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STDs (Expert Forum)
Is this an STD
Answered by
University of Washington
Seattle - WA
Welcome to the STD Forum, which is intended only for questions and support pertaining to sexually transmitted diseases other than HIV/AIDS, including chlamydia, gonorrhea, syphilis, human papillomavirus, genital warts, trichomonas, other vaginal infections, nongonoccal urethritis (NGU), cervicitis, molluscum contagiosum, chancroid, and pelvic inflammatory disease (PID). All questions will be answered by H. Hunter Handsfield, M.D. or Edward W Hook, MD.
Is this an STD
by concernplease, Jul 29, 2005 12:00AM
Let me thank you in advace doc. After a weekend of intercourse with a female, some of it unprotected due to a broken condom, i found a pimple in my lower shaft close to my scrotum, about 35 hours later. the pimple was very hard and difficult to pop with my nail or a woodpick and it was right under a couple of pubic hair. During that day it was a bit a bit painful to touch also. I eventually popped it with a needle a day later, and grayish liquid that turn to blood came out, i also had a much tinier pimple, it may not have even been, near my pubic hair that i also popped, and the same liquids excreted. It later became red, and it never sour or cause any pain, although i may have a bit of itching every now and then in my pubic hair, which i believe is normal. it has been almost two weeks and i am not experiencing any other symptoms of herpes, which is my primary worry, but d small pimple has disappered and the larger one is appearing like a light reddish pimple that has heal, but d scars still remain. Unfortunately, i can't see a doctor for another 3 weeks, do you think it is herpes or any STD, i am very is possible an STD, since this happen soon after sex.
Doctor's Answer
by H. Hunter Handsfield, M.D., Jul 29, 2005 12:00AM
, Jul 29, 2005 12:00AM
Sounds like a garden-variety pimple or folliculitis, probably only a conicidence that it started after the sexual exposure you describe. STDs don't generally present with pimple-like lesions (even herpes rarely causes a single lesion in the location you describe); and no STD can show up within 36 hours.
Good luck-- HHH, MD
Good luck-- HHH, MD
I donated blood in 11th grade and months later when i erceieved a letter from Red Cross i read that i tested positive for a certain HIV antibody test. I freaked out. I immediately wen to the hospital and got restested. My father called me while i was at school with the results. he said that the tests were negative, but that if i had unprotected sex or used any needles in the past 6 months then it might be wrong. I did not, so i saw myself in the clear.
Now, i am in college and when i was a 1st year i donated blood again. This time i get another letter, this time saying that i was HIV negative, but that i had hepatitis. My father and i called the place and they said that since i am overweight that might explain why i get these false-positives. Does that make ANY sense???
BTW, i've never had any unprotected sex with anyone until very recently, so i don't know how i could have contracted anything.