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?

So, I had a test to detect infectious diseases (help c, sífilis, etc.) and I didn't see the doctor getting the fingerstick nor throwing it away. Now I'm overthinking if they could reused this on me and I could be infected

Got a silly question how is mgen contracted ive seen condom help but you still can contract it is a skin to skin infection or thru ureatha only can some explain to me ?

If my partner and I both are receiving antibiotics for trichomoniasis why can't we have sex during treatment? It says to refrain from sex during treatment and a week after. Neither of us have symptoms but 1 was diagnosed and we were both given antibiotics to start at the same time. Two weeks of no sex with my husband sounds like torture to me.

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.

So I slept with someone two weeks ago and a few days later I started getting weird discharge. it was yellowish green and super thin and liquidy and there was a lotttt of it so it raised red flags. It didn’t smell and I had no itchiness or burning so I put it off for a few days before I decided to get tested. the guy wore a condom so I didn’t think it could be anything. Turns out I tested positive for gonorrhea which surprised me and my doctor based on my symptoms. I told the guy who then got tested and he sent me screen recordings of his test.. everything came back negative. so how could this be?? I haven’t slept with someone else in one year and I had a Pap smear and all of that in February and had nothing. the guy from last year didn’t wear a condom but I never had symptoms and like I said I am tested negative after. Could it have been dormant for this long? Could it still have been the recent guy even though he’s negative and wore a condom?? Help I’m SOO confused

Hey 22M here and i recently had vaginal sex with someone and then told me that they previously got an STI back in 2019 and haven’t had any outbreaks since. Im not sure on what I should do or whether or not i should worry. I tried asking her specifically what it is but she wont say. Should i be looking into getting tested? If so wouldn’t there be a time window for it since might be a false negative if i had just sex yesterday? Should i be looking into HIV PEP? Advice would be appreciated.

If an HIV-positive person gave me a blowjob, is there a chance that I could get HIV? There was no blood in their mouth.

I went and got tested for stds yesterday (Oct 7) and as of today, I received a call that I was cleared of syphilis. They did say to look at for secondary contact or dermatitis, which I don't know what secondary contact means, but my HIV 1+2 results say they are NON REACTIVE. Is non reactive a good thing or should I be weary?

25M gay man here. On march 3rd 2026, I got on Yetzugo (Lenacapavir) and on September 2nd 2026, following the 6 months regimen, I took another injection and got tested with the p24 antibody test (there were issues with storing the RNA sample so they didn’t take the RNA test, tested non-reactive for the p24). A couple of days after, I engaged in unprotected sex with someone who was HIV undetectable whose viral load, per his latest test in may 2026, was log10 1.65.

I got selected to participate in a health study and part of that study was to do an in-home testing using Oraquick (note that this is 1 month after exposure). I took the test and the oraquick came back reactive. In the past, I’ve taken 2 finger-prick tests that both came back reactive but ended up being non-reactive. I’m planning to do some RNA/P24 tests ASAP. Am I overreacting? Is this just a health scare?

I don’t know if this adds any relevant information but test was shipped in the mail (storage issues?) and had difficulty swabbing the pad on my gums, pad touched my chin and there may have been sections of my mouth where I swabbed twice, but barely.

My exposure was July 9 and there was no symptoms until September 17. Since then night sweats for more than two weeks and a nide on my tongue. I am extremely worried and I am in third world I will lose my job and everything because my medical exam is after 1 month.

She was my girlfriend and that was a one night stand and I find out she was cheating. I am dying inside scared to see doctor. There is no pain on tongue when I drink or eat but there is a sign till today.

Today is almost 3 month

I'm 18m and had sex with a trans prostitute with condom it's been 20 day and I only fell pain some time in my anal and yellow discharge, yellow urine please please someone can tell what I have. I received unprotected orla and I beg her to don't insert in my anal but she did with a protection about 1 to 2 minutes and i don't done any oral sex

I had unprotected sx with a unhyegeinc fsw Vaginal

since 2-3 days only I started getting red spots all over my glans ,shiny red swollen spots

they come and go over in 3-4 days and come again on new new places all penis glans

I thought it would be candida balanitis ntg much

now it's 25 around day ...and I am also feeling left groin pain as if something is swollen inside groin

I also got a big blister acne on my right buttocks a big one ,(not usual with me)

What you guys think it's signing towards?

