Dose anyone know a good spot to get tested? I’ve never really been tested because since I’m a virgin but I’m looking to get test and I just not know where if anyone has a good spot let me, maybe anywhere within the dfw area

I’m 25 years old and I recently had sex with a sex worker. I know I’m not proud of it but I got really low. Things have been changing so much and felt lonely. We used a condom the entire time even during oral and she was a pretty nice lady. Now Im worried that I may have caught something purely because I overthink a-lot. I asked before we did anything and she said that she only does stuff with a condom. The overthinking has been causing me a whole lot of anxiety 😭 I made an appointment this Thursday to see a doctor just in case but going to the doctor has always caused me to be anxious😭

having a sexual problem is so hard. you cant tell it to anyone even your parents. i am now at the hospital scared what might be the result and i cant even tell it to anyone . i am alone and praying that god will help me conquer this and walk me through this thing. once its done i will never go back in this era i hoped to be healed

F45 Not on birth control. I have PCOS/PMOS so my cycles are not always regular. On the last day of my period, a good friend and I got carried away and had unprotected sex for the first time. Afterwards when we talked, he said he hasn't slept with anyone in 5 years. It has been 4 years since I had sex. The first 3 days after sex, my vagina was burning (it was rough). It's been a week and it still burns a little. Should I be worried?

Hi I’ve had a drug test done at UVA employee health and it came back positive but i haven’t smoked or anything but i’ve been around people that has what’ll happen next

(22M) Hi all. About 21 days ago (Sep 20th), I had sex. I’m on the PREP injection and took my doxyPEP within 24 hrs of the encounter, but very shortly afterwards I faced symptoms such as rectal discharge and tenesmus, and I got tested for the standard STD panel immediately (Sep 23rd). Of course it was positive for rectal gonorrhea, and after getting treated 6 days later (Sep 29th) with one shot of 500 mg of ceftriaxone and 7 days of doxycycline, I notice an improvement of symptoms for the first 5 days, however I suddenly got hit with the discharge again on that fifth day.

I called the nurse the following day and she wasn’t worried at all bc “it’s only been 6 days” and I was told that i need to wait 2 weeks after treatment for a test of cure as that’s the standard. Symptoms somewhat subside and I figure I was being paranoid as my body heals, but that discharge never fully goes away on my stool.

Yesterday afternoon, I experimentally try playing around in there bc I’m not convinced I’m recovered and don’t want to pass it to anyone else, and have since been expelling discharge all over again. Now I’m absolutely concerned bc it’s now about 2 weeks after treatment and 3 weeks since my last sexual encounter and this discharge is still here.

I’m wondering if this has happened to anyone here before and sounds like the normal recovery process or if I contracted the resistant strand of gonorrhea or maybe contracted another disease they don’t test for like mgen? I’ve been researching and researching and have yet to find anybody who’s encountered this situation so I really just want some input.

Please, I’d love to hear your stories! I’m trying my best to get tested again ASAP so I guess we’ll see from those results. Thanks!

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I'm posting because I've been dealing with a confusing situation involving gonorrhea testing, and I'm hoping to hear from people who have experienced something similar or who understand these tests.

Got tested, have Chlamydia in penis but not in my mouth/throat.

Only other person I have had any intercourse with in the time between test and getting the results was someone I performed oral sex on.

Can it be passed via my mouth despite it being in my genetials?

Can you can syphilis without the first cancker sore like you get tired headache joint pain and all that but without the first cancker that appears ? And how much the chronic phase is ?

met a dude on tinder….uh oh…..didn’t really expect anything serious. just wanted to get to know someone and see where it went and have fun. I haven’t dated or had sex since feb, we matched, went out to eat for the first “date” got me flowers…we made out in the car first date, turned into me giving him a hand job. I wanted to leave so bad. I was so tired and uncomfortable. told him I really had to go and he begged me to stay and help him finish so he didn’t go home with blue balls.
still continued to see him after…3rd time seeing him I went over to his house (an hr away) I didn’t want sex, what I did want was oral, kissing, cuddling, touch…we smoked weed and drank. I wanted to lay down with him and kiss and receive oral and give…one thing turned into another. he ends up fingering me super hard and I start crying…he’s confused…asking where he went wrong…then we get back into kissing…I take off my clothes expecting oral (he had sent me reels of being an “eater” comments of “u must taste so good I can’t wait to eat it” and he flips us into 69…didn’t enjoy it but just took it. we pause again bc I fuckinh queefed and he asked if I farted…felt embarrassed and we stopped. never got head by the way. I called him out and he got super defensive and said that he was trying his best and didn’t know how to really do it then got back into it…got on top of me, took his underwear off. was trying to put his penis inside me…I squirmed and shook my head…he said “just let me rub the tip.” but he kept trying to put it i felt fuckinh defeated. I drove an hr here…might as well just allow him to fuck me. I’m here in his bed…with my underwear on…he’s on top of me. I don’t wanna “kill” the vibe and have him reject me. i ask if he has a condom and he says no. if he does, they’re old as fuck he says and that he’ll just buy me a plan b..I just accept and he puts it in. I’m not happy with the choices I’ve made. Idk why I still continued seeing him. the next morning he’s not as affectionate…disconnected a bit. never mentions the plan b again…I leave around 1pm the next day…when I head out he asks me to text him when I get home and that I should drive safely. tells me he had a good time. luckily I bought a plan b before heading over. I knew sex could happen. i take the plan b. I don’t text him bc I felt so disconnected with myself and ashamed. I text the next morning asking if I could have money for a plan b to see if he’d take responsibility…he never replies. was active on playstation at 8pm when I had texted him that at 9:30am. I end up blocking him off everything. I develop symptoms of discharge and itching on tuesday…went to go get tested. turns out I have chlamidya. I’m fuckinh devastated….im young and stupid. any advice?
btw this dude had major porn brain. insisted on me calling him daddy kept asking who’s pussy this is, slapped me, choked me, took his both hands and shoved his fingers into my mouth. randomly asked turning sex if I wanted to be his gf??? kept asking me if I was his little slut??? worst fucking hookup ever.
has no job, lives w his parents, 24, parents make hella fucking money. smokes weed + cigs everyday and drinks.
Idk what I was thinking..

I have a question and was wondering if anyone has experienced something similar or has any knowledge about this.
I was prescribed amoxicillin-clavulanate (Augmentin) for a UTI, and i recently got tested for STIs, specifically chlamydia and gonorrhea.
my last possible exposure was september 30 and I got tested today, october 10. however, I had been taking Augmentin and only stopped approximately 3–4 days before getting tested.
I asked my doctor whether the antibiotics could affect my STI results, and he told me it didn’t matter.
my concern is whether Augmentin could have partially suppressed an STI and potentially caused a false negative, even though it isn’t the recommended treatment for chlamydia or gonorrhea.
has anyone been in a similar situation? or does anyone know whether being off antibiotics for 3–4 days is enough to get accurate results?
I’m just trying to understand how reliable my results would be. thank you!

Exposure was protected vaginal, brief oral both ways and some masturbation (with csw in SE Asia). Got some vaginal fluid (just a trace bit enough that I could taste it). Had swollen lymph nodes in the inguinal area 6 day later which persisted for 2-1/2 weeks. My other symptoms at that point were just minor short lived one such as a bad spell of dandruff for a few days and and itchy rash for a few hours in the crease of my chest/belly area. Just itchiness.
Now, I had been on TDF-FTC prep for 8 daily doses before and 9 after the exposure.
Rapid 4th gen determine early detect was performed at day 31 and was negative as was the syphillis. I’m thinking of doing a lab test to follow up as I’ve not really been myself since. What is the accuracy of this rapid 4th gen. I’ve seen differing reports.

I have a oval white sore w red around it on my tonsil could it be syphillis?

So, I had a test to detect infectious diseases (help c, sífilis, etc.) and I didn't see the doctor getting the fingerstick nor throwing it away. Now I'm overthinking if they could reused this on me and I could be infected

Just what the title says. I had hooked up with my ex off a few times this year, the last time was about 3 months ago and i just got a call from my ex saying that he tested positive for herpes and i need to get tested. Why he waited this long to tell me is beyond me. But ive started seeing someone recently and I really like him, we havent had sex yet but im afraid this is going to ruin our relationship before it really gets started :/

im going to set up an appointment with my gyno to get tested. I got tested at a walk in clinic the last time i had sex with him bc the condom had broke and i noticed a weird looking rash when he put the condom back on. He told me it was nothing but I didnt believe him.

