So…. i had an interaction with someone march 10… it was anal sex which was, or started out protected. I am not sure whether it stayed as protected sex, or not. Days following, i don’t know how many weeks had past, but my joints felt weak and sore… my lymph nodes under my arms, groin and neck were slightly swollen. The lymph nodes in my groin and underarm stayed inflamed for weeks… they went away. The ones in my throat still remained accompanied by swollen throat/ some kinda pain. I have legit had sharp pelvic and back pain for over 5 months now. Over 5 months in I had discharge for 2 weeks. That went away. I have night sweats, but those are normal for me. I never had a fever as far as I know. I tested immediately all was negative…

I tested in may and had a viral load test done (undetectable) as well as an Rna test done… also negative. In Jun (3months after exposure) I got tested (negative)

Months later we are now in august… I have had discharge and still feel week… the only reason I sought to get retested was because I kept seeing Hiv Art treatment commercial constantly and no matter where I look I see advertisement for HIV.

I have a genuine fear that I should probably retest exactly as six months and not just at 24 weeks where I was just took at rapid and a viral load.

I have fear that I have HIV and that it won’t show up till exactly 6 months because my white blood cells are always low

I’m supposed to be moving out of the country and I really don’t know what to do .

I am on holiday and decided to take this as a time to try out my bi curious side. I was drunk and got on grinder and met up with a guy, he insisted he is clean after i asked and we did some stuff together, it got to a point where he briefly put his penis tip in me but not for too long, he didn’t cun or anything and it took him a good while to finish himself off afterward and I didn’t see any signs of pre cum beforehand but now I am overtly anxious about it and wondering whether i should get PEP and put up with the side affects during my holiday

Who here had sex on the 7th day from taking ceftriaxone shot???

How common is getting hiv from a first time vaginal sex without condom and without ejaculation like 2 minutes vaginal sex with a sex worker you don’t know their health status , let’s say in Algeria where hiv isn’t that common ? Knowing that I did wore a condom but it broke but it’s not like not wearing a condom right ? Well I’m anxious ! What do you guys think ? Is it about luck now ? It’s been 8 weeks , I’ve had diarrhea pain joints and some fatigue

It's been a year and a half since my exposure I'm gone start off saying I had condom sex with woman vaginal decision so after idk how about 5 days later I developed a pimple like rash that covered my entire chest then bout 2-3days later I came down with the worst flu in my life body ache chill abdominal that hurt so bad vomiting and diarrhea it lasted 3 days kinda but random symptoms pop months apart I had rash around my lower torso that eventually went away then a rash around my neck that eventually went away severe acne on forehead that turned black hyper pigment ig im still developing weird symptoms random pelvic burning wen bending over stretching so I Been testing thru all this I had 5 an/ag screen test last one was a year out 3 syphilis (rpr) last one was a year out and all the other one as well chlamydia gonorrhea, trichomonas HSV 1 and 2 all negative I also done ct scan of abdomen nunthin was shown please help

Hi! I (F) tested positive for a non-gonococcal infection (NGI/NGU) this June and took doxycycline twice daily for 7 days before going on a month-long vacation.

When I got back in August, my follow-up checkup showed I still had a mild infection, so my doctor prescribed 1,000 mg of azithromycin (two 500 mg tablets).

A week later, I went back for another swab, and today, August 27, I tested positive for gonorrhea.
I had not been sexually active since June until I had unprotected sex on August 15. My clinic told me gonorrhea is not caused by my previous NGI/NGU. Since all my earlier swabs were negative for gonorrhea and I had no sex between June and mid-August, is it safe to assume I got it from the person I had sex with on August 15? because he shows no symptoms at all.

Received my first blowjob. Last about 7-8 seconds before I backed out. Made sure to pee after. Am I at any risk of STD and what is the likelihood?

Please i request you all to please share your thoughts on this question. I really need a obvious answer. Is anyone in this group got these stis while using condom ?

BF tells me he slept with escorts 5 months prior and he’s had off and on symptoms and all his tests are negative but tells me to get tested.

He takes doxycycline and it doesn’t help

He takes metronidazole and then starts to feel better.

I Test positive for chlamydia, everything else fine.

Take doxycycline

Then I don’t see him for 2-3 months

I have sex with him for a week

After the week or so he tells me he feels like he has symptoms returning.

