October 19, 2014 at 5:53 pm #1537

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Wow Terri, great response. Thank you for your analysis. Very helpful.

I have not had a classic blister lesion yet (so no swap test). I have had multiple red sores. One on my penis and one in groin right above my genitals. Both have occurred during this 7 week span. The penis one came right on outbreak day. When I showed them to two different doctors they both thought it looked like Herpes. One gave me a 10 day supply of Acyclovair around week 6. No more since then to answer your question so only a ten day supply at week 6. My penis red sore went away within 2-3 days of acyclovair and never became a blister.

The other red sore came one day after I was experiencing intense tingling, run down feeling. It appeared above my genitals and it was very painful to touch. It never manifested into a blister and went away in 1 day.

If this isn’t Herpes, I wonder what these red sores are? I really want to believe the analysis that it is something upper respiratory but what about these red sores that come after these prodrome-esque symptoms? Having ongoing itchiness, tingling around my body and itchiness especially in my eyes is very strange.

I don’t understand why they did a PCR blood test. The health care provider said they would check for HSV-1 & 2, took blood and a couple days later I get the results and it says PCR negative for HSV-1 and 2.

To answer your question, I have never had a cold sore in my life. I have a history of canker sores, I used to have those all the time but never a cold sore. And I’ve had one lip cold sore and nose cold sore that’s trying to come out in a span of 7 weeks. Does GHSV-2 ever cause face cold sores?

Something to consider when thinking about my case, everything hit me like a tidal wave. One day I was feeling 100%. The next day I started to get extremely tired and develop flu like symptoms. I looked at my groin region and found:

Molluscum Contagiosum

I think this has been complicating my case. I think whatever is inside of me right now, triggered these up. The doctors zero in on this and not what is going inside my body. Is it just Molluscum? It is multiple things going on, I don’t know. I had about 6-7 bumps form around the vein line. I have confirmed via biopsy that this is Molluscum. But Molluscum doesn’t explain these other symptoms like the itching, tingling, cough, sweatiness, fatigue that has been happening.

If it isn’t Herpes, the question remains, what is going on with my health? My symptoms are almost daily. I’ll feel semi-normal then I have an episode where I start to feel tingling, start to develop cough, get really sweaty, itchiness, nose gets painful (and looks like it starts to blister). What is that? I have been managing these pretty well by taking ibuprofen and L-lysine but the fact that it’s daily has been tough.

Also, I’m noticing similar symptoms with my parter during the same time frame which is more information in this overall picture. She developed cold sore, flu, itchiness in eyes and several of the same symptoms.

With this information, what do you think? Thanks again for your excellent expertise!