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Ocular Herpes HSV2 cross inoculation


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I think I might have mistakenly touched a popped blister on my genitals and touched my eye.I have genital herpes.I woke up with irritation in my left eye and made an appointment to see my GP,and she checked my eye and said she did not see anything of concern besides a little irritation in my eye.She was not concerned, I was not referred to a ophthalmologist.So I made an appointment with one so I could see if I could be evaluated and see what the irritation was in my left eye.After seeing the ophthalmologist and telling him my fairs of possible HSV inoculation in my eye he did not stain my eye but did look through a device where he had me place my chin and after he looked he said he did not think that was the case and said he has seen some pretty bad cases of it.He did prescribe me Tobradex Opth ointment to which I had a allergic reaction too that turned my eyes red.He then prescribed prednisolone ACET 1% 5 ML OP, and my redness went away after a few days using the steroids eye drops which I just wined myself off of not to long ago,I had quick successions of sharp pain in the eye lid area of my eye.Im also feeling different sensation like my skin jumping around my eye and between the bridge of my nose area.I just recently had a pimple on my cheek which was clear but only one and went away after a day or two,I also had a small looking rash on the side of my head that went away after I applied cortisone 10 on it.I really would like to know what you think?Is this possibly herpes related?I would like anyone advice on this and the symptoms I described in my post is this ocular herpes?

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I think in this case it is a small possibility, but it's more likely to be something else. Hopefully you are lucky and it ends up being a non-viral issue.

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14 minutes ago, VVK said:

I think in this case it is a small possibility, but it's more likely to be something else. Hopefully you are lucky and it ends up being a non-viral issue.

I'm just really concerned because it feels like prodrome feeling on my face with the twitching and I had pain a few times in my eye and a little blurry.I don't have any sores but the one bump that looked like a pimple and I did get a small rash on the side of my face but disappeared in two days with cortisone 10.My eye jumped before all of this and I did injure my eye in a car accident where I had eye lid surgery it was almost completely cut off in accident but took skin graph to stitch on from skin from my other eye.I just completed steroid drops that I was on for inflammation.I know the only way to really tell is by a slit lamp exam...but every time I ask my eye doctor who is also a eye surgeon said he does not see anything that would lead him to believe eye herpes.

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