Question:
Last Saturday I felt the prodromal stirrings of an OB in my leg. Sure enough, I developed small lesions in my perianal area that have since resolved.

On the same day I developed what I thought was an allergic reaction to the dust or artificial Christmas tree. I woke up with two puffy very irritated eyes that later went down. I was left with a pretty bad scratch on one eyelid from rubbing so much. I applied Polysporin to prevent a scar.

Yesterday, I started to develp a few tiny pimples in the area I applied the ointment, so I thought it was a reaction. It is now puffy around the small red bumps, feels tight and extremely itchy. There is some discharge in the corner of my eye but no symptoms inside the eye itself. I don't believe it is conjunctivitis which I had once. It looks suspiciously similar to a herpes OB. But it is only in the exact area I applied the Polysporin.

I was careful about handwashing after touching the genital lesion, and in the 15 years I've had this it's never spread from my thigh/genitals. But I'm really worried the scratch opened a new port of entry.

I'm going to my doctor this morning, but he is useless as some of you may know from other posts. I read the link on this site to ocular herpes but it didn't clarify much.

I'm so freaked out! and my fiance comes home tonight, I haven't seen him in 2 months. Why now?

If it is herpes, does this mean I can look forward to getting OBs on my leg, genitals, and now eyelid?? Will it affcet my vision someday? SO freaked out!!!

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Answer:
The doctor didn't seem to think it was herpes, "that would be really atypical", and couldn't really provide a better reason than that. Except "it would be all over here too". Oh, really? I have almost zero confidence in this guy.

If it looks and feels like herpes...

He says it look like "a reaction", gave me a topical corticosteroid to apply, and told me to come back Monday if it wasn't improving.

I guess it will improve whether it is herpes or a "reaction" and I won't really know unless it recurs.

Also bought myself a bottle of lysine on the way home. Merry Christmas to me.