That’s not it. You can ask as many questions are you want to in a single post, but some of your posts were a single line and that probably isn’t a good use of your money. .
1. herpes sores wouldn’t continue to peel outward normally, correct?
No they would not peel outward – they really don’t peel.
2. Pain associated with herpes shouldn’t stop when the sore shows up, Right? My pain in my finger pretty much subsided when it did and the pain was at my knuckles and my fingertip. The finger tip pain was close to the spot but closer to center of my finger’s cuticle which was likely being irritated by my poking and fudging with my finger as well as from the alcohol. Again the actual sore was painless. I only say sore because I don’t know what else to call it, it was just a spot with the top layer of skin Peeled off but not raw.
I would say that a herpes sore on the hand would almost always be painful. While lesions on the penis don’t always hurt, I have not seen someone with herpetic whitlow where the lesions were not at least tender, if not downright painful. So many more layers of skin get disrupted by hand lesions than by genital lesions and I believe that’s why
3. The hangnail I was speaking of earlier if infected probably wouldn’t have healed up fine intially? (I am concerned because the second patch that rubbed off led directly over where my hang nail was but this showed up about 6 or so days after the intial patch with at least 9-10 days of alcohol irritating it and probably 14 or so days after the hangnail initially healed.)
An infected hangnail could help up without problems, is that what you are asking me?
4.This whole issue was located on a writer’s bump I have on my finger which is another reason why I think it was trauma rather than herpes magically staying on a localized portion of my finger that always protrudes a bit making it even more noticable. Not to mention the exact spot I was staring at for about 10 days obsessively.
Yes, that sounds sound like herpes to me at all
5.I will try and make this my last post and attempt to not be so depressed and maybe have fun with friend again. If anything should come up in my future testing I may be back to clarify it. I am at about 9 weeks now. I will try and take the 12 as confirmation of your’s and my nurse’s diagnosis that that this doesn’t look or sound herpes. Maybe I’ll go back at 16 weeks but that will be for 100 % certainty.
You absolutely can write back any time you wish. I think you’re doing pretty darn well, given your fear. And yes, spend some time with friends again, get out and do things. It might help to allow a very specific time in each day for worrying. Like 15 minutes somewhere in your day. If you find yourself worrying out side of that time frame, try to bring your mind around to a different place by saying to yourself that your worrying time is coming, save the worry for then. Then in your worrying time, just worry away but stop when the time is up and tell yourself you can revisit it the next day if need be, but that’s all for now.
Terri