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Is it possible to just get soreness with herpes? I remember a few weeks after I got what was the folliculitis diagnosis and everything had cleared, the spot where the bumps had showed up was tender if I pressed on it.

@bambina3 I hope her biopsy comes back ok!! And I hope she decides to have blood work for H just in case.

@wcsdancer2010 Other piece of info in addition to what I just wrote--the swollen node I had was swollen on a Wednesday and went down after my docs appt that Friday when she gave me an antibiotic. So it was swollen about 2 days. Just not sure if the antibiotic helped or if it would have stopped swelling on its own anyway! I know it's hard to say for sure but I'm just wondering what is typical. THANKS!!!

@wcsdancer2010 Yes, I do dance! So cool! And on your comment about lymph nodes swelling-- how long do they normally stay swollen in a typical H case?

@wcsdancer2010 yeah the lymph node stopped swelling within a couple hours of the antibiotic but I wasn't sure if it just went down for other reason. I know my only way to know for sure is to get tested, I'm just really scared I wasn't in pain or itching at all, and probably wouldn't have thought a ton more about it until I got the hemmoroid diagnosis two weeks after. Just so weird, I had never had that either. I read online that some H symptoms look like folliculitis or hemmoroid and those were my two diagnosis by the different docs. Thanks for the hugs. !! (Btw I love WCS dance!)

@mmissouri yes I'm going to get tested as soon as enough time has passed. I want to be totally sure of my results. I really appreciate the support. I hope others see this too while I wait to be able to be confidently tested. Anxious but trying not to be :(

@mmissouri thank you for your opinion. I really appreciate it. I just wonder because all these weird symptoms came after unprotected sex. I did get testing done after, but only after a few weeks and from what I read, I didn't wait long enough. A doctor friend told me that any sort of virus or bacteria could have caused the lymph node swelling. But a couple weeks later when the hemmoroid came, it made me question all of it. Would it be normal in a primary OB to get symptoms and then 2/3 weeks later get other symptoms in a new location? I've never had any of these symptoms since. Is it normal that they would repeat themselves months later?? The only strange thing I have had since is an episode of more vaginal discharge Any further opinion?

Hi all. A few months ago I had unprotected sex. In about 2 days I noticed a small red bump in my pelvic area and a day after that I saw two other small red spots (almost flat I think) that had appeared. I had a swollen lymph on the same side of my groin as the bumps/spots and I felt kind of under the weather. I went to the doc very scared. She looked at them and said definitely not herpes but folliculitis (I had been shaving a lot right before sex) Because I was so scared She looked inside my vagina and no signs of herpes-- just some discharge which she said could be normal. But she gave me antibiotic shot and a pill (one big dose) because I had had unprotected sex. She tested for chlamydia/gonnorhea and those came back negative. Also no UTI and I didn't have a fever The lymph node went down in size within hours of taking the antibiotic. (Coincidence?) I also didn't feel under the weather anymore after going to see her, but maybe it was because she temporarily relieved my anxiety The same day I went to the doctor, the first bump popped and squirted out just like a pimple (gross! Sorry). The other two spots felt a little tender if I pressed them and one of them let out just a little hard white stuff (like hard pus) when I squeezed it a few days later. The third spot never really let out anything. None of the three spots ever itched or were painful. Just a bit tender if I pressed my pelvis around that area I started to believe the doctors folliculitis diagnosis until two weeks later when my anus hurt on the outside and it was red I went back to another doc and she said it was a small tag, a hemmoroid--not herpes. She gave me a steroid cream which seemed to help. Then I read online that a small anal fissure is not a normal symptom of herpes but could be. I had never had an anal fissure before. I'm really scared that the doctor misdiagnosed me!!! I did get the herpes blood test done but I think I got it done too soon-- only after a few weeks. Please help!!