Not sure what to disclose, test are always negative but I'm sure I have it.

[hbubble1]

Hey guys,

Recently been going out with someone, a long time interest but the only problem is I truly don't know if I'm herpes negative. Back in August I had an encounter that left me with irritated and burning lips and later on I developed what looks like candidal intertrigo between my inner thighs that is resistant to every fungal cream and oral medication made available to me by prescription and I'm still following up with appointments to see whats up with that , to this day I have not had a traditional outbreak/sores and the only thing that came close was at one point and only once after shaving I had in gown hairs on my scrotum with clear liquid-possibly folliculitis? I've tested negative for everything, negative for type 1 and 2 at 12 weeks by Igg by quest labs here in CA which I believe use the Elisa Blood test that have a 91% sensitivity and 92% specificity for HSV-1 and a greater accuracy for HSV-2, my doubt on truly being negative stems from the to this day constant mild lip burning and inner thigh/groin issues and that the person I last had an encounter with had a red blister on her lip to which she brushed off as a sunburn but in reality I truly believe it was a cold sore and behold 2 days later my symptoms crop up. At 6 months I requested a full std test for everything but for herpes my doctor insisted on a "igm" test despite me wanting the igg and everything came back negative. Truly going through some mental torture about this, only reason doctors haven't brushed me aside as a hypochondriac is because the skin between my inner thighs truly looks abnormal.Feel like I need to end things with this person at this point I couldn't forgive myself If i potentially hurt someone else. 

 

 

 

 

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2 minutes ago, hbubble1 said:

Hey guys,

Recently been going out with someone, a long time interest but the only problem is I truly don't know if I'm herpes negative. Back in August I had an encounter that left me with irritated and burning lips and later on I developed what looks like candidal intertrigo between my inner thighs that is resistant to every fungal cream and oral medication made available to me by prescription and I'm still following up with appointments to see whats up with that , to this day I have not had a traditional outbreak/sores and the only thing that came close was at one point and only once after shaving I had in gown hairs on my scrotum with clear liquid-possibly folliculitis? I've tested negative for everything, negative for type 1 and 2 at 12 weeks by Igg by quest labs here in CA which I believe use the Elisa Blood test that have a 91% sensitivity and 92% specificity for HSV-1 and a greater accuracy for HSV-2, my doubt on truly being negative stems from the to this day constant mild lip burning and inner thigh/groin issues and that the person I last had an encounter with had a red blister on her lip to which she brushed off as a sunburn but in reality I truly believe it was a cold sore and behold 2 days later my symptoms crop up. At 6 months I requested a full std test for everything but for herpes my doctor insisted on a "igm" test despite me wanting the igg and everything came back negative. Truly going through some mental torture about this, only reason doctors haven't brushed me aside as a hypochondriac is because the skin between my inner thighs truly looks abnormal.Feel like I need to end things with this person at this point I couldn't forgive myself If i potentially hurt someone else. 

 

 

 

 

This is me, too! The mild lip burning cannot be explained by any Dermatologist or solved with any medication. Does your lip burn if you eat certain foods?

[hbubble1]

Doesn't really matter what I eat the lip burning is usually consistent but I did have a moment where it felt like it really flared up after a night of heavy drinking, I had to message my doc for some acyclovir and it toned it down, the relief I got from acyclovir really feeds into the idea of this being herpes. Sometimes stress or anxiety can cause lip burning but I had no paranoia of herpes when I suddenly woke up one day and my lips where burning, I don't even mention this anymore to doctors they just look at my lip and say there is nothing there and that I'm being anxious and nobody really seems to believe that herpes has the potential to last this chronically long in this way. I just know this is not in my head this is irritating, there was a recent post on reddit where this guy spilled water on his shirt and said shirt touched his lip and now he is experiencing his lips burning as well and he is convinced he now has herpes-it's ridiculous stories like these why I  understandably can see why others think I i'm just being anxious.  

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If your igg values in blood report is still negative after 6 months you can consider it to be negative.