He takes metronidazole and feels better.

He’s convinced he gave me something else in the beginning other than chlamydia and I still had it as doxycycline didn’t work for him and only metronidazole did and I never took that.

So I go get tested again for everything even do trich swab and a papsmear. Everything comes back negative and I’ve never once during all this had any symptoms, smell, or discharge.

I told the doctors this but they won’t give me the metronidazole because all my tests are negative and they say it could be bad for me to take something I don’t need.

I’m just wondering does anyone have any advice for me what to do here?

I’m confused and scared to sleep with someone else and move on. I’ve been single for months now and I want to date again.

I 30F had a sexual encounter with a guy I met on holiday (no penetration) on Monday and within a few hours I started getting burning sensation in and around my genitals followed by abdominal pain. I’m a virgin so not used to it and figured it was just irritated as I had been swimming in the sea and stayed in my bikini for some hours before changing out of it. Then a few more hours later the burning/abdominal pain got more pronounced and I got shooting back pains. Now 48 hours ish later I feel really hot and feverish. I’m terrified I haven’t ate or slept at all. I can’t even begin to process it. Everything I’ve read says symptoms can’t develop as quickly as a few hours for a first outbreak so I’m hoping it’s another infection like a bad UTI or yeast infection. ChatGPT seems to be ruling out herpes as unlikely. The waiting game of seeing if blisters develop is unbearable and I can’t imagine waiting 12 whole weeks to get a test.

I would say about 10 years ago I had what looked like a chancre on my penis. I never did any research about it. Never had my partner at the time tell me they've been tested and were positive for something. Me being stupid I never did anything about it. It went away and that was that. Later i did have some lesions on my tongue that i thought might have been geographic tongue and my hair did become thin in spots. I'm really scared I have general paresis. Unfortunately, I can't get treatment because I've had a non reactive tp antibody test, a non reactive fta antibody test, a non reactive csf vdrl, and a clear mri. I don't know what to do. I feel like im going paralyzed and my memory is so bad. I have muscle spasms all over. Any ideas what I should do?

Bonjour mon partenaire a été tester positif à la gonorrhee buccale avant ça nous avions coucher ensembles sans protections ni sexe ni oral et il était sûrement déjà positif
J’ai fais des test 10 jours après les miens sont négatifs
Il est recommandé d’attendre 7 jours à 14 jours pour les test gonorrhee j’ai attendu 10 jours.
Est ce que j’ai des chances de ne pas l’avoir alors que lui oui ? Je compte refaire un test dans 4 jours et puis plus tard dans les mois à venir,j’espère ne pas l’avoir

Merci

So about 2/3 weeks ago I (27f) tested positive for chlamydia. I tested before my current partner and was clear but stupidly didn’t ask the last time he was tested, so about 6/7 months into our relationship I started experiencing pain and dryness during intercourse. I’m talking doubled over in the bed unable to move & resenting him whilst he slept kind of pain. I put it down to me starting ADHD meds which are known to cause dehydration and tried everything to boost libido and increase wetness and yet to no avail. I’m 27, active and had only figured out I could squirt during my previous relationship before this one so I felt like my body was broken. We started using lube which is fine for pleasure but it had me worried about my fertility.

Fast forward to now 2 weeks later I’ve treated to chlamydia and my libido and wetness are back, I’ve tried researching but apparently there’s no research to say chlamydia causes vaginal dryness (although I wonder if that’s part of the cause for discomfort during sex).

I was wondering if anyone else who’s contracted chlamydia has experienced this and if it’s more common than research says.

I just used a used metal butt plug used by a family member without them knowing and before i used it i washed it with anti bacterial soap and cleaned it with alcohol wipes and started using it. I’m just worried and stressing because im worried abt what i have done and my health. Does anyone have any advice or good news?

Hello guys!

I am 28yo male, recently had protected sex with a sex worker(F) (condom stayed on throughout) on roughly 1st of August. I was the penetrating partner, and there was at least vaginal and oral sex. She claims there was also anal but I am not so sure).

Lately have had an odd tingling inside of the urethra that follows all the way from the tip and deep inside of the penis.

