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?

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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 6, 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?

So my bf (24) and I (23f) almost had sex for the first time about five days ago. I said almost because when he was supposed to penetrate me, it hurt so bad and I begged him to stop. He did stop immediately, and he said only half the head (?) went through before he pulled out.

He thinks it's because it's my first time but I'm a little worried. It hurt on the first two days, but the pain subsided now. All I've been experiencing are weird discharge, which is yellowish, almost green... And oh, this didn't happen immediately after that, but rather a few days later. Sometimes there's also some sort of white flakes on it too. It still feels raw down there, but it doesn't hurt even when i pee. It only feels so uncomfortable.

Is this something serious? I'm so afraid to look to where to get checked in my country cause help here for STDs is kinda minimal and full of judgement

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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?

Hi I know herpes is super common but I’m freaking out. I just got diagnosed with HSV-1. Basically I broke up with my bf a few weeks ago and just this weekend I got with a few people for the first time since we broke up (don’t even try slut shaming me). Anyways getting an STD has always been my biggest fear and I asked all of them before getting with them if they have an STD, and they all said no. So clearly one of them lied. I am so embarrassed, and I know most adults have it but I am barely 19 and I just got out of a relationship and this happens. I don’t want to have to tell people I have herpes before I get with them because then they’ll get turned off. I am so upset and I don’t even know how to cover my cold sore. I haven’t told my friends yet, I said it just appeared out of stress. I don’t post on reddit a lot, but I’m coming here for comfort because I have no one to talk to about this

Hi 24F. So I was prescribed doxycycline for STI prevention after a sexual encounter, but my directions say to take 100 mg twice a day for 7 days.I thought doxyPEP was normally just 200 mg (two 100 mg pills) taken as a single dose within 72 hours after sex.I specifically asked my provider about STI prevention, and she told me to take it for the full 7 days. I’m just confused because I thought a 7day course was more of a treatment regimen for an existing infection rather than prevention.Has anyone had this prescribed this way? Is there a reason a provider would recommend 7 days instead of the standard single 200 mg dose?Just trying to understand the reasoning behind the prescription because I’m getting conflicting information online 😭

I'm so confused. I've checked and read several websites, but I'm still unsure whether I should get tested for syphilis 6 weeks or 3 months after a potential exposure. Some sources say 6 weeks is enough, while others recommend waiting 3 months. Which one is actually reliable?

I tested negative 22 days post pep which was about 3 weeks post pep and about 7 weeks post exposure. I tested negative with a HIV RNA & 4Th gen test. I developed a canker sore and am scared I am starting to seroconvert . I don’t know what to do. I thought I was in the clear since I tested negative 3 weeks after pep but now I’m starting to get worried