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Please help I am LOST

Hi,

Here is my story. I would be very grateful for any input.

Day 0:  Unprotected received fellatio and protect vaginal sex with an escort. Mutual masturbation and vaginal secretion probably in contact with my penis from hands
Day 1: frequent urination and burning tip of the penis for 2 days. I do not urinate frequently anymore
Day 4: intermittent discomfort in the left testicular lasting for 8 weeks as well as discomfort in the upper legs area.
Day 10: a rash, probably a Maculopapular very itchy rash lasting for 6 days. (I had gone to the beach the same day and I started to feel itchy while in the water. I had taken also the day before 1,5 mg of Zithromax)
11 week: White furry tongue (neither fungi or bacterial infection) with a fever of 37,2 Celsius lasting for a week. White tongue persisting until now (3 months) as well as a loss of appetite and weight loss in the legs area. (I had gone to the dentist on the 8th week for a root canal treatment and was on antibiotics Dalacin C 300 for 8 days)
22 weeks: hair loss, mainly from my eyebrows and hair on my torso and stomach. Lasting till now (week 26)
As at today, I still have a white tongue, a loss of appetite and hair loss issues.
I have made STDs check and 7 HIV 1&2 tests all negative. My blood picture is normal. I have just noticed that my WBC and lymphocytes fluctuate within the normal range. I have also done a CD4 CD8 count and they were within the normal range.

What kind of infection could I have caught?
I have come across this new HIV like disease:  

http://edition.cnn.com/2012/08/23/health/adult-onset-immunodeficiency-syndrome
https://sites.google.com/site/newhivaidslikeviruschina/home  

Should I be worried about this disease? Should I do an interferon-gamma (IFN-gamma) and a  quantative immunoglobin tests?
Thank you.
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Many thanks for your advice.

I will make a list of questions. the antibiotics I had taken before my stool analysis and cultures, was Dalacin C 500 for like 9 days (started on December 24th), then 2 weeks later I was on Ciprofaxalin for a week. But the white tongue and loss of appetite came before taking the second antibiotic (Ciprofaxalin).
My stool culture for Candida was done 3 months after taking these two antibiotics. (on the 10th of April)

After taking the 3rd antibiotic Fladazol (on the 17 of april), for treatment of E. Histolytica, my stool analysis showed only few yeast cells.

By the way I do have constipation. My stools go out very easily.
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oh and don't forget to tell him about your weight loss and appetite problems and constipation. After you tell him about E. histolytica infection and the drugs you were on.
mkh9
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I'm confused with your questions so I"ll try to answer them but I may not be right.
1. Don't know what you mean by where will he take a look. I think I was talking about your tongue. Yes, before you had no or few yeast in your stool right and now you had a pure culture of yeast and nothing else grew in the stool culture but yeast? This was after you took all the 3 different antibiotics right? The bread wouldn't do that. You may see a few yeast mixed with lots of normal gut bacteria like E. coli, and so forth but then if they saw only yeast eating bread wouldn't do that. I'm talking about the resistant non candida you said you had in your stool (was that result a pure culture meaning no other bacteria were present). Yes if you were immunocompromised the CD4/CD8 would have been abnormal. At least for HIV and things that attack your lymphocytes. You could test your immunoglubulins like you were thinking of doing to get more information. Your complete blood count was also normal. Usually, you would be feeling tired if you had some problem other than the parasite. 3. Yes pure culture of yeast non-candida albicans resistant to all bacteria (no other bacteria present).
1.Show him your all your pertinent results.
2.Tell him about your infection with E. histolytica and that you took 3 antibiotics and that your stool had normal flora plus the parasite before and now it has no parasite but came back with the results yeast not candida albicans resistant to all antibiotics. Also, show him your tongue and ask him if that is yeast too. Tell him you were thinking of taking probiotics to try to get your normal gut flora back ask him will that be good enough and how long will it take. Also, ask him if that was caused by the anitibiotics or are you immunocompromised and if you should get the immunoglobulin test even though your CD4/CD8 ratio looks good and your CBC.
3. Tell him about your hair falling out. Ask him if about the high progesterone and zinc. Ask any other questions you have.
4. Ask him if he things the E. histo has cleared and should you keep checking the stool for E. histo and how long after? Could it have gone to the liver?
mkh9
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1. where will he take a look? u mean on my lab results? well in the stool analyses I had done 10 days ago no yeast cells were detected. and for the one I had done today, few yeast cells were detected. the lab technician said that it can be detected if someone ate bread. and I had eaten a good amount of bread before. what is sure is that I have this candida.
Well I will tell him that I was worried about STDs and other contagious infections because of my symptoms.
if I was immunocompromised this would have been seen in my lab results right? like on my CD4 CD8 tests?

2. I will ask. but shouldn't I have symptoms related to that?

3. What do you mean by pure culture?
    no organism found in the stool I have done today. Only in the one I had done 10 days ago which found the amebiasis.
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Ok so yes it is good you caught the parasite and yeast on your own, really good.
1. if it is yeast as the GI doc to take a look. It will only take a couple of seconds for him to find out. It would most likely be from the Gut rather than being immunocompromised. just make sure to tell him of all the antibiotics you took and make a complete list of the tests and results (maybe an Excel file make it easy for him to go through. He may wonder why all the tests were done.
2. You probably should ask him if you should be tested for C. difficile toxin. it would be another stool test. They don't do that on a routine stool culture.
3. since you have the yeast in the stool (it was a pure culture right no other organisms seen?) then GI doc is probably good for now.
mkh9
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Many thanks for your answer and time.

1.I am just trying to figure out  what is the cause of my white tongue. I read that Candida can cause a whitish layer on the tongue. mine doesn't get scraped off. there must be a reason for my white tongue.maybe the candida in my guts affected my tongue?

2. no doctors told me about yeast, I just went by my own and did a stool analysis which showed the parasit, and the candida stool culture. I will take the probiotics and yogurt as you recommended. it is the first time I hear about Clostridium difficile but good I do not have it.

3. So I will go and visti a GI I think this is better than a pathologist or a generalist right?
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