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STDs (Expert Forum)
Do I need to get tested?
Answered by
Edward W Hook, MD - HIV Prevention, stds
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This forum is limited to questions about STDs other than HIV/AIDS. For questions about HIV prevention, or if you have general questions about safe sex (e.g., condoms, how to protect yourself from HIV and STDs), please visit the HIV Prevention and Safe Sex Forum
Some of the most common types of questions concern the risk of HIV or STD after a particular sexual exposure, and about symptoms that might or might not be due to HIV. If your question is along these lines, please visit the HIV Prevention and Safe Sex Forum.
Do I need to get tested?
by massageconcern, May 08, 2008 04:59PM
I'm in Cambodia. Yesterday, I thought I was getting a legitimate massage (therefore I wasn't wearing a condom). The masseuse put her hand on my penis and kissed/licked my penis near my scrotum, for a split second, and then I stopped her. That was the end of it - I stopped her before it went further.
She had no visible cold sores.
I'm currently taking doxycycline as an anti-malarial.
I'm flying home tomorrow and need to know if I should get tested, hold off on having sex with my wife, or be concerned at all about this?
She had no visible cold sores.
I'm currently taking doxycycline as an anti-malarial.
I'm flying home tomorrow and need to know if I should get tested, hold off on having sex with my wife, or be concerned at all about this?
Doctor's Answer
by Edward W Hook, MD, May 09, 2008 02:57AM
, May 09, 2008 02:57AM
You are not at risk from having her handle your penis. STDs are not transmitted this way.
As for your brief oral exposure, 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 or NGU you would have most likely developed symptoms of urethritis (penile infection). In your case, your malaria prophylaxis is likely to have prevented infection, even if she was and is curative therapy for nongonococcal urethritis. Thus I would urge you not to worry. In my opinion, you do not need testing at all, nor to abstain from sex with your wife. Hope this helps. EWH.
As for your brief oral exposure, 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 or NGU you would have most likely developed symptoms of urethritis (penile infection). In your case, your malaria prophylaxis is likely to have prevented infection, even if she was and is curative therapy for nongonococcal urethritis. Thus I would urge you not to worry. In my opinion, you do not need testing at all, nor to abstain from sex with your wife. Hope this helps. EWH.
