What conditions, particularly on a woman, mimic herpes but are not herpes?
By mimic, I don’t mean the whole cycle of tingle-blister-break-weeping sore-heal. I jsut mean things which could produce something which looks like the middle stage, meaning just a pink, raw patch on the surface that stings for a few days, very small.
I ask because I’ve had these periodically my whole life, and several doctors have told me that they are NOT herpes, but I can’t get an answer that makes sense about what they ARE.
Additionally, it is said and I have been told that a definitive diagnosis of herpes requires a scraping to detect shedding virus cells. Okay… this leads me to believe that there are in fact things that are herpes-seeming but are not actually herpes, because if there were not things which mocked herpes, there would be no real need for a “definitive” test, since the appearance alone would be enough, seeing as how nothing else would look/feel like that.
So…anyone want to contribute some suggestions?
(Also, I have never curbed my sexual activity when these things crop up, and none of my sexual partners has ever shown up later with herpes , more evidence that the doctors may be right. I’m just needing a hook to hang it on to explain it. Oh, and it’s not simple abrasion, either, because it happens when there is no abrading activity.)