Trying to stop mental windmills

[Antman7]

Hi Terri
Despite your very helpful responses to my previous set of questions, I find myself slipping back into frequent worrying and the perils of Dr Google. Trying to think about it logically I realise one of the main reasons I keep doing the ‘Windmills of my Mind’ act is that the symptoms I’m now suffering seem very similar to the time I was visually (mis)diagnosed with herpes. Perhaps if I describe the symptoms you can let me know whether it sounds like a herpes recurrence? About 5-6 weeks ago I had clear thrush symptoms – red spots on head of penis, redness around inside of foreskin. My wife also had symptoms – this is unusual as normally when I get thrush (which as I said before is fairly often) see shows no signs. She took an anti fungal pessary and I used the cream – hers cleared quickly and mine got much better though not entirely gone. Then about 2-3 weeks ago the redness under the foreskin got worse again – and there is won patch that looks more red – about a centimetre strip within the lighter redness that is much of the way round the foreskin. This area was and is quite tender to the touch; it is just on the edge of the foreskin when it is forward so tends to brush against under clothes. This is the area where the blisters were last year. I don’t think there’s been blisters this time – if there were they must have been few, tiny and very transient. From what I’ve read, the duration of this symptom doesn’t sound at all typical of a herpes recurrence, and given my low negative gig results if I did have herpes, it is much more lily to be HSV1. In your judgement, should I be worried about this – and why/why not?
Many thanks

[Terri Warren]

I think since your wife’s symptoms improved with antifungal medicines, you likely do have a fungal infection under the foreskin. The strip is also a hint – men get those with fungal infections where they rub up against their female partner’s vagina who has yeast. Also, a good hint that this is yeast is that you improved with antifungal medicines, right? This does not sound like HSV 1 to me, not at all actually.

Terri

[Antman7]

Thanks! Next worry 🙂

I take daily steroids for asthma and allergic rhinitis: 25mcg salmeterol and 50 mcg beclometasone diproprionate. Could these have affected igg test results?
Thanks

[Terri Warren]

I doubt it. I asked another expert and they felt it had no impact whatsoever – in fact, if the steroids suppress the immune response the virus might become more active and therefore the immune system might make a response every more quickly!

Terri

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