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Not sure what to think
So I am a 40 year old male with a long term female partner. I work in the middle east and I had unprotected oral sex for about two minutes and then protected vaginal sex for a few minutes more. A few days later I had itching and tingling in my scrotum, of course I looked up what it could be and the wise google told me Herpes. SO I have been freaked out, as I go home to see my partner in 4 days. It is currently day 19 after exposure and I only have mild scrotal itching and I had a fever and body aches at day 15. I have no sores at all and I have begun a course of 200Mg doxycycline 3 times a day and 750Mg of cipro 2 times a day to kill anything bacterial. My major concern is HSV and/or HIV. I am freaking out and trying to find a way to stay away from home until I get tested. It doesn't look like I will be able to do that so I figured I would ask on the forum for advise.
So am I doomed?
So am I doomed?
MEDICAL PROFESSIONAL
I'm glad to have helped. Take care.
Thanks for the information and your research. I really appreciate your advice and reassurance. I don't want to waste anymore of your time, just wanted you to know I slept great last night for the first time in several days. Even at 40 Years old it is amazing how much your mind can mess with you. I never really notice my genitals through out the day, but right now every tingle or pain has me spooked.
Again, thank you for your dedication to this site and for your quick responses to me and everyone who feel they have no place to turn.
Again, thank you for your dedication to this site and for your quick responses to me and everyone who feel they have no place to turn.
MEDICAL PROFESSIONAL
Noted; see above.
MEDICAL PROFESSIONAL
Welcome to the forum. Thanks for your question.
You need not be at all worried. Oral sex is safe sex! The risk is zero or exceedingly low for some STDs, including HIV, and very low for all others. HIV infection has ever been proved to be transmitted from mouth to penis -- never, not once in the 30+ years of the worldwide AIDS pandemic. As for other STDs, scrotal itching is definitely not an STD symptom. Herpes does not cause itching alone -- open herpes sores (which you don't have) can itch, but anyway the oral contact was with your penis, so that's where any herpes outbreak would have been.
In addition, few if any sex workers in Dubai have HIV. There have been many questions about it on this forum, and I have several times exchanged emails about it with the director of the main STD/HIV clinic there. They cannot remember when they ever had an ex-pat who acquired HIV from a commercial sex worker in UAE.
I would have recommended against taking antibiotics. However, in the very unlikely chance you had acquired a bacterial STD (gonorrhea, chlamydia, NGU, syphilis) the combination of cipro and doxy would cure it.
For all those reasons, you can be very sure you caught neither HIV nor any other STD from the oral sex event. You can safely have unprotected sex with your wife when you return home.
I hope this has helped. Best wishes-- HHH, MD
You need not be at all worried. Oral sex is safe sex! The risk is zero or exceedingly low for some STDs, including HIV, and very low for all others. HIV infection has ever been proved to be transmitted from mouth to penis -- never, not once in the 30+ years of the worldwide AIDS pandemic. As for other STDs, scrotal itching is definitely not an STD symptom. Herpes does not cause itching alone -- open herpes sores (which you don't have) can itch, but anyway the oral contact was with your penis, so that's where any herpes outbreak would have been.
In addition, few if any sex workers in Dubai have HIV. There have been many questions about it on this forum, and I have several times exchanged emails about it with the director of the main STD/HIV clinic there. They cannot remember when they ever had an ex-pat who acquired HIV from a commercial sex worker in UAE.
I would have recommended against taking antibiotics. However, in the very unlikely chance you had acquired a bacterial STD (gonorrhea, chlamydia, NGU, syphilis) the combination of cipro and doxy would cure it.
For all those reasons, you can be very sure you caught neither HIV nor any other STD from the oral sex event. You can safely have unprotected sex with your wife when you return home.
I hope this has helped. Best wishes-- HHH, MD
I should mention the sex was not with my partner and was in Dubai, UAE if that matters. Can I resume a normal unprotected sex life with my partner? I will never do this again, the anxiety is killing me.
Thanks
Thanks
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Herpes spreads by oral, vaginal and anal sex.
Herpes sores blister, then burst, scab and heal.
STIs are the most common cause of genital sores.
Millions of people are diagnosed with STDs in the U.S. each year.
STDs can't be transmitted by casual contact, like hugging or touching.
Syphilis is an STD that is transmitted by oral, genital and anal sex.
