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STDs (Expert Forum)
Very Worried kid please help
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University of Washington
Seattle - WA
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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.
Very Worried kid please help
by jas3380, May 23, 2008 11:58AM
My roommate just told me recently that he was diagnosed with gonorrhea. I am now freaking out because we live in close proximity share the same bathroom. He might have used my towels. I am also worried because I have athletes foot and there are open wounds on my toes. I am worried that we share that same shower and he may have masturbated in it and my feet could have come into contact with the semen from the shower floor. Am I at any risk for stds or just being crazy.
Doctor's Answer
by H. Hunter Handsfield, M.D., May 23, 2008 03:47PM
, May 23, 2008 03:47PM
I don't mean to downplay your concerns, but really, use a little common sense. You and your girlfriend are not at risk. They call them STDs because you have to have sex to transmit them; you can't get gonorrhea from your roommate if you don't have sex with him. Sharing showers, towels, etc makes no difference. If gonorrhea could be spread in those ways, it wouldn't be an STD; it would be an infection that everybody gets all the time.
Best wishes-- HHH, MD
Best wishes-- HHH, MD
