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Hello,

I  believe I have recently caught genital hsv-1 on my penis gland. I get these almost rash-like reddish symptoms and tiny bumps and red dots on my penis. I have seen a derm & an infectious disease doc. Derm thinks I may have caught it and prescribed an acyclovir based pills for it for 5 days. It helped reduce symptoms but not completely. Then went to the infectious disease doc who gave me acyclovir cream and pills. I took the pills religiously and the cream I put about 3 times a day for about 5 days. The symptoms have further reduced but not completely. I still see tiny bumps, and rash like symptoms and a few tiny red dots that look to have become permanent dwellers on my penis gland. The rash seems to come and go very often throughout the week depending if my gland is covered. Sometimes the rash is more prominent and sometimes it looks like it's going away. I followed up with the infectious doc and he said I may just be having a derm related reaction and sent me off to see the derm again. I have a follow up with my derm next week.  Side note: I have had a male yeast infection on my penis gland in the past but it reacted well to ketanozal & hydrocortisone. This time not so much.

I am posting pictures to see if anyone can help me out.

1. Do my symptoms look like an a atypical genital hsv-1 infection or am I dealing with a post derm related reaction? Is the hsv-1 making my yeast opportunistic?

2. Can I get it to look better than this with any other self treatments? 

3. Does it look like I am still shedding the virus?

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https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1-AOCqQdXUUjlJuSfFTQe_r0fUQAyUq_U

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Hi @SuperSnap and welcome to the website.

Once you have an established oral HSV-1 infection as you do then you cannot spread it to another location or become infected genitally from a third party with HSV-1.

Your pictures are also not of HSV; it is yeast or a dermatitis condition (meaning an immune response or irregularity within your skin).

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On 5/20/2023 at 4:00 AM, WilsoInAus said:

Hi @SuperSnap and welcome to the website.

Once you have an established oral HSV-1 infection as you do then you cannot spread it to another location or become infected genitally from a third party with HSV-1.

Your pictures are also not of HSV; it is yeast or a dermatitis condition (meaning an immune response or irregularity within your skin).

So I have tried using ketanozal plus hydrocortisone ointment. It's doesn't respond to it if anything it makes the red spots and redness more pronounced. Is it possible that this is my gland reacting to dormant genital virus that is lingering in my glands nerves?

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3 hours ago, brucerbleach said:

Both a dermatologist and infectious disease doctor prescribed him HSV medicine. Why would they do that if this isnt "what herpes really does"? 

To give everyone confidence that it wasn’t herpes related and conclude as the doctor did that it was a dermatitis issue to refer back to the dermatologist to continue with investigations.

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