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Hello Hello!!! Thank you for being such a nice human being! That is the problem, that I can't tell any patern or anything... For months I wasn't feeling anything, for the last 3 months it has been every single month. Right now I have had it for 3 weeks, and I have like rash that feels and looks like mosquito bites all around my body... Nothing in the intial area of the first OB which was the pubis, but mainly on my legs, gluteos, waist, belly arms, wrist, I think even on my fingers... Feels like single mosquito bites. It is fading little by little but still new bites apearing some random places, most of places only one, some places a few spreaded. I went to the general doctor and he said it was a foliculitis and told me to get antihistamines. Never had any of those you mention didn't even know about it... My first OB was 2 years ago, and still don't know exactly what it is either follows any patern as far as I am aware... Thank you very much for your help and support! Have a beautiful day

Hey mate!!! I am in a similar position, but since 2020. Had a very bad breakout, both girls I did slept with before told me they didn't have anything. Got blood tested twice for HSV1 and 2 and IGG and IGM both negative... Visited all sort of different doctors and still don't know what the hell do I have. for the last 2 weeks I am having like a rash all over my body... Legs, arms belly, a lot of red spots like mosquito bites. Went to the general doctor and he said it was just a foliculitis... I have been like this for 3 weeks. I still want to believe it is not herpes, although some of the symptoms tels me it is, blood test says it isn't, and the doctors depends on who it is saying something different each, but that I should not worry about it... yeah, I keep thinking about this every single day non stop, it is just psycologilally killing and impossible to stop thinking... still getting used to it. But I completey understand your frustrations and your anger... is like the end of the love and sexual live... Did you share the pics so that we can perhaps compare and see. All the best mate!

@Flowerteacher55 Hello again!!! I have never have a swab as whenever I have the symptoms by the time I have the appointment usually it is gone. Also none of the doctors said anything about a swab test. How usual is that the blood test can't detect anything at all? How often it depends, I have had every month for the last 2 months, then some times just the ichy feeling without anything else or at least that I could see. Before that for kind of 6 months I did't have anything at all... I can't idetify any pattern or anything that triggers the symptoms. I have read a lot about stress, however during 2 of those 6 months I am talking about without any symptoms, I had the most stressful job and nearly worst time of my life, and as I mention, no symptoms at all. Now I am on vacation having a great time, nearly anything to worry about and I have itchyness all around my pubis and legs. Also, the first OB I got it in my pubic area, nothing on the penis at all. It did't hurt, it hust just very itchy and pimples or blisters everywhere. Here I upload a picture I got to see if it helps to identify ( I apolosgise about the picture though). Could you confirm with that pic that it is definatly herpes? Thank you very much for all your support and help!!!

Hello! Thank you so much for your answer. I thought we couldn't. I know that for example sometimes it is ichy so I scratch someplaces, but I can't really see a sore, and I might scratch somewhere else. So now I read we can, I am nervous about it but I will be extracareful. Thanks again for all your help! I am amazed about how much knowledge you do have.

I am so sorry to hear that. I am going to try to get the swab, although I don't know from were are they going to take it from, as I only have a kind of redness. Not any blisters with any kind of liquid to swab. What you said about antibodies, is that the reason why also the symptoms never goes away? Like your body doesn't produce antibodies and you keep having more and more outbreaks, and also that is how you can spread the virus to yourself in other areas, even though in theory it should not happen? Sorry for bodering you with so many questions, just trying to understand what I can do, what should I do and what precautions should I take. Thanks again and all the best to you!

Thank you Bloomer. Is it is 8% that means that out of trying 100 times 8 will not detect the virus. So it is weird that getting tested 3 or 4 times still shows negative, isn't it? I have read that the Western Blot it is only in Washington University... I don't live in the States... 😞 Are your symptoms and OB getting any better after 20 years? Thank you for your help!

You are not alone mate. Here is my question, Can I spread the virus to other areas to myself after the first outbreak? I thought after the first outbreak the body has antibodies and you cannot get the same infection somewhere else. Thank you and all the best.

Hello Everybody. 3 months after the first outbreak I got tested for HSV 1 and 2. Both IGG and IGM tested negative. Still having symptoms compatible to genital herpes another doctor decides to test me again, I went to a different lab, and still both 1 and 2 and IGG and IGM tested negative under 0,20. I don't know what to do cause I keep having the thingling feeling kind of every month, but not the blisters I had in the first time. Just some redness. I don't know what to do. Do you think it is herpes or something else? It has been already 2 years since I have the 1st reaction. Thank you!

Hello Everybody. After the first outbreak I got tested for HSV 1 and 2. Both IGG and IGM tested negative. Still having symptoms compatible to genital herpes another doctor decides to test me again, I went to a different lab, and still both 1 and 2 and IGG and IGM tested negative under 0,20. I don't know what to do cause I keep having the thingling feeling kind of every month, but not the same blisters I had in the first time. Just some redness. I don't know what to do. Do you think it is herpes or something else? It has been already 2 years since I have the 1st reaction. Thank you!

Behcet Disease maybe? Check for it and good luck.

I do have the same question. I got my first outbreak 3 months ago, but I keep feeling itchy and a weird feeling. At some point I don't know if it is the herpes, but also my paranoia and the heat. I didn't get the sores in the penis but in the pubic area, son I also don't know if the shedding will happen in the penis or just in the pubic are, for what condoms wouldn't help would they? Thank you for the great support!

Thank you so much Eagle and mr_Hopp, I am still having my ups and downs, sometimes I feel misarable sometimes I feel it is not that bad. I think that doctors don't make it easier cause they don't give you accurate information and I believe opinions are divided. A question I have also and I hope sombody could answer. My first outbreak was all in the pubic area, nothing in the penis until the very end when I got just some few spots. So I was wondering if it is my pubis the one having this sheddding as well, or my penis and if so, condoms would not help at all. So just a thought that even using condoms if my pubis with the sweet get in contact with my SO vagina can she get the virus as well? I was even thinking of making a "special underware" with a whole and using it together with a condom (I don't know if you can picture the scene), and if it is what is needed in order to be safe I would not even mind, Do you think this would work? Which part of my body can really shed the virus and which part doesn't, so that I know what I can touch or not? What if for example I am having a shower and just rubbing my body with my SO? There are aso chances to infect her? I also do have doubts about the oral sex. If she does it she could get it in her mouth and throat? and even with condom if her face touches any other part not cover with the condom like my pubis, she can still get it? I apologise, I know I am asking many questions but I am trying my best the know what I can and I cannot do and what is the safest. Thank you so so so much! You can not even imagine how I do appreciate your help.

Hello Eagle, I have exactly the same question. My doctor told me that if there is not outbreaks I cannot infect and also that there is no need for me to take any medications. However I have read so much about this asyntomatic shedding that I don't know anymore what to do... If you find and answer let me know.

Thank you soo much mr_hopp, So who is the profesional who can help me out? Urologue or dermatologist? so even though wearing condoms through my pubis skin I can pass it into my girlfriend let's say, throw the sweating? I feel soo lost and lonely, I don't dare to tell anybody yet.. Thank you so much