Hi Dazzletoad
What was the outcome?
Regards
S
Just an update, 16 days after initial treatment this is what I have found.
Ciprofloxacin had been effective in reducing and somewhat diminishing the fluid that was coming from my penis. Each round of the two 3-day (3x 1000mg) dosages had caused the discharge to subside.
However, in each case, a few days after the medication had been stopped the discharge reappeared. The doctor, whom I visited just two nights ago told me that NSU can take months to treat in some cases, up to three. If it takes months to treat in some cases, why did he give me medication for only three days, like the other doctor?
Another thing is why prescribe the same medication for both gram positive and gram negative infection?
And why prescribe the same medication which has evidently not worked the first time around, or for the last 16+ days?
I decided to take matters into my own hands and threw a toss up over azithromycin and doxycycline antibiotics and decided on azithro. I purchased a 6 day course, took 2 pills the first day and will continue on 1 per day till the rest are gone.
If a course of an alternative antibiotic doesnt work (which is prescribed as medication against NSU in normal cases) then I will return to the hospital and make an appointment with the urologist. I will keep this updated.
Thank you so much Grace, great advice.
I will post an update on here in a week or so to let you know what happens either way, but it seems my problem has disappeared. No discharge lately and no other symptoms seem to indicate where this is going.
The contamination thing could answer to the change of stain results. I will make sure to take care too :P
Again, many thanks for your answer ^^
honestly I'd question the 2nd gram stain results since they really didn't do the swab properly. it very well could be contaminate.
at this point since you really don't have symptoms, I'd leave the lil guy alone for a week and let him heal. should you get a return of painful discharge, I'd be seen again for urine testing. no reason to continue to swab you in your urethra and add to your discomfort at this point since all your std testing is negative. make sure they manually examine your prostate too should your discharge and/or pain return.
Hey Grace,
I got blood taken for the HIV test and syphilis. They took urine for chlamydia I assume, and maybe any other signs of gonorrhoea. The first doctor tested blood and urine, and swabbed me.
The results were clean other than the swab which was gram positive. I only got swabbed from him, no culture or dna testing on the results.
The second doctor, whom I saw 9 days later, took urine and swabbed me too, but non insertion, only some discharge which he squeezed from my penis. Again, urine was ok, but the gram stain changed to gram negative. In this instance, like the last, the lab didnt do any further testing, it was a matter of 'The bacteria arent paired, and maybe neisseria family, but aren't dipplococcus'.
On the second doctors contrary opinion, I decided to come and look for some more help here. It is worth mentioning that these doctors are thai, and thai STD clinics (almost non existent independently apparently), even in hospitals, aren't always reliable and there have been numerous misdiagnoses.
I know my answer is a bit bloated, forgive me.
so they are only doing gram staining and not cultures and/or additional proper std testing on you?
grace
Likewise to you.
I had unprotected sex, and went for a check thats that.
Blood testing came back clean for HIV and Syphilis. I was checked and chlamydia wasnt a problem.
I came here hoping for a different opinion since my first check my gram stain came back 'gram positive', and the follow up a swabbing came back 'gram negative'. If that isn't worrying I don't know what is.
You can give an opinion other than talking garbage like 'milking the penis doesn't mean symptoms'.
Perhaps you oversaw it too my friend, but I was seen by two doctors. The medication given would work on gonorrhoea but be less effective on chlamydia, and despite the fact I seem to have gotten better, the reason I am here is to try to understand what happened to me.
Your opinions are valuable to me, but not the redundant ones...
Your sarcastic comments do not play here.
If concerned see a Dr, you have been tested and treated by a Dr and he/she is your best resource.
Don't even know what you did sexually so can't even say if you had a STD risk.
Thank you for that 'in depth' answer. I should point out the first time when I checked it, I wasn't necessarily squeezing my penis, as more looking at it and noticed the liquid, which led to me taking it out.
Discharge or any abnormal fluid coming from my penis is by definition a symptom, since it is an abnormal loss of bodily fluid that isn't urine or semen.
Either way, my symptoms are subsiding. I thought there may have been a bacterial imbalance created by the medication, but that can't be the case since the continued use of another 3 day Ciprofloxacin issue has resulted in less of this fluid being produced.
I thought maybe an irritation or response from the initial swabbing may have caused some problem for me too.
I have read into it, and was looking for a more, say, expanded answer than the one previous.
Milking the penis does not mean you have symptoms.
I should probably also note that my penis displays no redness, no rash, no discolouration, I have no itching or swelling or tenderness, on or around the penis or the testicles.
I don't get burning from urinating either, but my mid urethra feels sore, that I think is from man handling it.