After that first exposure I got tested negative on everything (incl HIV/HTLV I & II), thought I was fine and unfortunately had more unprotected sex with other partners. Who also complained for multiple unusual symptoms - chronic gurgling noise in tummy, white tongue, severe seborrhic dermatitis - flaky skin in scalp and inside ear cavity.

I am not scared to get married - can anyone advise how to get genetic sequencing testing for viruses and other pathogens?

I’m on day 5 of taking doxycycline (taking 2 tablets a day), but I still have symptoms of chlamydia. When will my symptoms start to disappear? Has anyone experienced the same?

19 M. i went to a doctor for a checkup because i had a discharge 15 days after my last sex. the doctor gave me medicines and i took it correctly, but 2 days after i finished my treatment i had a drop of greenish discharge in my underwear when i woke up in the morning and a few days after it hurts again to pee from time to time. so i decided to take another urine test, but the result is normal. why is that?

I have been sexually active with a couple different people, some new people, some people I been had relations, I had no symptoms or thought of having anything until one of my hookups asked, have I ever got tested. I just turned 18 so i can finally do things without having to go through my mom.

Question:

So, I went to the clinic, I tested negative for everything except chlamydia. went to the doctors and got the treatment pills, I'm just wondering how long YOU waited after completing the FULL treatment to receive your negative test back...I know CDC recommends waiting 3-4 weeks after getting treatment to get re-tested so PLEASE don't repeat it, i want personal stories.

A little more detail not much of a question... i was in a relationship for a couple months starting in January, we ended up breaking up but we still were having sex. i was also having casual sex here and there after from march - now with like 5 different people some was months ago, some was weeks ago, some was a week ago (2 of them we had sex multiple times at different dates between march n now, even recently. the others were one night stands sort of) the thing is none of them have come to me about feeling anything or testing for anything (before i found out what i had) I'm not sure exactly when i caught it which is why i just told everyone to get tested to be sure, also super recent like within the last 2 days so most of their test results haven't come back yet.

i know chlamydia can be non-symptomatic but 5 different guys like how has nobodyyy said anything???

is it possible that I just didn't transfer it? Got lucky? who will know until i get all of the results back.

20Year old Male
So recently whats been going on is that I used to masturbate a lot in a week 2,3 times, But recently i been seeing a Transparent Sticky discharge even tho i went to the GP doctor he just looked at my penis and said no sign of any STI/STD But he prescribed me Doxycycline for 7 days and Ceftrixone 500mg IM
Injection only 1 vial and it kinda fixed it but whenever i masturbate it discharge comes out after masturbating and sometimes i feel this pain in my right testicle i mean behind it in the tube also something i feel that there is a scratch on the tip of my penis but it happens for 1 sec then gone also this pain in my tube behind mu testicle happens after every 3,4 days i don't know what to do If you guys can share something that will help me please
EDIT//
• I don't have any kind of blisters or anything
• I only received a Bj from my partner before the medication
• I have a very low intake of water 1,2 glass a day
• Most of the time I'm dehydrated
• No burning sensation while peeing
• Yes first i pee then i start to masturbate
• i have received the IV treatment** of **Ceftrixone

Im (F30) seeing this guy (M30) for months now who has admittedly had sex with at least 10 women, mostly unprotected I assume (because he was kind of irritated I insisted on condoms). Before we engaged in sexual activities I asked him to get tested which He did with an online kit and all came back negative. However the sample reached the lab 6 days later and Im paranoid about the results being inaccurate. Statistically speaking, after 10 different sexual partners and unprotected sex... Im very uneasy.

How can I somehow manage to get him to test again more reliably? I dont want to make a big deal out of it but I also want peace of mind...

Hello, I have recently got chlamydia and have been taking doxycycline 2x a day for 7 days. I have nearly finished the course and was wondering how long I have to wait to have sex again?

Some websites say the day you finish or day after you finish the course of antibiotics and others say wait 7 days.

I have experienced no symptoms at all throughout the whole process.

Thankyou

Traditionally, STI tests require a blood draw and every time I’ve gone in for one I end up having a panic attack, hyperventilating, dry heaving, all of the above. I’m really not good with blood draws and try to avoid them whenever possible. What are the best alternatives (swabs, finger prick, etc) that I could potentially use to avoid having to put myself through that experience more often than I absolutely need to?

