This information doesn't change my opinion or advice about STDs.
"Where to go from here" seems pretty obvious to me. People with unexplained symptoms that concern them should visit their personal physicians or other health care providers.
Hello again. It's been nearly four weeks since I experienced symptoms & everything has cleared up except for the pus pockets/tonsil stones & I have a continuous low-grade fever. This could be attributed possibly (the fever) to a high stress level at work, but I don't know where I should go from here. Any further help would be greatly appreciated. Thank you.
Thanks for clarifying the exposure.
STDs are infrequently transmitted by cunnilingus (oral to female genital contact), in either direction. Therefore, you were unlikely to catch an STD; and if you did, you would be unlikely to infect other sex partners.
I see no need for STD testing in this circumstance, for two reasons: it is unlikely you were infected; and if you were, augmentin treatment would clear up most STDs you might have caught. So it would be a waste of money to be tested; the results are guaranteed negative.
One last follow-up question. Even in the unlikely chance I caught an oral std, what are the chances I could spread it to another partner, be it oral sex or straight (vaginal) sex? Thank you for your time.
Sorry, I used the wrong term. I'm a male who performed oral sex on a female partner. I just wanted to know if it would be too hasty for me to spend all of the money on various tests, given the symptoms. I appreciate your feedback & love this site. Thank you for all you do.
Welcome to the forum. Thanks for your question.
I'm not certain exactly what sort of sexual exposure you had. "I had unprotected insertive oral sex" suggests your penis in a partner's mouth, yet you are concerned about a sore throat. You can't acquire an STD genitally and have it show up in the throat.
But even if you mean you had oral exposure to your partner's vaginal area, I doubt it has anything to do with your throat problem. Oral gonorhea sometimes causes sore throat, but over 90% of infections are entirely asymptomatic; chlamydia rarely infects the throat at all, and probably never causes symptoms when it does; oral herpes can cause sore throat, and 3 days would be OK timing for that -- but initial oral herpes would usually painful sores in the mouth or on the lips, so that also seems unlikely.
I also agree that HIV is not the cause: HIV is rarely if ever transmitted by oral sex or kissing, and HIV symptoms cannot start sooner than 10 days after exposure.
By far the more likely cause of your throat problem is a garden variety upper respiratory infection -- probably viral, but perhaps a strep throat. You could have caught it from your partner, especially if there was kissing as well as oral-genital contact. With continuing fever as your sore throat subsides, influenza is a possibility.
If your symptoms continue or you otherwise remain concerned, discuss it with your doctor or return for a follow-up appointment. But in the meantime, you really need not be worried about STDs.
I hope this has been helpful. Best wishes-- HHH, MD