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Worried about false negatives and strange symptoms

Hello again, Im a little worried about some persistent symptoms I've been having and want to know what I should do. I had short  unprotected anal sex (receptive for aprox 1 min no ejaculation) aprox 4 months ago. 1 month post exposure I was tested for all std's. Then again for HIV at 2 and 3 months. All results were negative.  I was however, diagnosed with BV. I was prescribed tindomax which i think did nothing but give me a yeast infection. Ever since the encounter I've had some odd symptoms : anal itching and tenderness, occasional bleeding cracks in the rectal tissue, slight burning after urination, irregularly short periods, and extremely painful cramps with menstruation. I wouldn't ordinarily link the menstrual symptoms but wonder if they could be related since the changes coincide with the encounter. I'm just wondering if maybe the chlamidia and gonorrhea urine tests were falsely negative. Or I tested too soon with syphillis or HSV .  Im worried that if it is gonorrhea or chlamydia that it could progress to PID if left untreated.(don't know If it's relevant but  I did not have vaginal sex in this encounter) I had a pap smear at the 3 month dr visit and it came back normal. But I'm still worried. What does this sound like?
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Syphilis risk is low and your symptoms have nothing to do with syphilis.
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Thanks grace
Should I worry about syphillis?
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at this point, you need to be following up monthly as needed with your provider for your symptoms. get properly tested for yeast and bacterial infections vaginally each time youa re seen as well as have them look at anything else going on.

your testing for chlamydia and gonorrhea were accurate at 1 month post encounter.

grace
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