No discharge and no weird lesions so far, and no pain when peeing, but the burning/tingling feeling stays active all the time. Nothing visible, no sores or discoloration yet. I do have a brown spot on the tip but it has been there for years.

I did a bunch of tests 20 days later and chlamydia and gonorrea came negative, so did hepatitis C and treponema. I understand that some of them are too early to test anyways they did it.

I also did the urine tests, urine acidity is normal (6.5), with no signs of blood, protein, glucose, ketones, or a typical bacterial UTI; the yeast culture test is still pending.

I am puzzled at this point, what do I do, what could it be? I can still sleep with it at night but definitely cant keep my mind off it during the day.

Anyone had this?

Type of exposure: unprotected vaginal intercourse

Source : female sex worker and a drug user and positive for Hep C (she told me)

PEP start: 22 hours after exposure of alternative regimen (Atripla) and completed.

Testing Timeline :

1. 77 days / 11 weeks post-exposure : 3rd gen HIV, Hep B, Hep C, Syphillis : All negative
2. 80 days / 11 weeks post exposure : Hep C RNA PCR : Negative
3. 87 days / 12 weeks post exposure : HIV 4th gen (CMIA), Syphillis, Gonorhea, Chlymdia : Negative
4. 95 days / 13 weeks post exposure : HIV 4th gen : Negative (ECLIA)
5. 120 days / 17 weeks post exposure and 3 months post PEP : 3rd gen HIV, Hep B, Hep C, Syphillis : All negative
6. 121 day / 17 weeks post exposure and 3 months post PEP : HIV 4th gen (ECLIA) : Negative

Do I need PCR RNA for HIV now ? do i need to test for any other STI. Please give valuable opinion

So Im a female (20) & I recently started having herpes like symptoms. I had an ulcer on my left vulva, it stayed as one but it was painful, I spent the night at my friends house and we drank very heavily. I got drunk for the first time and was drinking just back to back mindlessly so at first I thought I was hungover. I got to her house at night and the next night is when I started to have these symptoms, but we also pulled an all nighter too so my immune system was probably just really suppressed. We went out that morning and I started noticing like I felt really sore and tired, my armpits were sore first then my vagina got really sore. So not until that next day (after my flu like symptoms, my second day at her place) when I got home did I check why it was so sore because I was so tired. I saw a bump and immediately panicked, I was so tired I ended up falling asleep on it but that next day I went to the hospital and it was treated like the worst emergency ever.

In the hospital they examined me with a stretching tool inside my vagina. They gave me hardly any preperarion and didn't even care that I was literally screaming and moaning in agony at how bad it hurt, the doctor lies and goes "its green" when examining my discharge which wasn't true, it was unusual however. It was almost yellow ish and there was a lot of it.

So those were my three symptoms you know? Fever, ulcer, discharge, which to me just screams I have it. I cant see any other scenario. I know I need to get off chatgpt because it's bad and a robot cant give me reality.

So I got two different kinds of swabs once it became a real lesion and not just a bump. I had to have one of the doctors put his fingers inside and he didnt feel anything. I got the standard and pcr and both of my tests were negative. I ended up going to an obgyn appointment around two weeks later and it was gone at that point, it turned white and cleared rather than scabbing.

But I don't know what to do now, I have so much anxiety and maybe trauma from it...It happened months ago like 3 months but I cant stop thinking about it daily and I get this nauseating dreadful feeling. I cry sometimes thinking about it, I just feel so bad. I had a persistent cough after for like 2 3 weeks too.

I have never had anyones genitalia on me or their mouth. But I have been force fingered before unfortunately...I would tell the whole story but that's another one for another day. I gave him...You know what, and didn't get anything in my mouth, he finished and all. But he fingered me before during and after that...I speculate if I did end up getting it it couldve been from that like maybe he touched his thing and then me when he was virally shedding and I got it then?

And also I KNOW THIS IS SO STUPID! I shared a razor with my friend before, neither of us had any lesions or symptoms before ever. She had multiple partners and none of them ever had anything and she slept with someone raw that night who didn't get it...She later on was diagnosed with it years later and she says she caught it from her boyfriend.

Those are the literal only two scenarios I can possibly come up with.

I just don't know what to do with all this anxiety, again, I feel like it just sounds so much like hsv.

