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Gonorrhea?

Hello all,

Tuesday night I had sex with a CSW at a massage spot.  Well, technically I didn’t.  I put a condom on and inserted and it immediately failed.  Like right upon entrance.  We both noticed it and stopped.  

I didn’t feel like I had a reason for concern at the time as it was very brief.  But then I got home and kinda freaked.  3 days later I awoke with a sore throat, headache, sore neck muscles, eyeball pain and now I’m noticing white dryness around my foreskin and I’m pretty sure I’m “dripping.”  

Can Gonorrhea cause sore throat and headache, even though oral sex wasn’t performed?

Can you get gonorrhea from licking boobies?

When can I test with utmost certainty that it’ll show up on the test?

Thank you in advance for answering my questions.
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Greetings.
It is kind of unclear if you had an unprotected penis head inserted inside your partner's vagina. But even if you did, your risk for gonorrhea is low since your exposure was brief.
No, gonorrhea cannot cause throat dryness, headache or eyeballpain. Anxiety may be the cause of all those symptoms (or it may be some unrelated infection like covid).
No. Gonorrhea doesn't cause white dryness around penis. It is commonly associated with an obvious pus-like discharge and very intensive pain.
No. Gonorrhea cannot be passed from licking boobs.
You may do an urethral swab any time. If you have gonorrhea (highly unlikely) it should show up.
There's a much bigger problem on hand: your anxiety. You should calm down and think it over carefully.
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Yes, the condom broke and my head was exposed.  Exposed for 3 seconds MAX, but still exposed.  
Truthfully in reading your posts HoarseStallion, you probably should factor in how much anxiety is impacting your mind state here. I get the sense you are very anxious and that makes us think, overthink, ask for reassurance, keep testing, etc. You had such a low exposure, the space this is taking up in your mind is not proportional. I don't know if this is a situation of  spouse involved that would have to be informed of stepping outside the marriage for sex (no judgement) but guilt and anxiety can create a noisy brain we have to work to shut off. You probably need to shut yours off a bit. If you think you have gonorrhea, you had a slight risk so you can test at the appropriate time frame. That's really always the same answer if someone has a condom break. Likely you do not have it. I agree with the assessment that your anxiety is causing you to overthink everything going on in your body. Anxiety is treatable.
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