Reply To: Want to close this chapter

[Terri Warren]

Yes, you can put this behind you and move on, for sure. I always go back to the actual encounter to determine risk and your encounter was very low risk. Please think it is very easy to transmit herpes but it in reality, it isn’t all that easy. You are correct in describing this as genital anxiety. And perhaps it is time to give yourself a break and let it go. Men who are uncircumscised often have redness on the penis because the foreskin provides such a fine place to grow bacteria and fungi (yeast). I’ll bet you had that before too but just never had an reason to be worried about it.

You have done enough testing now. Let it go, please.

Terri