Equivocal IGM, strange symptoms afterwards. Herpes?

Hi. Ive been going crazy these past few weeks. I went in for my annual GYN appointment and came back equivocal on an HSV IGM test. My new boyfriend (only 2 months of sleeping together) failed to mention that he has HSV -1 (oral) which I don’t fault him for because almost everyone does. I, however, have never tested positive for HSV in my whole life. He performed oral on me but hasnt had a cold sore in over 10 years.

This sent me into a spiral and a few hours after receiving the results, I started having strange vaginal and anal symptoms which included itching, burning, discharge and something similar to an anal fissure. I schedule a doctors appointment the next day, and by the time I got to the doctor the "anal fissures" were already healing. He said that the fact that they were almost gone in a span of 24 hours would mean that it’s very unlikely that the anal symptoms had anything to do with HSV. I spoke to my GYN on the phone and she said i probably had a yeast infection. She prescribed a cream that I was supposed to insert to help with the symptoms.

I went home, feeling better (emotionally) until the itching around my vaginal area started to get worse. I went to a different GYN, who said that my area looked yeasty, and that the cream I was using to treat my suspected yeast infection, was probably causing irritation around my area. I stopped using the cream, took a fluconazole pill, and over the next few days, my symptoms subsided. however, when she swabbed me for yeast, it came out negative. She told me that that might happen because I had already started using the cream to treat my symptoms.

Everything seemed fine UNTIL… I was having trouble urinating. It felt like I couldn’t empty my bladder all the way and my pee stream was weak. I had already gone to the doctor twice that week so I didn’t have time to go again, but through messages my doctor told me to treat my symptoms with AZO, which actually helped.

However, about a week after I went back in to have an ultrasound for my ovarian cyst, (unrelated to this issue) submitted a urine sample and it came back perfectly fine. By the time I went in for my ultrasound, my urinary symptoms had already subsided, so I figured that would happen.

Then, a few days later, my menstrual cycle started. All the symptoms that I mentioned before had disappeared, and I felt a lot better. This is the first time that I actually believed all three of the doctors who told me that it was very unlikely that I had genital HSV 1.

It is now a few days since the last day of my period and I’m starting to have weird symptoms again. I was having itching on my labia around my anal area and I now have two weird bumps where my thigh meets my genitals.

This entire experience has been difficult because I have hydradenitis also known as HS. It causes bumps boils, pimples, cuts, pain. ALL of which are symptoms that overlap with herpes. I think the bumps are behaving differently than normal, but my doctor says they look normal.

Ill attach a picture of the before and after of the bumps, which i admit, I picked at for hours. Causing bleeding and pain. Did i mention i have diagnosed anxiety 😦. Im obsessing over this and i need an answer. I got retested this morning so we'll see.

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