Question: Hi,

I am a 42 year old male who weighs 172 lbs. I am healthy so far with no allergies besides hay fever.

On the Thursday the 10'th of November I woke up to four small sores in my groin area in the right side crease between my abdomen and leg about two inches above my penis. The sores were small and looked like pimples with white heads. The were round in shape and two were larger than the other two but were about 1/8". About the size of a normal pimple. There were painless when I touched them and they were circular in shape. The first two healed up by tuesday and but the smaller two are still there two weeks later and a couple smaller sores have popped up.

Since then I have noticed my scrotum has been really red and itchy. also, I feel raw in the creases of my crotch like I am getting jock itch.

I was stressing out this could be HSV-2 because I had protected (condom) sex with a new partner two weeks prior to the sores. I have been feeling great and had no flue like symptoms, fever prior to the pimples appearing.

I went to my physician two days ago and described to him my symptoms. He stated my symtoms did not appear to sound like HSV-2 because during an initial outbreak it would have been more widespread and painful. He examined my genitals and noted the sores appeared bacterial in nature. He grabbed a
black light and noted my hair around my scrotum was slightly glowing in the light. He stated this was indicative of a fungal or yeast infection.
He noted my scrotum was bright red.

I asked him again if I should be concerned about HSV-2 and he said no but offered a blood test. I declined.

He prescribed me two doses of Fluconazole tablets. (150mg) taken a week apart.

Just a little additional history. I know it sounds gross but the past couple of months after mastrabating I remembered I have gotten in the habit of using my dirty socks I wore to clean up with by wiping myself clean. This could explain the fungal/yeast infection but what about the sores?
*Why havent the sores healed up after 2 weeks? The couple that healed still have redish skin.
*Should I still be concerned about HSV 2?

Thanks in advance!
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