PLEASE HELP! I am scared!

[anonymous230494030]

Hello Terri,

I have recently met up with an individual, I gave a hand job and then I masturbated myself with the same hand. I have been told by Dr Hook that this is no risk. However, I just feel so confused that 3 days after the encounter I felt strong scrotum tingling like I never have in my whole entire life. It has been 5 weeks now and my scrotum is still tingling strongly. Admittedly, it isn’t as bad as it was 5 weeks ago but still pretty bad. I just don’t get how this happened after a sexual encounter and also 3 days afterwards which hints at the incubation period of herpes.

The scrotum tingling has been ongoing for 5 weeks now; I feel it very frequently up to 20 times a day and the tingling lasts for 5 seconds each. I am just so confused! Please help me!

I also had other symptoms (only felt a couple of times over a period of 40 days): pain in penis head lasting only 10 seconds, electric shock feeling in pubic area (although I am aware this is different nerve altogether than genital nerves), throbbing sensation inside the balls. I didn’t even have anxiety and yet these crazy symptoms have come about.

Anyways, Dr Hook told me that my encounter was zero risk and that my symptoms don’t occur in absence of lesions (I have no lesions at all). However, my question to you is, is it possible that herpes has caused pudendal neuralgia and therefore has an entirely different manifestation altogether and can cause symptoms such as mine in the absence of lesions? Can herpes cause pudendal neuralgia in the absence of lesions?

Terri. I am extremely distressed by these symptoms and I feel like you are the only person in the world (as well as Dr Hook and Handfield) who can help me understand my symptoms. I implore you for help! Please!!

[Terri Warren]

I would strongly agree with Dr. Hook that this is a no risk encounter. Have you ever been tested for herpes in the past to know that you weren’t infected prior to this encounter?
The other thing is that herpes symptoms would not last this long.
I hear that you are scared and worried, but I would like to be the second person to reassure you that the sensations that you are having are not due to the experience you had with this partner

Terri

[anonymous230494030]

Hi Terri,

I got just about 2 questions to try and confirm I don’t have herpes. I am going to list a few statements – let me know if you agree with the statements?

1) I don’t believe my scrotum tingling is due to herpes because I have experienced it for 50 days straight, and the tingling is bilateral. The fact that the tingling is bilateral excludes herpes. Agree or disagree?

2) A herpes primary infection does not cause tingling in the absence of lesions. Furthermore, I did not even touch my scrotum during the sexual encounter, therefore I couldn’t have rubbed the virus into my scrotum. Plus the skin of scrotum is thick as well meaning it is unlikely to rub virus in. Agree or disagree?

3) In this statement I am talking about primary infection only: If I rubbed the virus into the penis, the herpes virus would affect the penis only. It wouldn’t “travel” from the penis to scrotum to just affect the scrotum only and cause tingling as only symptom. Agree or disagree?

4) Someone has mentioned to me that I may have constant tingling for 50 days as the virus is trying to break the skin and cause blisters, but fail due to the immune system, hence constant reattempts of the virus to try to break the skin and therefore cause constant tingling as a result. Dr Hook has said that this is not possible at all and whoever told me is completely off base. Do you agree? (Of course I don’t expect your assessment to deviate from Dr Hook) however Dr Hook told me to ask you questions too since you are the world leading expert.

5) My other symptoms: Muscle twitching, throbbing sensation inside balls, sharp pain in scrotum skin (for a split second every now and then), prickling sensation. These symptoms are not herpes symptoms (especially since symptoms are bilateral and no lesions are present) – Agree or disagree?

Thank you so so much Terri Warren. So glad to be able to ask a world leading expert. Thank you!

[Terri Warren]

1) I don’t believe my scrotum tingling is due to herpes because I have experienced it for 50 days straight, and the tingling is bilateral. The fact that the tingling is bilateral excludes herpes. Agree or disagree?
Agree

2) A herpes primary infection does not cause tingling in the absence of lesions. Furthermore, I did not even touch my scrotum during the sexual encounter, therefore I couldn’t have rubbed the virus into my scrotum. Plus the skin of scrotum is thick as well meaning it is unlikely to rub virus in. Agree or disagree?
Agree

3) In this statement I am talking about primary infection only: If I rubbed the virus into the penis, the herpes virus would affect the penis only. It wouldn’t “travel” from the penis to scrotum to just affect the scrotum only and cause tingling as only symptom. Agree or disagree?
well, it is possible to be infected at one location and have symptoms later at another.

4) Someone has mentioned to me that I may have constant tingling for 50 days as the virus is trying to break the skin and cause blisters, but fail due to the immune system, hence constant reattempts of the virus to try to break the skin and therefore cause constant tingling as a result. Dr Hook has said that this is not possible at all and whoever told me is completely off base. Do you agree? (Of course I don’t expect your assessment to deviate from Dr Hook) however Dr Hook told me to ask you questions too since you are the world leading expert.
I don’t know who told you that but I believe them to be wrong. I would strongly agree with Dr. Hook here.

5) My other symptoms: Muscle twitching, throbbing sensation inside balls, sharp pain in scrotum skin (for a split second every now and then), prickling sensation. These symptoms are not herpes symptoms (especially since symptoms are bilateral and no lesions are present) – Agree or disagree?
Agree!

Terri

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