Glad to hear it. Take care. EWH
Doc
As you throught both HIV and Syphilis came back negative. Thanks for both your instinct and medical knowledge.
These are too long. Perhaps the delays represent the time required for lab processing or other processes. In the lab, each of these tests can be done in a single day. Further, they may have build extra time into their time frame to allow extra time sometimes required for dealing with more difficult cases. EWH
I went to the county STD clinic on Monday morning. They said that a turnaround for a syphilis screen is about 10 days, does that sound right to you? This will be my last post, but I will repost and let you know the test results, i guess in about 8 more days.
They decided to draw for HIV - an RNA test, and said that could take 3 weeks, also does that sound right to you? I know from what I have read that the risk from Syphilis was very low, and HIV almost non existant?
The rash of syphilis does nto tend to go. It appears and then gradually fades, typically over a couple of weeks.
Chancres can be somewhat variable in opinion. EWH
Doc
I understand, and will keep the appointment. THese comments do help.
Just one point of clarification, the chanker can vary in appearence? the rash can come and go?
thanks
Welcome back to our Forum. Transmission of syphilis through the exposure you describe would require that your partner had a open syphilitic lesion on his hand. Such lesions are very, very rare. Thus the odds that your rash was due to syphilis are quite low. that said, strange things happen. While I would be VERY surprised is this turns out to be syphilis, testing will give you confidence that you do not have syphilis. If the lesion you described were syphilis, you can be completely sure that your syphilis blood test would be positive. Thus testing to be completely sure that you don't have syphilis is reasonable.
The timing of both the appearance of your lesion and of your wife's rash could fit with syphilis but they are more likely to just be coincidence.
Why not keep the screening. They should do the syphilis blood test at that time. That really is the only test you need.
Hope these comments help. As I said, I would be flabbergasted if you turned out to have syphilis from the exposure you describe. Please let me know what your tests show. EWH