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No, I don't mind you asking at all. Two years ago I had sex with someone I was dating. We used a condom and it only happened once. This occurred on a Saturday night and by Sunday morning I was burning down there. This persisted all day and into Monday. On my way home from work on Monday, I was in panic mode. I went straight to my local clinic and was seen. I had one sore and my bottom was burning. They said that I had some kind of bacterial thing going on and that I was fine but it's funny because thinking back, I remember she told me I can give you some herpes meds if this will ease your mind but she said she didn't think I needed them. I did tell her that I was scared that it could be herpes. Over the following months I was constantly getting infections, but I'm not sure about sores. Just always feeling a burning sensation all along my bottom. From my vagina to my rear end. It just constantly burned and felt like it was asleep, tingling. I was now in a relationship and was living with someone. But I remember when we first got together, he came out of the bathroom and was telling me that his bottom was burning. He wouldn't let me touch him for around three days. He thought he was having an allergic reaction but now looking back I wonder if I gave him this but if I have been recently exposed, he is the one that I just got back together with over the last three months. It's all too much to deal with. They kept diagnosing me with infections and yeast. My last two encounters were in March, with a person I had been talking to for over a year. One thing led to another and we ended up sleeping together. My ex and I started talking again in April so we tried to make it work but I ended things in June. June 16 is the last time I have had sex. I know that I thought I was allergic to my sanitary napkins or tampons because it seemed like every time I get my period. I start itching like crazy down there. I got a sore in May but it wasn't really painful and my doctor (who I went to see because I had a yeast infection) said it looked like a shaving bump. I had my period on July 6 and was doing fine but then on Friday, July 10, I started feeling ill. I had a sore throat, headache and just felt off. Saturday morning I woke up and my bottom was burning and I was in extreme pain. I grabbed a mirror and went into the loo to take a look. I had three ulcer like sores on the inside left of my vagina. I just freaked out and started digging at them. I know that wasn't good. I pored hydrogen peroxide on them and it burned the hell of them. My mind started racing but deep inside I knew what it was. It seemed like the sores went away pretty fast after that but then I got sores on my legs. They look like blisters. Only one of them itched quite a bit and the others just kind of appeared. I guess it doesn't really matter when or how but my mind is trying to make sense of all this. I don't even know what peace is anymore. My won't stop thinking and my thoughts are not pleasant. Thank you for helping.

Hello, After reading your post last night WCDancer2010, I had a sort of a meltdown and found a local std clinic that was open. I drove over and had a talk with the nurse practitioner. She examined me and said that I had no sign of a OB, so I couldn't get tested because they only do swab testing. It's funny because she seemed genuinely surprised that I was taking it so bad. She kept saying if it's herpes, it's manageable. I had put the two year scenario in my head and now thinking that it could be a recent exposure makes me physically ill. I don't know what to think. What exactly would be considered a recent exposure? Months? Thanks you for all your help.

I have an appointment next Friday but the sores have dried up. I'm really scared now because I thought this was from two years ago. I remember having sex with a condom and waking up in so much pain. I thought I was having an allergic reaction from the condom. That was on a Saturday night. On Monday morning, I woke up in so much pain. My butt felt like it was on fire. I couldn't even sit in my car because it felt like I was burning up. I looked down there and I had a big sore. I rushed to my local clinic and they told me that I must have an infection but that the sore didn't look like herpes because that is what I thought it was. They sent me on my way. Over the last two years I have had a recurrence of infections and the same burning pain on my bottom but the doctors kept telling me it was a yeast infection or a bacterial infection. Now I'm really scared and confused. What could that something else be?

Thank you so much.

Hello, I would like to ask a question. The blisters in my vagina went away within 4 days but since then, I have had 4 blisters pop up on my legs. One on my thigh, two by one knee and the third on the opposite knee. Only the one on my knee itched terribly for about two days before the blister appeared. Is this normal? Is this considered part of the initial outbreak? Will I continue to get blisters on my legs with future outbreaks? I just feel itchy all over and it's driving me a little bonkers. Thank you for all your help and guidance. My head is whirling around and I don't know what to think.

Thank you so much for taking the time to answer my questions. I really appreciate all your help. This has been such a difficult time and I don't know what I would have done without this site.

Thank you!

Thank you for the kind words. I would like to ask a couple of questions that I cannot seem to find the answers to. I truly believe that I picked this virus up a couple of years ago. As I mentioned before, at the time, I only had a single sore but I was in intense pain down there. I went to see the doc and she said that it didn't look like herpes and that I had a yeast infection. Over the next couple of years, I continued to have pain, which consisted of burning, tingling, and sometimes shooting pain that traveled down my legs. I was constantly looking down there but rarely saw anything unusual. It just felt strange. I keep reading that the outbreaks get better after the first one but I am two years in and had a really bad experience this last week. I actually got all the same symptoms as before but this time I actually had three big sores on the inside of my vagina. Which one of these occurrences is considered my first outbreak? I am still in pain even though the sores have gone away. Also, is there a connection with yeast infections and outbreaks? It seems to me that every time I felt extremely painful down there, it was always accompanied by a yeast infection. The dr. would actually show me the speculum, which was always covered in yeast. Does the virus stay on sheets and towels before they are washed? I used a dirty towel to clean up a spill the other day and then I panicked. I ran and grabbed paper towels and bleach to clean up the area. I'm I just paranoid or is there cause for concern? Thanks for all your help. I am so grateful to have found this site.

I haven't actually been tested but I'm positive that I have herpes. About two years ago I met man, we went out on a few dates and after awhile we finally became intimate. We used a condom, which I thought was supposed to protect me from std's. That was on a Saturday, on Monday I was driving home from work and all of a sudden it felt like my bottom was burning. I had never felt that kind of sensation before. When I arrived home, I proceeded to inspect my bottom and all I saw was one sore. It was extremely painful so I panicked and went to my local clinic. The nurse practitioner that checked me said that it was nothing but a blocked follicle. I felt such relief. Over the last two years, I have had the sensation come and go but I just ignored it. Fast forward to May of this year and there it is, another bump. I went to another clinic and I was told that it wasn't anything to be concerned about. I know in June it happened during my period so I just figured it was the pad rubbing on the spot that caused the bump. But now here we are in July, I started my period last Monday and everything was fine and then Saturday morning I woke up with pain in my vagina. I looked at the spot with a hand mirror and I could see three "canker sore" looking bumps on my left side. I immediately panicked and broke them open with my fingers. They started oozing clear liquid and then they started to bleed. I had had a headache and sore throat since Friday and felt as if my lymph nodes were a little swollen. The pain down there only lasted from Saturday morning until yesterday (Monday) morning. The spots are just raw and have mostly cleared up by now and my other symptoms have now gone away and I feel okay. I am beyond devastated and feel so disgusting. How is it that last week I had so much to look forward to and now I feel that part of my life has died? How is it that both clinics totally missed it? I keep googling symptoms, pictures, etc. Hoping that I will find something else that it could be but I think I pretty much have resided myself to what it is. I can't tell anyone because I am beyond ashamed. I have two grown daughters. What would I tell them? "Hey, I have herpes, now what would you like for dinner?" They would be gobsmacked and would probably lose all respect for me. I feel so lost. Sorry for rambling but I don't know what to do.