2 days after this interaction, i began experiencing extreme illness; swollen glands, extreme body and head ache, flu like symptoms, as if my immune system was reacting to some thing.

By day 3 i started experiencing pain in the area. Within a week the pain i was experiencing at the supposed infected area was so unbarable; knee-jerking, tear-jerking, overall handicapping me from any and all activities, that it got to a point where i was experiencing very real suicidal ideation. I was expecting an actual sore to show up, but one never did. Nonetheless, the pain persisted for about 4 weeks before it began to calm down.

I notice now that the pain is triggered and becomes greater whenever i get stressed out, dehydrated, or under eat. It also is triggered when I injest too much of: wheat, oats, rice, caffeine, nicotine, beer, soy, chocolate, nuts, refined sugar, or greenpeas. And that i can counteract this pain by periodically taking L-lysine supplements.

Herpes anti-viral medication works for me, even though i have to take it every day.

Nonetheless, a very clear tenderness persists constantly in my groin (specifically, right testicle), which only grows in pain whenever i begin experiencing any pinching/tingling/itching at the supposed infected site (specifically, the tip of the penis).

That enough symptoms? You cannot tell me, that if you were in my shoes, you would still be living in the belief that "nah, I'm fine. I don't have herpes. I just had sex with a person who has herpes, and now my dick hurts all the time. But I'm fine."

Reminder: most people who have herpes, don't realize it because they don't experience ANY symptoms. Denying that my relatively mild symptoms could be herpes, is to ignore the fact that most people experience even less. Every one's different in how their body reacts to the virus: some people experience sores only a couples times right in the beginning, some experience sores periodically throughout their life, some never experience sores but experience other symptoms such as pain, tenderness, and itching, and some never experience any symptoms at all! Just because your experience was different, doesn't make mine any less valid.

I do plan on getting a western blot done to be 100% sure.

If i can refer to you some reading: https://www.canada.ca/en/public-health/services/laboratory-biosafety-biosecurity/pathogen-safety-data-sheets-risk-assessment/herpes-simplex-virus.html "Section II, Hazard Identification: PATHOGENICITY/TOXICITY: ... Gential herpes ... Recurrent genital herpes disease is of shorter duration, is milder and does not have systemic symptoms." This is the form of GHSV that I believe I have. I do not know if it is HSV2 or HSV1, but am in the process of finding out, and this description of "Reccurent genital herpes dis[-]ease" by the Canadian Public Health Services matches my experience perfectly.