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Hi, let me start by saying I am not sexually active and have not been for more than 9 years. I have a test abt 2 or 3 years ago (swab on sore in mouth and blood test I think as well) which were negative for 1 & 2. 2 or 3 weeks ago I put paper down on a toilet seat and as I sat it fell into the toilet so I ended up sittong on the seat – although I tried not to do that obviously. Less than s week ago I had a stinging feeling – like something was biting me not pins and needles or a burning feeling like from a burn. Yesterday I noticed a pimple like bump on my butt cheek. The skin was very red, the head whiteish. I scratched it and it bled. Today I have 2 red bumps and am itchy. Where the are located is very itchy. I am worried it could be herpes. The sore I scratched it very red today the second bump is just red no pimple like bump. Thanks for your time.
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You should be seen and evaluated for the bump. I can’t really tell anything about that from your description – you need someone to see it in person. Herpes is not transmitted via toilet seat – the skin of the buttocks is too thick for the virus to penetrate and the part of you that is vulnerable is in the hole of the toilet so that’s definitely not what happened here.
Terri
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So think that through – someone who has genital herpes with a buttock lesion would have had to sit down immediately before you did because the virus dies quickly off of a person – so just moments before you sat down – and they didn’t use the seat paper either and their lesion was in the exact same location on their body as your “cut” – the odds of all that happening at the same time are more than one in a billion.
Terri
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