes.

You should go see a doctor as soon as possible and stay off google, I'm sure it's nothing but if the skin on your glans has permenantly changed it could be something more serious than herpes.

I agree, you already disclosed that you have herpes, so it's not like you're lying about anything bad. Just tell him your on your period and don't worry about it.

A lot of discordant couples have unprotected sex and just avoid sex when the one partner has an outbreak and never transmit the virus, even after years and years of intercourse. Others transmit it without symptoms while wearing condoms and taking anti-virals. Despite the odds you can never know which group you'll belong to, unfortunately.

You're 16. It might feel like the end of the world but it ain't. Get your shit together life is more than about having a boyfriend or herpes. Go to school, build a career, focus on yourself. Don't get pregnant again until you have built a strong foundation for your life. You're post is kind of hard to read an incoherrent, however, if I got it right he says he's allowed to go talk to other girls but you can't talk to other boys? How is that fair? How do you rationalize that in your mind? People don't respect doormats, so stop being one. If you don't value yourself nobody else will.

Since the swab appaherently has 100% specificity it means that if it's negative than it's a true negative, according to the literature. Since the sensitivity is lower than means the postitive swabs can be a false positive. However, perhaps the swab was taken too late the second time and not enough virus was available thus the negative, while the first outbreak actually caught enough of the virus to diagnose her. Her negative blood test further suggest that she might not have herpes, however, you need to be more specific as to the type of blood test and elaborate the time-frame? It's peculiar that it was first positive than negative though so I don't know. If it were the other way around it would make more sense as it takes time to develop antibodies and she probably has herpes. Either way if I were her I would try to get more tests done to determine her status and get some peace of mind.

The swab test can lead to 30-50% false positives of herpes infections depending on when it is taken. IgM will only catch a recent or ongoing outbreak. The IgG has a sensitivity and specificity of 98% as long as you take it at least 6 months after the initial infection then there's a 90% chance that you will have antibodies. Longer than that lets say a couple years and you will for sure have antibodies if you are infected. There are a lot of conditions which can be misdiagnosed as herpes. Standard viral culture: Tube culture isolation is the traditional gold standard for HSV detection and the reference method against which all other tests are measured (16,17). While the test has 100% specificity for HSV-1 or HSV-2, the sensitivity depends on the stage of the lesion at the time of specimen collection. The sensitivity also varies from 75% for first episodes to 50% for recurrences (18,19). Again this mean if you get a negative swab test you are fine, but if you get a positive there is a significant chance that it is a false positive. Commercial gG-based type-specific tests: The dual enzyme immunoassay test (HerpeSelect HSV-1 and HSV-2 enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay) has reported 97% to 100% sensitivity and 98% specificity for HSV-1 and HSV-2 (41). Source: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2095011/

The test I took has a sensitivity of 98% and a specificity of 98%, which is much higher than the swab test. The only caveat being that it takes time for antibodies in your blood to build up. However since my "infection" happened 4 years ago I should have antibodies in my blood by now for sure. So you're much more likely to get a false positive or false negative from a swab test on a lesion than from a blood test. Appaherently after talking to an std nurse and a doctor there are many skin conditions that can mimic herpes it's just that herpes is often the most common one due to its high prevalence and doctors usually go with what's most common. I don't know really what to think but I don't think I need to any longer disclose that I have herpes since all my tests are negative.

You will be rejected unless you are older or really hot. It's just the harsh reality of having herpes and disclosing. Where I live doctors tell us not to disclose because the actual risk of transmission is really so low if you use protection. The reality of dating with disclosing herpes is that most people will reject you unless you somehow wait long enough for them to develop deep feeling for you without having sex and then you disclose. But the fact is people are so freaked out about STDs that people with STDs even harmless ones like herpes are viewed like lepers by others and sadly by themselves. Having said that you should leave your boyfriend if you are not happy but don't fool yourself into thinking it will be easy for you to date especially if you choose to be upfront about your herpes, cause it won't. Unless you are super hot or a celebrity or really rich. I'm not trying to be mean but realistic. Good luck though!

Hi! So I'm going through a pretty weird time right now. Four years ago I had sex with this awful succubus of a woman, a real evil person and I contracted what I thought was herpes. At the time I was not leading the best life and was basically on the brink of death from drug abuse. Anyway after having sex with this woman a week or so later I developed large blisters on my pelvic area (nothing on my penis) but it did hurt to pee and these blisters eventually burst and then crusted over and healed but left scars for about a year or so. Anyway my mother was a doctor and she gave me antiobiotics at this time and the painful urination went away. Ever since then I was convinced I had herpes, I never went to see a doctor or anything cause I was too busy doing drugs but eventually I got sober and started thinking about my health. I never really had another "outbreak" apart from one time when I got a large fluid filled blister when I was really sick, however, after a day or two it just disappeared and never turned into an ulcer or anything. Anyway during this time when I had herpes I did have unprotected sex with a couple of women and I never infected anyone else. Anyway so to the weird part. I finally decided recently to get tested for my herpes to see if maybe what type I have or whatever. So I got tested for HSV1 and HSV2 both the IgM and IgG and they both came back negative. So I tested myself again for HSV2 and again negative. I'm going to get tested one more time because I have been convinced that I had genital herpes for years now but I don't know. My mother says it could have been a range of different skin conditions from folliculitus to syphillis or even chlamydia since my immune system was so messed up from the drugs and being on the brink of death it could've been anything. And she's an OB/GYN and the Chief of Medicine at the local hospital so she's got years of experience with this. I just can't wrap my head around this. I've been disclosing herpes and getting rejected for years because of it. Could it really be so that I don't have it?