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atypical herpes symptoms, confused
9 hours ago in the STDs Expert Forum
There is a limit to the length of questions that can be asked. I think it is 2,000 characters, i.e. around 400 words. I have neither the time nor the energy to read and digest the large amount of information in the comment window below. Please condense your question, including all supporting information, to 2,000 characters or less and post it in a new com...
HPV with different symptoms?
9 hours ago in the STDs Expert Forum
Welcome to the STD forum. Your symptoms don't suggest any STD, and I doubt they are related in any way to your sexual encounter a year ago. There are many (hundreds?) of causes of skin rash, and many (most?) of them sometimes involve the genitals. I don't know what you mean by "I learned about the chlamydia". Have you been diagnosed with chlam...
hiv outside the host
Nov 30, 2009 01:39PM in the HIV Prevention Expert Forum
You may not continue to post anxiety-driven follow-up comments about outlandish HIV transmission scenarios. I deleted the one about insect bites. If you post anything more, the entire thread will be deleted without reply.
Oral Sex With Transexual
Nov 30, 2009 01:34PM in the HIV Prevention Expert Forum
As you suspect, there are no data by which to judge risk based on the details of oral sex. But even doubling an extremely low risk still means extremely low risk. You should not lose sleep over something like 1 in 5,000 versus 1 in 10,000.
Soreness, skin tears, bleeding after intercourse ??
Nov 30, 2009 01:22PM in the STDs Expert Forum
Welcome to the STD forum. I cannot comment on whether or not you had warts, but self-diagnosis (if you are not a health professional) is quite unreliable. If you had warts, and they are now gone, they would not be causing the symptoms you describe. In addition, you don't describe anything that makes be believe you actually have herpes. This sounds mos...
Worried and want to move on..
Nov 30, 2009 01:08PM in the HIV Prevention Expert Forum
You had a low risk exposure. Heterosexual HIV transmission in the UK occurs mostly among immigrants from AIDS-endemic area, like southern Africa. Even among CSWs in London, only about 1 in 1,000 have HIV -- so the chance your partner had HIV is extremely low. Therefore, from a strict risk-assessment perspective you didn't need HIV testing at all; the ben...