Feel like I could possibly jave herpes, just not sure... please help!

So, I am kinda dumbfounded.

So after a run, I came back to shower. pulled my clothes off and noticed the tip of my penis is red so I touched it with a cotton swab and realized it was a little bit of blood.

Because of that, I suspected it was a cut/scratch/chafing or something that I somehow managed to get, probably from running. So that day, after a shower I decided to take pics to get a better angle (It is hard for me to really see it just by looking down) and in these pics it definitely looks like it could be HSV. I am really hoping it isn't. They looked kinda like POSSIBLE ulcers but there were no bumps beforehand which still gives me hope that it is just chafing or something like I suspected. Didn't hurt unless urine touched it (makes sense also if it was a cut/chafing). Also, inside the penis tip, there were no ulcers or anything which also gives me hope that it is just a cut/chafing/something else. But this definitely looks like something weird when I look at the photos.

Does it look like HSV to y'all or maybe just a scratch/cut/chafing?

I had unprotected sex on Feb 29 with a girl. My most recent herpes blood test before then was on Feb 17, came back negative. I last had unprotected sex again on March 22 with a different girl. Recently got tested again on Apr 3 (didn't have swab availability) and the results were the exact same, negative. Talked to the second girl about it and she says she doesn't have anything, to be fair she has never been tested. First girl didn't either.

April 3 was the day of the run where I noticed it. It lasted about like 3 days before it cleared up, which also has me thinking it was something else because I heard most outbreaks are like 2 or 3 weeks? I don't think I had any swollen lymph nodes or anything, now one time after a shower there was a very slight amount of pus or whatever is usually like in pimples on your face, that came out of the sore/lesion whatever. Which I'm assuming was from it getting touched too rough in the shower. it didn't hurt though.

But anyway, like I said the weird abrasion/chafing or whatever it was only lasted like three days and ever since then, the spot where it happened at is red, like when you get a cut and it healed, you can kinda tell something was there sometimes but that's just dependent on the light. the third pic is what it looks like now.

The first two pics are from the first day I noticed it. The third pic is what it looks like now. It never hurt unless urine or slightly burn when my body wash touched it. It didn't itch ever. It didn't look progressively worse day by day as in a lot of ppl's cases. I'm gonna get tested again after a few weeks. Anyone know the accuracy of iGg tests after certain time frames?

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