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Preventing possible syphilis
Would taking doxycycline (100mg 2x a day for 14 days) prevent a possible syphilis infection? I started taking the doxycycline 2 days after I had unprotected sex with a female bartender. I also took 2g Azithromycin and 400mg cefixime12 hours after the encounter. Then after I completed 14 days of doxycycline, I took a course of the cefixime (400mg daily for 10 days).
Do I still need to worry about possible syphilis infection? It has been 37 days since the encounter and I do not have a lesion yet.
Do I still need to worry about possible syphilis infection? It has been 37 days since the encounter and I do not have a lesion yet.
bottom line is - you need proper testing. it's never in your best interest to just treat and hope it took care of everything without proper testing first. It's part of why we have antibiotic resistant infections being such an issue around the world.
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I read that syphilis is rare in developed countries. My encounter happened in Calgary Canada - does anyone know if this makes my chances of contracting this higher? I can not find any statistics for this area.
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