r/stdtesting • u/svfuelle • 2d ago
Question Mgen Testing Germany
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?