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Gonorrhea Symptoms won't go away

I had sex with a random girl I met at a bar about 5 weeks ago and started having penile discharge about 4 days later. I went to the doctor about 2 days later when the discharge was yellow for sure, and did a blood test. I was given a single dose of Azithromycin (zithromax) and an injection of 250mg ceftriaxone mixed with 10mg lidocaine in the butt that day for gonorrhea and chlamydia, since it was likely I had one and/or the other. I let the doctor know a week later that my symptoms had not gone away (all the blood work came back negative). So he prescribed a week of doxycycline. The discharge started decreasing but was not completely gone by the end of the doxycycline period. At this point, I could still feel a presence of discharge inside at the tip of my penis, but I have to squeeze it out (which I do whenever I go to the bathroom). The discharge is very minimal, to the point that if I squeeze it out and let go it will just go back inside. I went to the doctor for a penile swab the other day to see if anything comes up and now I am awaiting the results for that. Meanwhile, that day, he gave me 4 pills of cefuroxime axetil 500mg to take as a single dose and gave me another week of doxycycline. I am on the third day of the second cycle of doxycycline and I still have the minimal squeeze out discharge. Is this something that will go away eventually or does it sound like something else? Maybe drug resistant gonorrhea? Any recommendations for another medication?

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grace,
all the original blood tests came back negative. I am now waiting on the penile swab test results.
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you should stop squeezing out discharge at this point. it's just unneeded irritation.  

odds are this isn't gonorrhea at this point. did any of your original testing come back as +?

grace
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