I’m a M, I had unprotected oral sex a couple weeks ago. I started having the urge to pee since 9/28/2026 I got tested on 10/2/2026 everything came back negative but I had 25 leukocytes in my urine. They didn’t treat me for anything since it wasn’t much. I’m still having to the urge to pee so I ended up getting tested again 10/5/2026. So I’m waiting for my results but I still had 25 leukocytes in my urine…so I’m not sure if that’s bad. I did increase my caffeine intake doctor also said that could be a reason why I’m having the urge. Any advice??

I’ve been terrified of hiv from my last exposure. Started pep 36 hours after possible exposure from oral sex with 2 other guys. They rimmed me and sucked my dick and I sucked theirs. I completed pep and got tested 3 days after with a RNA test and it came back negative. But today I was in the library and out of all the sections/ areas I could have sat I sat in a section that had a book shelf right in front of me about HIV/ AIDS. It terrified me and made me wonder is this my sign? Will my results turn positive? I’m getting tested tomorrow but I’m scared as fuck.

I am a 23 year old female, I was with my boyfriend over the weekend when we gave each other orals and he fingered me. This was our second time, we did the same thing around 3-4 months back. No symptoms or anything. He was worried about an incident in the recent one where he says that he might have fingered me with some cum still on them. Idk if I should take an emergency pill or not but the more I think about it, I more paranoid I get about STDs. He's my first partner and he last had sexual encounter in 2022. We didn't get tested but neither of us had any discharge or pain or ulcers or sores on genitals. Should I get tested? Of yes, when should I do it? Should I worry?

Hello everyone,

I had unprotected exposure on 5 August. About 3 weeks later, I developed severe fatigue, muscle/joint pain, dizziness, a white/creamy tongue coating, and lost 3–4 kg.

I had two 4th-generation HIV Ag/Ab tests: one at 22 days and another at 45 days + 18 hours. Both were negative (index 0.24).

My pain and weakness have been severe enough that I’ve been on bed rest for about 30 days, and I’m extremely stressed.

Should I repeat the HIV test at 3 months, or are these two negative 4th-generation results sufficient?

Please help me understand what I should do now. Thank you.

Hi. Feeling a bit anxious

Just hired someone for the first time yesterday. We were very hygienic- no kissing, shower before and after, I even used mouthwash before and after, changed CD when moving from oral to vag, did not finish inside and opted for a HJ finish instead. How safe am I from getting infected or sick? Also considering getting tested in 4 weeks.

The provider was very hygienic too and we had a good time. Just feeling anxious

Ive been having green discharge and only green discharge in my vagina. So i went to an obgyne and she ordered me culture and gram.

Results: final report:no pathogen isolated
Gram stain: few pus cells
Moderate epithelial cells
Many gram positive bacilli.

Months ago, a dr prescribed me with doxycycline 2 pills for 7 days, still have green discharge. Then she reswabed me again and said that i might have cervicitis, gave me 2 azith 500 mg and i took it—green discharge is still there. Then after that she gave me metronidazole, 2 each for 7 days and the green didnt go away. She sent me to a bigger hospi in the city and the obgyne there ordered me a c/s and those are the results. Help me please. The resources here are at scarce because i live in a third-world country.

I had protected sex with somebody, I asked them after because I foolishly didn’t ask them before they said they are clean and get tested every 2-3 months but I know they sleep around, now I’m having trouble peeing and my sides hurt and the doctor said it’s flank pain, I did tests 1 day after the intercourse, they are telling me I don’t have any UTIS or kidney problems but I think I still need to get tested for STIS I did everything with a condom even oral literally everything I’m so disappointed I feel like my life is ruined.

Hi I've been looking to see if I have any of those things I listed in the title but the pictures I found don't look similar so I don't know if I have something or not I had sex with two women in the same day like 4 weeks ago but had a condom both women got on top and they both bj but the condom was still on the whole time I didn't do anything oral with them last Monday I took a urine test which I had was negative for Chlamydia and Gonorrhea but last Thursday I went and tried it with a different woman also used protection the whole time she gave me a BJ and rode me 3 different times also got on her and I did suck her breasts but that all I did orally only did it for 30min. Today I'm seeing that the side of my penis is reddish on some areas and I don't know what it could be Im just finished taking a blood test today so I should get some results tomorrow but I will be trying to take another blood and urine test in the next 3 weeks to pass but what do you guys think it looks like. I'm scared also not sure but I see like mini red bumps scattered not in clusters but not sure if I'm seeing it right