Q1. Admittedly the contact was very mild and brief as well as non mucous membrane, and the person denies being HSV+. My only real indicator pointing to HSV is that symptoms started 2 days after the encounter and I didn’t know the person well. Would this scenario be of a high likelihood of transmission?
Absolutely no!
Q2. With an 8.5 month negative test, no blisters, and 3 doctors saying it looks non herpetic, as will as a 1 week course of antivirals with no real benefit, would you be comfortable saying I probably should be looking at other causes of my pain, and quit beating myself with this?
Yes, you should be looking at other causes of this pain
Q3. Considering the following facts, would this even be typical symptoms of HSV….2 day turnaround between contact to severe pain, with no initial skin lesions, no actual blisters ever, and have severe almost debilitating outbreaks one on top of the other, sometimes unidentifiable from the previous one, while also producing no antibodies, and symptoms becoming more persistent with time instead of better with time. So the question here is: Would any of this actually be suggestive of herpes?
No, they would not. You need to put this worry behind you. We always go back to the encounter that started the concern and this encounter was a no risk encounter.
Terri