Dear Doctor Handsfield,
Dear Doctor Handsfield, I am a 39 years old man and in 2005 I had sex with a woman, whom I didn't know the health situation at that time. The Only risky sex intercourse of my life. Penis - vagina was protected by a condom. Fellatio protected . But I foolishly practiced a cunnilingus unprotected . A few days later I started having some symptoms : uvula slightly reddened ( but no plaque and no difficulty in swallowing ) . A feeling of swelling in the axillary lymph nodes and some pink spots on my chest. After a few weeks I started to get itchy in different parts of the body, joint pain in the arms and knees. And I began to have a strange feeling in the palms , as if I applauded a lot..I have undergone several blood tests and urine tests :
Test anti- HIV1 and 2 at 3 months, 6 months , 1 year, 2 years , all negative ;
Syphilis TPHA at 5 weeks, 3 months , 1 year, 2 years negative .
Hepatitis viruses B and C, 6- month and 1- year negative .
Urine test for chlamydia and gonorrhea , negative .
The number of my WBC has always been normal and also IgG and IgM.
All the symptoms I mentioned before disappeared after a few months and I did not think anymore about it. I went on with my life. For ignorance I never thought that I could have acquired gonorrhea with a cunnilingus. But all those symptoms have recurred 2 months ago and at a distance of nine years from that sexual relation.
What do you think? Do you think I need to do some more tests for mst? It could be a chronic infection of gonorrhea? Maybe I acquired it orally and it is disseminated in my body? I have read that these are the symptoms of a DGI..Recently I went to my doctor who did also a throat swab for Gonorrhea DNA probe test but it is negative. But I am worried that such a test cannot see if I have acquired gonorrhea and if I still have it after 9 years.
Thank you in advance.
Yours sincerely,