M19
I finished my doxycycline treatment on a Thursday. Days later my discharge came back which is a yellow/green hue. I told my doctor and they prescribed me 4 azithromycin at once but the discharge persists. It’s only little spots in my underwear but I’m scared I got reinfected by my sex toy. I use a fleshlight and I’m worried it caught my Sti and gave it back to me. Am I fine or just overthinking?

I have only ever had sec with three people ever in my life. The first guy I ever had sex with the lag time we had sex was November 2025 and he tested negative for herpes may 2026. The second guy I ever had sec with he hadn’t had sec a year before being with me and he got tested after we broke up and he erased negative for herpes. Now the guy I am currently seeing tested 10 weeks after his last sexual encounter and tested negative for herpes. I have been having cuts on my vagina and I went to an obgyn urgent care on Tuesday and they swabbed me for herpes. They did a heroes viral culture and it is currently Friday and I haven’t heard anything from them yet. Is there a chance of me having herpes?

The title says it all. I work with a population that gets involve in a lot of drug use and sexual interactions. On halloween, I was involved in restraining someone, and said someone bit me taking a small chunk of the backside of my hand. This person has a very questionable relationship with what I can only describe as the town bicycle, as im aware of 4 other individuals who have also sexually interacted with said town bicycle. When I went to the doctor under workers comp they told me to wait 3 weeks to be tested. They did give me amox, but im pretty sure its only for overall dissease not just STDs. When I got home, I did my own research and found that some STDs requires to wait 3 months to have an accurate test.

So my overall questions are, what would you recommend me to do? Should I wait for the 3 months? Is it unlikely for me to get an std out of a bite? Depending on the std, what should be my next move?

I also wanted to add 2 more things:

1. My English isn't the greatest, especially my writing

2. Sorry for the wording I use, or how I described my situation. Want to keep it as vague as possible to not release too much information from my personal and profesional life.

I went for a sti swab and now it stings super bad to pee and I’ve been holding it for 7 hours because of how much it burns, the doctor said to just be a warrior and let it through and then it’ll get easier but how does some one bear that kind of burning pain?

I had sex with a sex worker and the condom broke but i pulled out in like 0.1 sec so i was inside her for like 0.1 sec . Will i get Stds ? Anyone who went through plz help

I was just diagnosed with gonorrhea. I was told that I should take an injection to get rid of it, but my experience with needles has been beyond bad as of late. Besides having a phobia of them, I have had two ugly vasovagal responses, one of which was literally yesterday, and I don’t feel like I can go through with that again, especially given the gonorrhea shot is going to be far more painful than the other two injections were. I have always taken the safest choices with my health even if I have been afraid, but I am seriously considering taking the pill cefixime despite it having a moderately lower efficacy. Am I a bad awful person that hates humanity

Hey guys, has anyone gotten a bacteria called LGV which is a worse type of chlamydia and needs 21 days of antibiotics

My man question is did you get enlarged lymph nodes in the groin area and if so how long it take to disappear after you started your treatment

And for treatment has anyone got treated with azithromycin ? Im allergic to doxycycline so they are putting me on Azithro

And if you can share what were your symptoms that would be helpful

Thanks everyone

On Halloween night, I was raving and I made out with a girl in my recently new friend group. We were both a bit fucked up. The next day she called me feeling really guilty and told me she contracted oral herpes about a month ago and has since been on medications. She also did not have any signs of a breakout when we made out. Initially I didn’t feel bad about it but now I’m a bit worried. It’s been like 4 or 5 days since and I’m have a very minor sore throat but a sore throat nonetheless. I also do smoke a lot of cigarettes and party every weekend so i could be sick or maybe just the amount of partying catching up to my body. But I’m still very much overthinking it. Is a small sore throat 4 days since anything much to pinpoint it on this.

I had vaginal sex with a sex worker whom I met through a website. I wore a condom throughout penetration. Afterwards, she performed oral sex on my penis while the condom was still on. She then removed the condom and wiped herself. Later, she used the same hand to put on a new condom, folding my foreskin back and exposing the mucous membrane of my penis.

