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unprotected sex; negative PCR tests at 48 hours, but have symptoms
I am 52-year old man and had sex with girl high risk of having STDs. 48 hours later I have some mild pain in uretha and need to urinate every hour; I immediate went to clinic for a PCR test. its all negative (chlamidia, gonoreah, trich, mgen) but I still worry.
2 months ago I had a mild ecoli UTI infection that I decided not to treat and it went away, so I thought. But it felt similar. I have enlarged prostate
probably its one or the other; I thought PCR tests are very specific and would pick up even a little infection, surely if I have symptoms there would be enough bacteria for it to register on the test? or more likely could the sex have caused UTI to return?
2 months ago I had a mild ecoli UTI infection that I decided not to treat and it went away, so I thought. But it felt similar. I have enlarged prostate
probably its one or the other; I thought PCR tests are very specific and would pick up even a little infection, surely if I have symptoms there would be enough bacteria for it to register on the test? or more likely could the sex have caused UTI to return?
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