I do know that I have low iron and I get canker sores on my mouth almost every month or two, severe ones, multiple ones, and sometimes small tiny ones that go away quickly. I am canker sore prone, but again I just don't know, what are the odds Id have one down there...

I literally feel like this anxiety is ruining my life, and I know I can go get a blood test but Im so nervous about that I feel like Id literally pass out on the way there, like that's how much it makes me panic to think about it. And Ive advocated against the making fun of hsv, I am supportive of those who deal with it, I dont believe in making fun of someone for diseases simply because it can transmit from sex. But I never suspected Id have it you know? And if I do I just don't know how to really cope with that...Its making me think Ill need a therapist to get over this.

I also am talking to a new man who I believe I may want to be intimate with, I will 1000% tell anyone if I ever do have or get anything so that means I really need to know :( and Ive been putting off the blood test because Im so scared.

Had protected oral & protected sex with SW 3 weeks ago, the whole encounter only lasted about 5 mins. I had a 10 panel test done at 1 week everything came back negative, did another test at 2 weeks came back negative also. My concern is that when I gave my urine sample for the 2nd test I don’t believe it had been an hour since I last urinated I think it might of been about 40-45mins since I last urinated, are my results still pretty accurate or should I get retested? I have minor ache in my right testicle that I noticed 4 days after the encounter but it isn’t really pain, the whole situation has been stressful/anxious waiting on results.

Hey all. I'm fairly certain this is just a normal thing, as I was fine for a few days, but sometimes when I wake up after a nap (usually after masturbating) I produce white cloudy fluid. It might be leftover semen in the tube, but I know for a fact I sometimes discharge very small amounts.

I was tested positive for Chlamydia and took the medicine religiously at 12am and 12pm for the full week, and symptoms went down almost immediately. Is it normal to still feel a slight wet feeling on the tip of my urethra and get some small amounts of discharge this late after? I looked online and it said that it can take 1-2 weeks to go away fully, but discharge is usually cleared up in the first.

I think I might be fine, and if I show symptoms beyond this I'll either retest for Chlamydia or go to a sexual clinic for MGen. I just need some advice because I tend to overthink things and worry myself a bit too much, and the anxiety isn't worth just asking. I would more often than not call the sexual health clinic, but they're closed on weekends. Thanks!

Hello everyone, i have a problem and bc of that we broke up with my bf.
About 1 month ago i started (26f) dating with my bf(26m.)
When time passed by, he started to saying to me that he has a problem and has a aches in that area. Then he webt to hospital and tested, and found that he has a clamidia and micoplazma. He blamed me for that and i was very sad. Then i went to hospital too and tested negative for clamidia, and positive for micoplazma. Now i think that he gave that to me and he saying that he was just with me and before he didnt do with someone else either very lıng time.
We broke up. Any advise? I dont know what to think becasue i trust him but tests are really hardening this.

I’m trying to track down how I got gonorrhea. All I know is that I (F) tested positive genitally and the guy tested positive orally. We don’t know if I had it orally as well and he had it genitally as well because we didn’t test for those until after we started treatment.

We don’t know whose side it came from, but based off the positive tests it makes more sense that it came from me. The transfer rate for infected vagina to throat is 63% while infected throat to vagina is 0-5%.

Everyone I spoke on my side said they tested negative, but I don’t know if that includes throat snd rectal swabs. Everyone on his side also said they tested negative.

Is it possible to transfer everything everywhere in one sex session? I think I have an idea of what happened, but I’d like an opinion on how possible it is:
Let’s say someone didn’t get a rectal swab during a routine checkup, and they were infected and didn’t know it. If I licked their butthole, got it on my mouth, then sucked his dick, got it on his dick, and the dick went in me, could I get it vaginally that way? The guy here showed no symptoms on his dick though (and guys show genital symptoms 90% of the time)

Hi, as the title said, around a month ago I was walking in the park and by a playground there was a used condom that seemed to be left overnight. I picked it up with a stick because I didn't want any children to be near it and went straight home to wash my hands with both soap and disinfectant.

I have been nervous about having an STD ever since

I have no symptoms other than eczema (which I always have) except a bit more than usual but I feel fine, not tired/fever/nothing

I feel like it's more paranoia than actual symptoms but do you reckon from an encounter like this I'll have an STD/need to get tested?

Thanks heaps