Possible HSV Exposure

[Brentwood1946]

Hello,

I recently came into contact with a potential HSV exposure. I (Male) received oral sex with a condom on from a potentially high risk female. Around the same time I contracted COVID. About 2 weeks post encounter I got what appeared to be some chaffing between my legs. I had excercised for the first time in a few months wearing a pair of comprssion work out pants which were too tight, so I wrote those symptoms up to chaffing given they showed up the day after I worked out. Shortly after the chaffing went away (3-4 days) I had soreness in my groin (day 21 post encounter), which felt like a sore lymphnde. The next day I had mild chills, pain in my lower back & abdomen & pressure in my pelvis and frequent urination, and a persistent cough. Lastly I had some mild shooting pain deep on the sides of my pelvis in my groin. The chills and abdomen pain lasts 3 or 4 days, the cough showed up a few days before the chills and lasted about 2 weeks. The pain in my groin has now lasted 3 weeks but is mostly gone. Have not had any lesions that I have seen so far. I have been diagnosed with chronic prostatitis so I don’t know if any of this could be related to that.

At th 28 day mark I went to the doctor and he did and IGM HSV test, Syphilis, and HIV test. All or which came back negative.

On the 6 week mark I ordered a full panel std test, including HSV IGG, HIV, Syphillis, etc. And all came back negative.

Given the symptoms and tests, would it be recommended to test again at the 12 week mark? And should I consider a western blot test at the risk of potential GHSV1? I understand the western blot is much more accurate in detecting hsv 1 as compared to IGG.

Thanks

[Terri Warren]

Given the experience of receiving oral sex with a condom on, I would say your risk of getting HSV is just incredibly low indeed! And the HSV that you would get form receiving oral sex would be HSV 1, not HSV 2 as you seem to know. If you did the blot and it was positive for HSV 1, I suspect it was NOT as a result of your sexual encounter described above. And a positive HSV 1 result on the blot would not tell you the location of your infection either.

None of your symptoms are worrisome to me at all and great news about the negative tests.

Terri

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