Urine culture followup

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DR, Hunter

Wanted to thank you for the expert advice, and helping me to have peace of mind, I am still working on it though since I still have a discomfort at the tip of my penis, which is like super sensitive I am contributing this to anxiety and as you guys call genitalia focused anxiety right? I recieved an e-mail from DR Zach since I asked him about the culrures as well. His reply was yes many people have ureaplasma, but he is required to treat when first discovered, and the strept was little to worry about as well. Dr if something like a bacteria was to cause a problem then my U/A would not be normal right? just curious I am taking you guys advice this time and do my best to put behind go home to my family and do my best to resist temptation again, the last time last year I really hurt my wife because I told her and ended up in a uroligist office and had the works scope all kinds of antibiotics ect... and the doctor never found anything, mind you I had sex with my wife and we both where fine. I dont want to put her through that again.

[H. Hunter Handsfield, M.D.]

This could have been a follow-up comment in your previous thread, without a new posting fee.

This information doesn't change my opinons or advice in the other thread, and I agree your continued mile symptoms indeed are due to genitally focused anxiety; I expect them to fade away once you have come to both emotional and intellectual understanding that nothing is wrong.  I'm glad to hear Dr. Zach agrees Ureaplasma is common in healthy men; he obviously takes a hyper-cautious approach in treating everybody with a positive test for it.  Most STD specialists wouldn't do that.  (That's not a criticism of his practice; it's just a difference in approach among qualified experts.)

In any case, I see no reason you cannot safely resume unprotected sex with your wife when you get home.

Regards--  HHH, MD

[H. Hunter Handsfield, M.D.]

I am unaware of any credible evidence that Ureaplasma is transmitted by oral sex -- but also unaware of evidence that it can't.  But I'm sure the large majority of infections are transmitted by vaginal intercourse.  In any case, many people carry it in their genital tracts for years on end.  Your positive test result almost certainly is unrelated to your non-marital oral sex exposure.  More likely both you and your wife have had it since day 1 of your relationship.

My strong advice is that you stop searching the internet about any of this.  Like many anxious persons, it's pretty evident you are being selectively drawn to information that inflames your anxieties and not seeing or understanding the reassuring parts.

Thanks again for the thanks about the forum.  But that will be all for this thread; I won't have any further comments or advice.

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DR Hunter

I was reading some older post on this site like 2008 that Ureaplasma is impossible to transmit thru oral sex? is that true?  

Thanks again for this great site

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Thanks again DR is hard to get this off my mind, so much information on the net, scares me more about this ureaplasma, was my colony count high or that doesn not matter in your opinion. I stopped taking the antibiotics anyway

sorry to bother you again