I've also experienced the same symptoms that many people are discussing here. It started out as a mild tingle that worked its way posteriorly. It started to feel like i had a golf ball between my legs, even though the doctors said it looked fine. I also developed a cough and coughed up a lot of sputum around that time. It then started to wake me up in severe pain in the middle of the night along with night sweats. I took every pain medication on the market with no effect. Eventually I went to the ER and was checked out and tested. The IGG/IGM serum tests showed me as negative both at 3 weeks post infection and 3 months post infection. When I went to the Doctors, they kept telling me that I didn't have anything, especially because I never had any of the typical herpes sores. For the past few months, the pain has transitioned from an intense penile pain to a dull perineal pain, along with nerve tingles down the left leg, joint pain, and fasciculations. I had every test done; cystoscopy, colonoscopy, and multiple STI tests. Everything came back negative. Until finally I received a positive test with a urethral swab HSV-2 test, which finally gave me answers... although not the one I wanted. Blood work was also done at the same time to test for HSV-2 and came back negative.
I think that because the virus enters the nervous system, it managed to infect and has been damaging the nerves. Either that, or has caused an autoimmune response. As for why I'm still negative in the blood work, I think it might be due to the time it takes to be seroconverted or that this is an entirely different strain of the virus that can't be detected through the routine blood work available right now. I'm posting this now because I think more focus needs to be on herpes right now. It's not just a mild skin lesion that goes away. It can be devastating both physically and emotionally.
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