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Syphilis?
I am guilt ridden because i have been doing things outside of my normal sexual patterns. I have been dabling in illegal drugs and have been somewhat intimate with other males. I have not had sex nor kissed but I have had mutual masturbation and have been given oral sex. Honestly everytime this has happened I have almost always never been able to get an erection and either just watch other people doing stuff at bath houses etc or get oral on me while flacid few erect The cocaine impairs erections. Then later I feel like I have every rancid disgusting STD on the planet. I have been tested in the past for HIV. I am educated so I understand my HIV risk.I make every female partner get tested multiple times. I see that you say syphilis is rare very very rare...during oral yet the reports in the news state this dramatic RETURN of syphilis..mostly due to oral sex in MSM. You all say hard to get if no sore present---I have heard you need a break in the skin some friction my shaft has nothing my pubic area about between my pubic hairline and begining of my penis I had a bump...in september of 2011 I messed around with it poked pulled at it,it bled,went down and hardened I kept picking at it.My syphilis research almost always has a rash on hands and feet. MC. Dermatology section on this very site says its not really all that contagious. I have been dating a woman for a while and she does not have this. I have not had sex with men where my pelvic being close to theirs has occured. Its all been mutual mast and oral recvd. Yet I feel doom. So what is it...its not pink---its now darker because I have picked at it so much...I have shaved my pubic area bald... in the past several times. I dont know...I am obsessed with MC now. Picking at this thing hurts...I can pick layers off it..and then its scabs up and gets hard...idk. Why do you all say syphilis is low risk via oral? Cant it be from the inside of the mouth that you do not see the sore? Syphilis in the pubic region?
MEDICAL PROFESSIONAL
This is a repetivie question. My answer has not changed. From above "Thus why not just put your fears to the test an get a test. If the lesion you are so concerned about was syphilis, your blood test would be positive. In your case however, I have no doubt that your test will be negative." EWH
I had my GF look at MC pics and look closely at my lesion in my pubes. There was no waxey material or anything that oozes...She pulled some hairs that were around it..based on her examination it looked like something filled with blood...as a result of maybe an old ingrown hair....she plucked some hairs around it and applied peroxide. I am also on zithromax for a soar throat from a cold. But I am only taking the one dose a day as recommended. I have read how the zithromax is supposed to be taken and I dont think it was the antibiotics but it seems to have gone down. Could a syphilis chancre have lasted 5 months? Again I saw it first in December and been picking at it since. No secondary rash---and it never went away until now that I applied some peroxide and plucked some hairs away from it...there is no puss...it never oozed so I do not think it was syphilis...again its way up in my pubic area.
MEDICAL PROFESSIONAL
Can't comment on the "MC craze" sorry. Have not noticed it.. EWH
I will do that---whats with this whole new MC craze? The docs in dermatology dont consider it an STD but more of a hygiene issue...and even then its doesnt seem like i have that ....because of the texture
MEDICAL PROFESSIONAL
You're right, you post was difficult to follow. Despite that, syphilis is just not a possiblity from either your initial or subsequent posts. There are many possible causes of a recurring lesion but syphilis is not among them in the manner you describe. In the pubic area folliculitis is the most likely possibility.
Sorry, we do not look at pictures on this site. We've tried this a number of times and our experience is that they are just too often misleading. There is no substitute for having a trained clinician take a look at a skin lesion that you have questions about. That is what I woul suggest- perhaps going to yoru local STD clinic or a ermatologist. EWH
Sorry, we do not look at pictures on this site. We've tried this a number of times and our experience is that they are just too often misleading. There is no substitute for having a trained clinician take a look at a skin lesion that you have questions about. That is what I woul suggest- perhaps going to yoru local STD clinic or a ermatologist. EWH
I have a clear picture of this--no genital exposed in picture -- is it possible to email you this? If you send me a message maybe I can reply?
I had read about MC and this websites derm section and read on someone elses thread it wasnt contagious. Could it be hygiene related? Lubrication and not washing after masturbation....i have 1000 mg of antbiotics..zithromax...dont know if that cures it..syphilis....if it is syphilis... A friend also told me a nuerosurgens wife gave birth to child with syphilis...my friend works in the nicu at a hospital. So how could such wealthy people miss this? The rash, sore etc. Am I working myself up? Is this syphilis? Nothing is on my penis no sores. there has been irritation due to masturbation but nothing else.
I think you may have misunderstood my rambling. I just learned about MC. From this website. Nobody has examined this lesion. I know its been there before and left and now its back and not going anywhere. The information I got about it was from the dermatology section on this site. The lesion itself appeared in Sept 2011 It is now January. I dont know if picking it can make syphilis stick around. As I said I have shaved the area in the past...I dont know if that could be it. I dont know if it was the sight of an ingrown hair and now is a scar....I just dont want it to be syphilis. I know i have read all these reports of syphilis on the rise and it due to oral. But I have no sores on my penis and no rash on hands feet nothing. Would a syphilis sore still be around? I took a picture when I first started to pic at it in September of 2011.
MEDICAL PROFESSIONAL
I think you have already answered your own question. You have been examined by a trained clinician who has told you that you have molluscum contagiousum which in many cases is not an STD. Your picking and scratching has likely irritated it an perhaps even caused scarring which is the reason the lesion has the dark color you describe. If this was syphilis don’t you think your dermatologist would have said so….or have one a test??
The empiric FACT, as verified by study of the infection is that syphilis resulting from oral sex is so rare as to be a reportable event of interest. Similarly syphilis of the public region is likewise extraordinarily rare. The tone of your question however suggest that there in nothing I can say to dissuade your guilt driven fears. Thus why not just put your fears to the test an get a test. If the lesion you are so concerned about was syphilis, your blood test would be positive. In your case however, I have no doubt that your test will be negative. EWH
The empiric FACT, as verified by study of the infection is that syphilis resulting from oral sex is so rare as to be a reportable event of interest. Similarly syphilis of the public region is likewise extraordinarily rare. The tone of your question however suggest that there in nothing I can say to dissuade your guilt driven fears. Thus why not just put your fears to the test an get a test. If the lesion you are so concerned about was syphilis, your blood test would be positive. In your case however, I have no doubt that your test will be negative. EWH
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Herpes spreads by oral, vaginal and anal sex.
Herpes sores blister, then burst, scab and heal.
STIs are the most common cause of genital sores.
Millions of people are diagnosed with STDs in the U.S. each year.
STDs can't be transmitted by casual contact, like hugging or touching.
Syphilis is an STD that is transmitted by oral, genital and anal sex.
