Question:
Ok, so I am totally freaking out right now, but trying to rationalize this.

I went to me doctor about a puffy lip. It looked like someone just slipped a jellybean under the skin on one side. I have been looking at pictures online and NOTHING I can find even comes close to what is on my lip.

The doctor said "It looks like it might be herpes" and then did a culture. That scared the crap out of me. I have been with the same girl for 7 years and neither of us have had anything like this at all. We have both had a canker sore or two during our lifetime, but nothing that looks like a breakout in the photos I see on Yahoo Images. It would be one, and then some baking soda would take it away in a day.

The thing is, I thought it was some sort of bug bite or allergic reaction, so I tried to pop it. A small amout of clear stuff came out but I was really trying. Popped it with a needle and squeezed it a lot! The next morning the skin came off and it swelled up to the jelly bean size. Take it that now the layer of skin was missing on top of it and there were a couple of craks in the skin where I had been squeezing really hard. ALL OF THIS HAPPEND BEFORE THE DOCTOR LOOKED AT IT!!!

^^just so you can think of what the doctor (registered nurse) saw.

Well, last night I took a few benadryls and the swelling has gone WAY DOWN...but now there's a kinda gross white film across it...

...which I think is just it trying to scab over from me ripping the skin off like an idiot and that's all.

There's been ZERO PUSS and nothing that looked like a cold sore at all. (meaning red around the outside and white in the middle. I think the only reason it hasn't scabbed over already was because it's moist by my mouth.

Questions:

The doctor made it sound like anyone who's ever had a canker sore in there mouth in their lifetime has herpes...is this true?

Does my description of a plain swollen lip, looking nothing more then like someone slipped a jelly bean under the skin sound like something anyone here has experienced?

The culture is not coming back until NEXT FRIDAY, so I am basically just scared and stuck waiting.

What do you think? Denial? Or miss diagnosed?

It just felt like the lady didn't believe me that I wasn't sleeping around or anything and I know my girl hasn't been messing around on me.


Also, it happend REALLY SUDDEN. I was sitting on the couch watching a movie and there was NOTHING there and all of a sudden that spot on my lip started swelling. Ate some Dominos Pizza (ham and cheese) and had some sprite. That's all I ate.

...do outbreaks happen that fast? Seriously, it was like nothing one seccond and jelly bean sized bunp the next.

I am just thinking that if I didn't rip the bump apart myself, the doctor wouldn't have been so quick to look at it and think it's something that it may not be. Then again, she was a doctor.

It just seemed like she didn't want to waste her time with a culture (which I made her do) and she didn't want to give me anthing for it....herpes related or allergic reaction related.


Anyways......what's your opinion?

Does it sound like anything herpes related?



Sorry for the rambling, I am just scared and confused.

Thanks for your time,





(I posted here and in newly diagnosed...wasn't sure which one to post under..)

Answer:
anyone?

Answer:
please answer my questions someone? :cry: