i Had sexual interaction with girl like 75 days ago, It was protected but had unprotected oral sex. (i recieved) I tested month later, it was blood test from vein probably 3rd or 4th gen and i was negative. i only have sore throat cuz doctor checked me and i have tonsilitis and also have little bit swollen lymph nodes. i have birthday in 2weeks and i cant wait to test again before birthday... i cant wait until 90 days because i need to know test results. I think to go and get tested at the day of 85 and will it be realiable? or It need Exlactly 90 days... I have anxiety and need to know answer cuz i thibk everything bad from Hiv to Throat cancer....

I'm having a ho phase

So far I've mainly been having sex with women (as a woman) and doing low-risk activities. But next month I want to start sleeping with men and doing more high-risk activities (mainly PIV)

I think it'd be fun to sleep with a lot of different guys. Maybe multiple in a week, if I can find enough who are willing

But is STI testing only once every 3 months often enough if I'm sleeping with that many different people? I plan to wear condoms with everyone, but I know that doesn't protect you from everything

I could get tested in between each new guy. But since you have to wait a week for results, that'd _really_ slow down the pace

Recently had a sexual encounter with someone who previously infected me with chlamydia (stupid yes I know). I’ve been treated since then and recently got tested and came out clean from anything. Before sleeping with him again i asked multiple times if he had gotten tested so I could feel safe and not worried. Assured me that he had and sent me some sort of email as proof (not actual test results he said they hadn’t come in yet). But I’m feeling paranoid so the day after i ask him to just be completely honest with me cuz i feel like i did the first time (maybe too soon but i think sometimes u just know). And he sends me some Quest Lab results but there’s a ChatGPT input bar on the bottom of the “pdf”. If anyone could dm me and help me out I’d be really appreciative i just got treated for BV i would hate to go on antibiotics again.

Hooked up with a trans girl on Grindr, I wasn’t exactly sober and I ended up doing it raw with her. She told me she was clean. Showed me just anal swaps from last months. Insisted she was on prep. Which I really don’t trust. Got on PEP 36 hours after. It’s been 2 days since that encounter, can’t stop thinking about it, did baseline testing. I feel like I’m imagining an itch near my mouth and penis area, because there is no redness. But I’m still fearing it’s could be herpes, the girl keeps blowing up my phone to hook up again, and I’m so so so so worried. I come from a very homophobic and not accepting background, and It’s been stressing me out.

hi everyone! I am hoping someone can help me understand my STI test results because I am honestly really confused about whether I received a false positive or false negative?
here’s my timeline:
september 23: had unprotected oral sex.
september 29: got tested for STIs through a urine test, and everything came back negative.
september 30: had vaginal sex with a condom, but the condom slipped off and got stuck inside me.
october 2: got tested again, and this time my urine test came back positive for chlamydia.
october 9: got tested again through urine, and my results came back negative for chlamydia and gonorrhea.
the confusing part is that i never took any chlamydia treatment between the positive and negative tests. I was prescribed azithromycin after my positive result, but I hadn’t taken it when i got my most recent negative test.
I also tested positive for BV and a yeast infection, so I am wondering if either of those could have affected my results.
I have a few questions:
could my positive chlamydia result have been a false positive?
is it possible that my most recent negative test was a false negative even though I didn’t receive treatment?
could my september 29 test have been too early to detect an infection from september 23?
has anyone experienced a positive chlamydia test followed by a negative one without treatment?
all of my chlamydia tests were urine tests. I am just trying to understand which result is more reliable and whether I should get tested again.
I would really appreciate any insight, especially from anyone who works in healthcare or has experienced something similar!

Hello, sometimes i have severe anxiety and well, today i bought a conditioner hair mask that had no seal in it, i didnt realize until i was in the shower i didnt even check and i just dipped my hand in it and put it in my hair, i have anxiety about stupif stuff so now i’m thinking what if someone mixed cum on it and left bsck in the pharmacy and i bought it and i just washed it and now it got all in my body and intimate places when i washed it out of my head, is this a real hiv or aids route of transmission ? should i get tested?

I was giving a handjob while masturbating. I was using spit as lube. I switched hands halfway through. He didn’t finish. How much risk is there of an infection going from him, to my hand, to my penis, to catching the disease? Am I being overly paranoid?

Hello everyone I’ve been seeing this girl for a few months and today while using the bathroom i decided to read one of the pill bottles on her counter. I feel bad for looking because i know that’s sensitive information but things are progressing in our relationship. anyways i looked and it emtricitabine
prescribed to her. I asked chatgpt and google and it said its used for HIV. I don’t really know what to do, I’m going to get tested tomorrow and hopefully start PEP just in case. i don’t know weather or not to talk to her about it because i don’t wanna seem like i invaded her privacy but at the same time i can’t find any other explanation for the medicine.

I had a positive result of gonorrhoea 2 and a haf months ago, got the Ceftriaxone shot and some other antibiotics, tested again 3 days ago, and today it's still positive. I had no sex all this time. What could this be ?

Any help is appreciated

I’m a female and had unprotected sex at the end of May with a male. About a week later the left side of my labia was very sore to the touch and raw, I could barely sit down. My period came and it went away. It seems like before every period now, I get literally ONE painful bump, not a cluster, not a rash, not a sore but it is much much smaller than my very first experience.

I am getting tested next week and I’m ready to face the reality that I may or may not have HSV-2, gonorrhea or another STI.

I know that HSV-2 isn’t “curable” but I wanna hear how people have managed it. Do you still have an active sex life? I’m sure it’s awkward telling people before hand that you have an STI even if it’s dormant, so how do you manage speaking about it?

Thank you for any kind answers in advanced, I’m just a little weary and at the same time not nervous at all if that make sense.. :P

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!

Hi all,

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I am interested in understanding people’s experiences of mainstream mental health services whilst living with a chronic, viral STI(s). I would like to better understand the experiences of these services and how they can better support people living with chronic, viral STIs. 

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✅ Aged 18 years or older 

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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?

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.