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STD Risk After Encounter
Dear Doctors,
Here is what happened: I had sex with a woman that I met in a bar a month or so ago on the East Coast. She gave me unprotected oral and we had protected vaginal sex twice I ejaculated in her mouth once. There were no problems with the condoms that we used. I have a regular partner who is getting back from a business trip that she has been on for the last 2 months. Do I need to be worried about having picked up an STD from the East Coast woman? I am really scared. Thanks so much for your time!
Here is what happened: I had sex with a woman that I met in a bar a month or so ago on the East Coast. She gave me unprotected oral and we had protected vaginal sex twice I ejaculated in her mouth once. There were no problems with the condoms that we used. I have a regular partner who is getting back from a business trip that she has been on for the last 2 months. Do I need to be worried about having picked up an STD from the East Coast woman? I am really scared. Thanks so much for your time!
MEDICAL PROFESSIONAL
Glad to help. I anticipate that your tests will be negative. EWH
Thank you so much doctor. I will probably go get tested anyways, but your words make me feel much much better.
MEDICAL PROFESSIONAL
Welcome to the Forum. your risk of infection from the encounters you describe, particularly in the absence of symptoms now, a month afterwards makes it unlikely you acquired any STD. Condom protected sex is virtually no risk and as long as the condom was used throughout sex and stay on, you can be confident you did not get any STD.
As for oral sex, for better or worse, unprotected receipt of oral sex is an inefficient way to transmit STDs. Of the bacterial STDs only gonorrhea and nongonococcal urethritis (NGU) are transmitted through oral sex; chlamydia is not and without an obvious sore or lesion on your partner’s mouth, the chances of syphilis and herpes is likewise tiny. If you had gotten gonorrhea, NGU or for that matter any other STD you would have most likely developed symptoms by this time. Even if your partner had an STD (any STD and it is likely she did not), most exposures do not lead to infection. In your case, I would urge you not to worry. If you must, you could go to your local STD clinic or health care provider to be tested at this time. The tests will be negative and in my opinion, you do not need testing at all.
I hope these comments are helpful. EWH
As for oral sex, for better or worse, unprotected receipt of oral sex is an inefficient way to transmit STDs. Of the bacterial STDs only gonorrhea and nongonococcal urethritis (NGU) are transmitted through oral sex; chlamydia is not and without an obvious sore or lesion on your partner’s mouth, the chances of syphilis and herpes is likewise tiny. If you had gotten gonorrhea, NGU or for that matter any other STD you would have most likely developed symptoms by this time. Even if your partner had an STD (any STD and it is likely she did not), most exposures do not lead to infection. In your case, I would urge you not to worry. If you must, you could go to your local STD clinic or health care provider to be tested at this time. The tests will be negative and in my opinion, you do not need testing at all.
I hope these comments are helpful. EWH
I should add that I have had no symptoms that I think would be related to an STD.
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