Very Confused With Diagnosis Any Help Appreciated!
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I wold appreciate any type of advice the community has to offer. Here is the case, I had unprotected sex with a partner I don’t know to well. Since I am usually a very cautious person I went to the doctor exactly two weeks after the incident and told her I had a burning sensation with slight itching and tingling sensation so I wanted to be tested for the most common STD’s, including Herpes. She conducted a pap test and told me everything looked normal except for a small abnormality (she wouldn’t describe it for me) she saw while looking inside. She took a swab and looked at the cells under a microscope and told me all my white cells looked fine but she detected a large number of yeast cells and most likely I had a yeast infection and gave me medication for it. She also told me she would take a swab of the abnormality she saw and send it to the lab to get it checked for Herpes Culture just in case to be sure.
I get a call with the results and the nurse tells me they are negative, but here is the kicker, she said sometimes you can get false negatives and I should not take this as a for sure negative....
Well the results don't make me feel better at all since I finished my yeast treatment and still at times experience a burning and tingly sensation. I've checked and checked and there is nothing abnormal "down there" no lesions, no pain while I urinate, no flue like symptoms, etc. But at this point I just want to be 100% sure, I don't care about the outcome, I will handle the results, I just want to know so that I can prevent this from happening to someone else, I don't want to be the one to infect someone unconsciously that would weigh heavily on my conscience. I asked the nurse if a blood test would give me accurate results and she said Cultures are best. I was negative on all other testing. I'm not in pain, but I don't know if this is just me being overly neurotic about this but I have the right to know for sure and I feel like the people who are suppose to be telling me are not sure themselves! Thank you all and support for all those who were diagnosed.
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lynn00051 veronica_29948
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FelizCastus veronica_29948
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If you are not too late into your possible outbreak and still have vaginal symptoms, including that abnormality, you can ask to be re-tested but by PCR. Better check they even offer this test, otherwise you will have to wait 3-4 months to do the IgG antibody blood test.
Herpes symptoms can be non-existent or mild to severe and come in all forms and combinations, making it sometimes tricky to visually diagnose. Hope you are able to get a proper diagnosis sooner rather than later.
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I called the office and they said the test that was sent to the lab was a Culture (negative) and I can pick up my test results at the office. I'm going today to take a look at them myself and scheduled another appointment sooner to get it checked out. I've read so much about this virus at this point I don't know what to believe. Some say the incubation period is 2-20 days and others say it can take years for anything to show. It's been over a month and I'm not in any severe pain, I would describe it as more of a discomfort. Slight burning, slight itching, and at times a sense of pin pricking me, if that makes sense. The most persisting one is soreness, but I'm constantly checking myself in the bathroom and I sit at work all day so I might be irritating myself. My symptoms definitely don't fall in the category of normal, but for me it's more just knowing if I have the potential to infect someone, I'm sure we all feel we deserve the right to know and educate our future partners on this the way we had that right and were denied the knowledge when we contracted the virus.
I'm getting angry just thinking of how neglectful your doctor was!