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discharge and groin pain for two years with symptoms that only go away while im on antibiotics
Two years ago I met this girl, I usually dont drink or smoke but I did that day for no reason at all. When Im sober I get regular erections but since I was drunk I couldnt get hard enough to put on the condom (which I always use). I ended up becoming fustrated and not using a condom at all. A week later I had symptoms such as a thin milky discharge, groin pain, tiredness through out the day, red eyes, lose bowels, and headache. I went to the STD clinic and was told that I had NGU and was given a 7 day course of Doxy and told not to have sex for 2 weeks. My symptoms started to clear up after 1 week, but I couldnt stop having sex for the whole two weeks instead I only waited one week. As soon I resumed PROTECTED sex my symptoms came back. Instead of giving up I became a regular at the STD clinic and each time after the first NGU diagnosis all results for every STD were neg. I was given meds from the institution and again told to wait 2 weeks but I could not wait and I got the same results, this happened about 10 times in all. last year I begain seeing a Urologist he prescribed me Cipro and the same thing happened, Id wait a week and resume protected sex and my symptoms would return. My urologist and I have tried different medications Ofloxin, Flagy, Zintro with the same results. Im not a quiter and I listen to my body and not a doctor so I visited my urologist regularly. Currently Ive noticed that while im on the meds as usual my symtoms would return if I play sports or get an erection and fondle my girl. I know that sucks right. Right NOW I take zinthro like asprin and Doxy 2 times a day and I was symptom free until I was over my girlfriends house yesterday and we were cuddleing and I got an erection and I was rubbing my penis on her with my clothes on, right after that I went to pee and it stung a little and right then and there I knew it had returned. This morning I woke up to discharge that was previously gone for about a week and a half, blurry vision from mucus in my eyes and a slight groin ache(which will get worse if I dont take antibiotics). Drinking also flares it up and also when I dance with girls at the night spots it flares up as well. I have tried to stop taking antibiotics, but when I do the infection has its way with my body and you can barely reconize me. It is contagious I know because if I have sex with a girl she complains of yeast infection like symptoms everytime not almost everytime EVERYTIME EVERYGIRL. My Question is AM I ALONE and if I am I need a specialist more than you can imagine. DOES this sound like anything ANYONE has heard of or experienced PLEASE HELP!!!
I agree whole heartedly and thats why im talking to you now lol. But its something wrong and its steeming from an NGU positive test result of 2 years ago I am not stressed, everything else in my life is wonderful.
The only one who knows how they feel is the patient. I thank you for your imput but im not blind nor am I a mental case. Im just saying medicine is trickier than a few pills of penicillin. Doctors tell their patients its anxiety because they dont want their patients to worry while they think of an answer.Im sorry mokey flower im a firm believer that even th best doctors only have yesterdays experience. I would have trusted your answer if you would have said "Something physical is wrong with you just not an STD" but when you explain my physical state and being without being me, its hard to credit your remarks. I use condoms but I have girls who only have sex with me. Im not cheating on these girls its thier choice not to have sex with anyone else.
The pain/anxiety cycle can be very difficult to break. I'm totally with monkeyflower in that - it's doubtful that you have anything at this point that's infectious and needs additional antibiotic treatment. The more you use antibiotics the more they mess with your normal flora and disrupt it which in turn can just make a bad problem worse. You normally do not pass fungal infections back and forth in a couple but at this point perhaps you both need treatment for them since you've disrupted your flora so much with antibiotics you may indeed have a yeast overgrowth. You might want to ask them to send off a yeast urine culture just to cover that base at the clinic. I would use condoms with every partner everytime to see if that helps both you. The ph of sperm can disrupt a woman's delicate ph balance in her genitals and trigger vaginitis frequently and also her ph balance might be further irritating you too. Also your gf needs to make sure it's really a yeast infection she is getting and not either irritation or bv. Women only correctly guess yeast infections 30% of the time according to one study which is far too low to rely on self diagnosis unless you really know what you are doing due to a long history of symptoms.
Do you need antibiotics at this point? I think not and I"d guarantee you that HHH would tell you the same thing ( he wouldn't even have been as nice as monkeyflower was to be honest ). You need chronic pain meds at this point to help break the cycle you are in. It's not that it's all in your head at this point but that your head has allowed your body to get into a cycle that you won't break with antibiotics. Stop popping the zithro like aspirin - it's probably doing as much harm as good at this point unfortunately. In fact one may argue that the aspirin would do you more good because of it's anti-inflammatory effects ;) You also might want to look into a product called culturelle ( www.culturelle.com ) to help re-establish your normal bowel flora from 2 years of antibiotic use. You are killing off your protective flora in your entire body over and over again which just sets you up for more problems too. Some yogurts now have lactobacillus gg in too ( ok so it might just be danimals which is marketed for kids but still ). lactobacillus gg has been proven to colonize the bowel unlike regular acidophilus supplements which never make it the whole way thru. You need to undo the damage of 2 years honey - and it won't happen overnight.
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Do you need antibiotics at this point? I think not and I"d guarantee you that HHH would tell you the same thing ( he wouldn't even have been as nice as monkeyflower was to be honest ). You need chronic pain meds at this point to help break the cycle you are in. It's not that it's all in your head at this point but that your head has allowed your body to get into a cycle that you won't break with antibiotics. Stop popping the zithro like aspirin - it's probably doing as much harm as good at this point unfortunately. In fact one may argue that the aspirin would do you more good because of it's anti-inflammatory effects ;) You also might want to look into a product called culturelle ( www.culturelle.com ) to help re-establish your normal bowel flora from 2 years of antibiotic use. You are killing off your protective flora in your entire body over and over again which just sets you up for more problems too. Some yogurts now have lactobacillus gg in too ( ok so it might just be danimals which is marketed for kids but still ). lactobacillus gg has been proven to colonize the bowel unlike regular acidophilus supplements which never make it the whole way thru. You need to undo the damage of 2 years honey - and it won't happen overnight.
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but the whole point is - what you are doing now isn't working so it's time to try something else. Don't you think?
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I know all about the flora and I have weighed that option at this point. Feeling healthy is my concern not my flora. If I can not function proporly what good is a flora. An internet doctors attitude makes no difference in my actionsor feelings again thanks for the help but an open ear is the key to understanding what the situation really is. You may not know me but I am anything but the person who you believe you are talking to I am an educated god fearing man. Im saying that to say everything that you too lovely souls have just said Ive already heard. My condition flares up after sex if im not having sex im loving life, im a 6'1 195 pound healty male with on problem that I cant seem to get a grip on. My testies hurt now cause I just resumed sex to see if it had cleared up after 3 weeks of no sex evidently it didnt. A yeast urine culture, that sounds interesting and just so I get this right Im being checked for yeast also?
In closing I am a firm believer in mind over matter and this is def MATTER.
In closing I am a firm believer in mind over matter and this is def MATTER.
I'm sorry, but you are seriously overreacting and overmedicating, and probably doing yourself harm by taking so many antibiotics. You don't need them. As for your symptoms, I think that your anxiety (which is certainly palpable in all your posts) is either causing you to overreact/magnify perfectly normal bodily sensations, or even manifesting those sensations. Or maybe it's all those antibiotics. But it's nothing that's going to physically hurt you or anyone else. I do think you should talk to your doctor about medication for your anxiety, though, and consider therapy. I definitely think there's much more here than meets the eye.
And women get yeast infections, all the time. You certainly don't have anything to do with it. But why aren't you using a condom for intercourse, anyway?
And women get yeast infections, all the time. You certainly don't have anything to do with it. But why aren't you using a condom for intercourse, anyway?
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