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Dr HHH - Concerns
HHH,
11/19/10 I had brief sex with girl and the very next morning had tingling, pain in tip of penis.(Please read my prior history/posts) 11/23, I went to urgent care and came back positive for bacteria(normal flora), RBC, WBC. Doc gave me one week of Cipro which I took. The girl tested neg for STD's, bacteria, etc. Why do I continue to experience this discomfort with tip of penis pain/discomfort and testicular pain? I need further convincing that this is not an STD I guess. I have read disturbing things on the internet that sometimes infections cannot be detected by urinalysis,etc and that the prostate is occultly infected.....etc. I do not have any problem urinating, ejaculating, no discharge, although sometimes it bothers me after I ejaculate. Is it nerve problems? I would like if possible your professional opinion if I am infectious becuz it sure feels like an infection. The pain/discomfort comes and goes and is there mostly when I am at work. Questions are:
1) Does it sound like infection, am I infectious?
2) Will the testicular pain give me infertility?
3) Any cancer, health risks here??
4) Have you heard of this before? How long will it take to resolve??
Please give me some convincing evidence that this is not infectious because the key as far as I'm concerned is that I acquired this after sex so it must be related right??? or wrong......
I have this girl I am seeing who I am in love with and am scared about the whole experience and want it to be over with.
I know I have posted before but the damn thing still lingers and I just don't have any answers??
Thanks.
11/19/10 I had brief sex with girl and the very next morning had tingling, pain in tip of penis.(Please read my prior history/posts) 11/23, I went to urgent care and came back positive for bacteria(normal flora), RBC, WBC. Doc gave me one week of Cipro which I took. The girl tested neg for STD's, bacteria, etc. Why do I continue to experience this discomfort with tip of penis pain/discomfort and testicular pain? I need further convincing that this is not an STD I guess. I have read disturbing things on the internet that sometimes infections cannot be detected by urinalysis,etc and that the prostate is occultly infected.....etc. I do not have any problem urinating, ejaculating, no discharge, although sometimes it bothers me after I ejaculate. Is it nerve problems? I would like if possible your professional opinion if I am infectious becuz it sure feels like an infection. The pain/discomfort comes and goes and is there mostly when I am at work. Questions are:
1) Does it sound like infection, am I infectious?
2) Will the testicular pain give me infertility?
3) Any cancer, health risks here??
4) Have you heard of this before? How long will it take to resolve??
Please give me some convincing evidence that this is not infectious because the key as far as I'm concerned is that I acquired this after sex so it must be related right??? or wrong......
I have this girl I am seeing who I am in love with and am scared about the whole experience and want it to be over with.
I know I have posted before but the damn thing still lingers and I just don't have any answers??
Thanks.
MEDICAL PROFESSIONAL
I'm confident you do not have an STD because there is no STD that causes the various symptoms you describe and continues (or continues to recur) so long.
Urine can be tested for gonorrhea and chlamydia. You'll have to ask your doctor or clinic whether those tests were done on the urine sample. How it was collected doesn't make much difference.
Timing doesn't necessarily imply causality. Look at it this way: every week in the US, there probably are few million sexual encounters. And every week probably at least 100,000 men get new genital symptoms of various kinds. By random association, both things will happen to some men. I have no idea whether these figures are accurate, but you get the idea. It would be different if you had symptoms typical for an STD, but you don't.
That will be all for this thread. Take care.
Urine can be tested for gonorrhea and chlamydia. You'll have to ask your doctor or clinic whether those tests were done on the urine sample. How it was collected doesn't make much difference.
Timing doesn't necessarily imply causality. Look at it this way: every week in the US, there probably are few million sexual encounters. And every week probably at least 100,000 men get new genital symptoms of various kinds. By random association, both things will happen to some men. I have no idea whether these figures are accurate, but you get the idea. It would be different if you had symptoms typical for an STD, but you don't.
That will be all for this thread. Take care.
Thanks for the quick reply. I guess I was just looking for reasoning or some facts to back up as to why you would come to this conclusion of no STD...thats all.
My urine was cultured by going in a cup and then sent to a lab I guess which is what was defined as 'normal flora'. - Is this a standard test for bacterial STD's? Was there/Is there anything else I would have needed?
I did after all get this after unprotected sex which I why I associate it with something transmitted through sex and thats the hurdle I am trying to get over.....Please, anything you could add with some detail would be much appreciated.
I will wait for your reply and thank you once again.
My urine was cultured by going in a cup and then sent to a lab I guess which is what was defined as 'normal flora'. - Is this a standard test for bacterial STD's? Was there/Is there anything else I would have needed?
I did after all get this after unprotected sex which I why I associate it with something transmitted through sex and thats the hurdle I am trying to get over.....Please, anything you could add with some detail would be much appreciated.
I will wait for your reply and thank you once again.
MEDICAL PROFESSIONAL
Welcome back to the forum.
But you are re-asking things that Dr. Hook covered in your thread 2 months ago. I really can't add much. You have no STD, and that's the only topic for this forum. We don't provide advice about non-STD prostate gland problems, which clearly is what you have (and have had a long time, scanning back to other threads including the urology community forum). You may have the chronic pelvic pain syndrome (CPPS) and not prostatitis -- but this an issue for a urologist. CPPS is often a manifestation of genitally focused anxiety; if there is any connection with the sexual exposure, it is probably because of anxiety over the event. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chronic_pelvic_pain_syndrome
1) This is not an STD. You are not likely to be infectious for a sex partner.
2,3) These are questions for your urologist. Chronic prostatitis or CPPS rarely if ever cause infertility, cancer, or any other serious health problem.
4) See above. Sorry I can't help further. The best I can suggest is that you continue to follow up with a urologist. But I also suggest you try to mellow out. This is almost certainly an issue of comfort only, not a serious health problem that will ever harm you or a sex partner.
Good luck with it-- HHH, MD
But you are re-asking things that Dr. Hook covered in your thread 2 months ago. I really can't add much. You have no STD, and that's the only topic for this forum. We don't provide advice about non-STD prostate gland problems, which clearly is what you have (and have had a long time, scanning back to other threads including the urology community forum). You may have the chronic pelvic pain syndrome (CPPS) and not prostatitis -- but this an issue for a urologist. CPPS is often a manifestation of genitally focused anxiety; if there is any connection with the sexual exposure, it is probably because of anxiety over the event. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chronic_pelvic_pain_syndrome
1) This is not an STD. You are not likely to be infectious for a sex partner.
2,3) These are questions for your urologist. Chronic prostatitis or CPPS rarely if ever cause infertility, cancer, or any other serious health problem.
4) See above. Sorry I can't help further. The best I can suggest is that you continue to follow up with a urologist. But I also suggest you try to mellow out. This is almost certainly an issue of comfort only, not a serious health problem that will ever harm you or a sex partner.
Good luck with it-- HHH, MD
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