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Thank you both for the reply

Can someone who has HSV1, has only had one oral outbreak and no genital outbreaks, have their genitals infected through intercourse with someone else who has HSV1 on their genitals?

Thank you for the reply. Yes, that is my understanding of where I am at now: Wait another 6 weeks and re-test the IGG and see. Very difficult to just have to wait and not know but I guess that is where I am.

Hi everyone. First post here. I've been in a monogamous relationship with my GF for three months. A few days after the last time we slept together, I developed painful urination. The pain was limited to the last 1/2" or so of my urethra and the opening at the end of my penis is slightly redder than normal and very slightly inflamed but there is nothing there that I could call a sore of any kind. The pain is worse when drinking acidic drinks or alcohol. I have never had this symptom in my life and I'm in my 40's. A urologist performed a full battery of tests - special urine culture that has to go to a lab to test for dozens of relatively rare pathogens as well as the main things they look for, and blood work (though they didn't do a swab of the urethra). Everything came back negative except for the HSV IGM test which came back positive. Of course, I freaked out. I found out from researching later that the IGMs are not reliable and can be false positive frequently. My IGG for HSV1 and HSV2 were negative. My girlfriend freaked out too and had no knowledge of having any STDs nor has she ever had symptoms. So we got her tested too. She came back negative on IGM and positive on IGG for HSV1 (negative on IGG for HSV2). My urologist is saying the test results likely show that I didn't have HSV1 or 2 until very recently, and was recently infected by my partner, and she wants to re-test the IGG in 6 weeks to see if I have developed the long-term antibodies. Having to wait that long is unbearable. And my GF's doctor is claiming that her passing HSV1 on to me without her having any symptoms, and having it result in my genital symptoms, is possible but extremely unlikely. At the same time, even though I had no lesions, there is no other explanation for my painful urination and slight inflammation symptoms (which have cleared up about 90% now - no more pain after about 10 days.... just some slight residual inflammation). My urologist is providing no more answers right now. Is it possible my symptoms aren't HSV and is something else entirely?