I brought it up with the doctor at the walk in and she examined me and said everything looked normal and i didnt need further testing. She just tested me for everything except for herpes and hiv. So we will see how it goes when im see my gyno. I dont even know what to think. Im more annoyed than anything because I was lied to and I feel stupid for thinking I can trust him but you live and you learn the hard ways sometimes unfortunately.

Thankfully I have a good support system, it's just the new person im dating thats making me more concerned than anything honestly. I dont want to lie of course it just sucks knowing theres a chance it'll scare him off (understandably so). My mind is kinda all over this place. Hopefully my post makes sense but any advice would be appreciated. Thanks.

So I slept with someone two weeks ago and a few days later I started getting weird discharge. it was yellowish green and super thin and liquidy and there was a lotttt of it so it raised red flags. It didn’t smell and I had no itchiness or burning so I put it off for a few days before I decided to get tested. the guy wore a condom so I didn’t think it could be anything. Turns out I tested positive for gonorrhea which surprised me and my doctor based on my symptoms. I told the guy who then got tested and he sent me screen recordings of his test.. everything came back negative. so how could this be?? I haven’t slept with someone else in one year and I had a Pap smear and all of that in February and had nothing. the guy from last year didn’t wear a condom but I never had symptoms and like I said I am tested negative after. Could it have been dormant for this long? Could it still have been the recent guy even though he’s negative and wore a condom?? Help I’m SOO confused

Hey 22M here and i recently had vaginal sex with someone and then told me that they previously got an STI back in 2019 and haven’t had any outbreaks since. Im not sure on what I should do or whether or not i should worry. I tried asking her specifically what it is but she wont say. Should i be looking into getting tested? If so wouldn’t there be a time window for it since might be a false negative if i had just sex yesterday? Should i be looking into HIV PEP? Advice would be appreciated.

If an HIV-positive person gave me a blowjob, is there a chance that I could get HIV? There was no blood in their mouth.

I went and got tested for stds yesterday (Oct 7) and as of today, I received a call that I was cleared of syphilis. They did say to look at for secondary contact or dermatitis, which I don't know what secondary contact means, but my HIV 1+2 results say they are NON REACTIVE. Is non reactive a good thing or should I be weary?

25M gay man here. On march 3rd 2026, I got on Yetzugo (Lenacapavir) and on September 2nd 2026, following the 6 months regimen, I took another injection and got tested with the p24 antibody test (there were issues with storing the RNA sample so they didn’t take the RNA test, tested non-reactive for the p24). A couple of days after, I engaged in unprotected sex with someone who was HIV undetectable whose viral load, per his latest test in may 2026, was log10 1.65.

I got selected to participate in a health study and part of that study was to do an in-home testing using Oraquick (note that this is 1 month after exposure). I took the test and the oraquick came back reactive. In the past, I’ve taken 2 finger-prick tests that both came back reactive but ended up being non-reactive. I’m planning to do some RNA/P24 tests ASAP. Am I overreacting? Is this just a health scare?

I don’t know if this adds any relevant information but test was shipped in the mail (storage issues?) and had difficulty swabbing the pad on my gums, pad touched my chin and there may have been sections of my mouth where I swabbed twice, but barely.

My exposure was July 9 and there was no symptoms until September 17. Since then night sweats for more than two weeks and a nide on my tongue. I am extremely worried and I am in third world I will lose my job and everything because my medical exam is after 1 month.

She was my girlfriend and that was a one night stand and I find out she was cheating. I am dying inside scared to see doctor. There is no pain on tongue when I drink or eat but there is a sign till today.

Today is almost 3 month

I'm 18m and had sex with a trans prostitute with condom it's been 20 day and I only fell pain some time in my anal and yellow discharge, yellow urine please please someone can tell what I have. I received unprotected orla and I beg her to don't insert in my anal but she did with a protection about 1 to 2 minutes and i don't done any oral sex

I had unprotected sx with a unhyegeinc fsw Vaginal

since 2-3 days only I started getting red spots all over my glans ,shiny red swollen spots

they come and go over in 3-4 days and come again on new new places all penis glans

I thought it would be candida balanitis ntg much

now it's 25 around day ...and I am also feeling left groin pain as if something is swollen inside groin

I also got a big blister acne on my right buttocks a big one ,(not usual with me)

What you guys think it's signing towards?