H. Hunter Handsfield, M.D.
As Dr. Hook made clear in responding to your question several weeks ago, the sexual encounter you described was not a risky one and there was little or no STD risk. He further counseled you that your symptoms were not due to any STD. Since it is not possible you caught an STD, it is equally impossible that you infected your wife. Anyway, no STD is likely t...
This doesn't change my opinion or advice. If a GUM clinic could not find an infection, you can be sure you don't have one. You describe a fairly common symptom among many men. Here is a recent question that covers it; you can find many others by using the search function. (I tried it with "discharge bowel" and came up with 61 threads.)
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Not only have I not seen this personally. In 30 years there has not been a single such case in my STD clinic -- and the clinic sees about 14,000 patients each year. And to my knowledge there are no reports of it in the medical literature. Even in health works, herpetic whitlows are rare -- even rarer these days, with increased use of gloving, but such case...
Kissing transmits syphilis only if infectious lesions are present in the infected person's mouth. Asymptomatic lesions like that sometimes occur in secondary syphilis.
I can't say whether the tonsil would have had to come into such direct contact. Probably yes, but not necessarily.
Chancres can be of any size.
That has to be the limit on this thread...
That concern was obvious and I saw this comment before I replied above. Although this forum doesn't make psychological diagnoses, "excessive paranoia" is your term -- and it seems it might fit. If you continue to be concerned about such exposures, it might be wise to seek counseling. People with normal thought processes do not have these fears. ...
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Based on 3 or 4 questions on this forum (going back to 2007), you are inappropriately worried about nonsexual transmission of HSV. It is time for you to learn and remember this simpe fact: No sex, no genital herpes and no HSV-2. Period. It is not transmissible via toilet seats or otherwise by contamination of the environm...
