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She said the gynecologist did a swab test and everything came back normal. That her PH levels were high and asked her if she had been taking scented baths. She said yes, and told her to stop for a while. She did and the discharge/fishy odor subsided.
I ended up finishing the Doxcycline because the feeling came back last week. It was also accompanied by a dull pain at the head of my penis. Hard to describe it even as a pain more of a general discomfort and it almost felt internal. This feeling started last Wednesday and ended today. So lasted a week. I was then concerned this might be my 2nd outbreak and this might be my prodrome feeling. Called my doctor and he said unless I see sores there isn’t any reason to come in. I finished the doxycyline and put an anti-fungal cream on it after it being present for a week. 1 day after putting the cream on it it felt better and went away by day 7/8. However, I did notice this small scratch on the head of my penis that began to worry me. The girl said it was probably from checking myself 3 times a day or a typical scratch.
To follow up from earlier: What would my equivocal HSV-1 result at 8 weeks exposure tell me, if anything? Retest I know, but does the equivocal at 8 week mean I could be beginning to create anti-bodies? Would a retest and a positive result mean that I have genital HSV-1 with atypical symptoms from my one time exposure in early December?
I know I’m really focused on this papercut appearance of herpes.. but would this picture resemble what a papercut lesion would look like? As you can tell it is so small the only reason I even noticed it is because I was checking myself so often. You really can only see the scab when it’s zoomed in with the camera and when I stretch the skin.