Herpes?? Very odd symptoms, extremely confused

Alright so this is kind of a long story but I want to try and include as much detail as is possible in case someone can help.

So I've been sexually active with my new partner for about a month now. We do use condoms. About four weeks ago, after some particularly rough sex, I got what I thought was a yeast infection. I had the typical burning and itching, and thick cottage cheese like discharge with no odor. I used some otc monistat external cream to try and minimize the discomfort, as usually my yeast infections tend to clear up quickly and don't require much more than that. Well i used the monistat for a couple of days, and the symptoms started clearing up boom right as my period hits. Well about a day after my period ends I started feeling very sick, but it was also finals week and I had been hardly eating or sleeping so I attributed it to stress and exhaustion, and possibly a cold.

Then immediately after, maybe a day or two later, we had sex again and right after the itching like yeast symptoms started again. So I pulled out my monistat but when I went to rub it in I felt a bunch of bumps. When I examined I found a bunch of small, soft but firm bumps in clusters on the lower sides of my outer vulva. They didnt hurt unless i applied pressure to them, but they did itch. I applied a little bit of pressure onto one and it immediately broke open and bled. There was no liquid inside that I could see although it appeared that they could be fluid filled. I immediately wiped it off with a cotton ball and some hydrogen peroxide.

Within the next week or so, the bumps swelled to about twice the original size. They were extremely painful to touch and very sore if rubbed against as well as consistently itchy. If any pressure was applied they would burst with a clear liquid and immediately start bleeding. However there were no indentations on the bumps, and they weren't bursting unless touched, oozing, spreading, or scabbing over. The ones that did pop did not even scab, it just appeared that new skin had grown over it in a couple days because there was no open wound and what had been popped has already returned.

At this point I went into the gynecologist. She took a long look at them and said that they didnt look anything like warts and she highly doubted it was HPV, but that they didnt look much like herpes either and she was unsure as to what could be causing it. She said she saw no vesicles in the bumps to indicate a herpes infection. When she looked internally, she said she didn't see any signs of sores or bumps on my vaginal canal or cervix. She took a swab anyway and sent it to the lab and I'm currently waiting on results. She also prescribed me 500 mg acyclovir for 3x a day for five days and told me if it started to clear up, it was most likely herpes.

It has been five days so far, and it is not clearing up and is now starting to spread onto my inner labia as well as my anus. However, the intense swelling has gone down and the bumps have now become a pearly pink color, and no longer appear white or to be fluid filled. In fact, they're starting to resemble something similar to smooth genital warts or vulvar papillae, possibly even a skin tag like appareance, and are slightly more flattened and lool shiny. They are relatively smooth to the touch, but the patches affected feel rough because there are several clusters of bumps together. The intense itching started right as they began spreading, about 3 days into my acyclovir treatment

I also got tested while there for HIV/AIDS, syhphillis, gonorrhea, chlamydia, bacterial vaginosis, yeast, and trichomoniasis and all of the tests came back negative. At this point I have no clue what to do because some of my symptoms do match up with herpes but some don't, and the acyclovir seems to be doing nothing to stop the spread of them. I'm also very nervous about the color change, as they were originally pinkish white, then changed to swollen fluid filled bumps with a white/clear appearance, and then changed to these raised like bumps that are slightly more flat and went back to the pink color. There is still no scabbing and as far as I can tell there is no sores either, but at this point I've had these blisters/bumps for close to 3 weeks now. I've completely stopped shaving and I'm

using unscented soap and going commando trying to keep whatever is happening down there steady, but it just continues to spread. I'm also getting very sweaty and moist downstairs, even in cool environments and trying to consistently gently wipe to make sure I stay dry.

I'm honestly just extremely stressed out about this, and am really looking for some answers. If its herpes its herpes, but right now I have no definitive answer and its not going away and all I want is relief. Had anyone else had anything like this? Did your herpes test come up positive?

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