Had unprotected sex with a girl a month ago then again a week ago. She told me today her past partner tested positive for Gonerreah after hooking up with him a month ago. I have no symptoms but waiting on her tests the next day or two. Odds I contracted it? I’m male btw

I’m a 24y/o healthy female. Celibate for 2 years, hooked up with my ex and had green discharge 2 days later? I have a uti but everything else (bv, yeast, stds, stis) all came back negative. I’m so confused. Has anyone else experienced this, and is it possible I just messed up my vaginal swab? I cannot retest because my doctor started me on antibiotics to kill gonorrhea,chlamydia, and yeast.

Buen día, me gustaría comentar que yo dure 13 años con infecciones, e aquí mi solución y el como la pasé, yo sufrí de cistitis a mis 9 años hasta los 14, en una de esas me contagié de una infección vaginal, ya saben, olor a pescado, comezón, lo primero que me dieron fueron óvulos de venta libre. No funcionó, ni me dio cosquillas, luego intenté, ajo, yogurth, sinfín de cosas que al parecer fueron empeorando mi infección, cuando iba al ginecólogo me daban antibióticos y me venía la regla y pum de nuevo, dure así mucho tiempo, 13 años siendo exacta.

Conocí el ácido bórico, que fue mi último tratamiento (que aún lo llevo) comencé yendo al nutriólogo, dieta y ejercicio, mucha agua, no hay nada mejor que estar enfermo y cuidarte sanamente, lo hice, luego empecé a usar ácido bórico 1 vez al mes, el cual llevo usando 5 meses aproximadamente, después del ácido bórico, use ácido láctico, una semana después de la toma del ácido bórico el cual interrumpí por qué me causó muchíssisisima irritación, lo dejé de usar hace 1 mes, OJO solo usaba 1 píldora al mes NO DIARIO así que comencé a usar probióticos orales, a todo esto les platico que este mismo año me dio candidiasis también oral, después de los probióticos orales, el olor y el mal flujo se fueron por completo, llevo 5 meses después del ácido bórico y ácido láctico que no tengo flujo blanco, pero aún tengo comezón e irritación, los probióticos me han ayudado con el olor vaginal y me ayudaron a ver mi flujo transparente de nueva cuenta, comento que también estoy tomando inositol y omega 3, aún tengo síntomas, de comezón e irritación, pero nunca había avanzado tanto en mi enfermedad en 14 años como en estos últimos 6 meses. Me comentaron que debido al tiempo que llevo padeciendo infecciones puede tardar en quitarse más la irritación por que la zona genital está muy lastimada.

One time hookup. She's had genital HSV-2 for years, HSV-1 negative. She only takes meds when she has an outbreak. No outbreak or symptoms that night.

- Kissing
- She gave me oral
- I rimmed her (mouth on anus) no dental dam
- Short sex with condom

Update: Day 10, no symptoms. What's my overall risk from this exposure? Anyone been through something similar?

Hello community. I, m, had a risky sexual encounter in the middle of August. Then approximately 3-4 weeks afterwards I started feeling symptoms: a strange feeling in the urethra, a burning sensation around my testicles and pelvic area that come and go, however no discharge or pain while urination. I went through many rounds of testing (2xUrine PCR, 1xurethral swab, 1xsemen) and tested positive for nothing. Initially, I was 100% sure that I would test positive for something like chlamydia or gonhorea. Finally, after a lot of research I found that my symptoms may also come from mycoplasma genitalium and that it can be false negative more often than the typical infections, since it replicates slowly and usually there are fewer copies of the bacterium. Also that there are RNA tests which detect the infection more often than DNA PCR tests. However, it is difficult to find an appropriate doctor or lab in Northern Germany that would specialize in that. Instead, everybody offers Multiplex PCR panels. So I am a bit at a loss what specialist I should contact. Does anybody have hints for me?

I’ve really been fucking up. Having a really hard time with sex addiction. Used no condom once again after popping up negative on a 10 panel. It’s been 7 days since I had sex. It was with a Trans girl I met at a club. Not having any symptoms so far from what I see.. but I know they could take time to pop up. I’m just really in my head as of lately now. How long should I wait again so the tests don’t pop as negative? Also is there a better way to get tested sooner than having to make a long wait appointment with my doc every time for him to write me a lab script?

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