Reply To: Did I just get HSV2 on the mouth?

[Zoros_LekLek]

Slept with this person on Tuesday night. I did kiss her; she also performed oral sex on me, albeit rather briefly. I guess this would still work with an HSV1 infection, since the virus would *want* to get lodged in my mouth, and not below the waist. I have no symptoms below the waist whatsoever.

I got flu-like symptoms on Thursday. Most of the day I just felt completely exhausted, my tonsils and lymph nodes were huge, and I had chills non-stop.

Sunday morning I noticed a bump on my lip, and what seemed to be a cold sore right below it. I squeezed my lip, producing a clear liquid. That night, the lip was swollen and starting to crust, as per the picture. This was yesterday.

This morning, I went to the doctor’s. He was uncertain whether he could still get a swab, but he cut off a layer of skin with a scalpel, and took a sample. He’s also running antibody tests, and tests for other STDs. Clearly, the lesion itself looked suspicious enough that he wanted to run the tests. He also, however, said that the pace of development from sexual encounter to symptom production seemed a bit fast, and made him hesitant to say, one way or another, whether this was herpes. He also said it could be gonorrhea or chlamydia, which I guess can also migrate from the genital area to the throat. Does all this seem accurate to you? Test results will be done in about four or five days, but I’d like to get some sense of what to expect.