I'M HERE IN MEXICO AND I THOUGHT THINGS WOULD GET BETTER. I'VE BEEN ON THE OFLOXAINE FOR 2 WEEKS NOW. HERE IS WHERE I STAND.
THE TIP OF MY PENIS (MEATUS) IS STILL RED)
SLIGHT PAIN IN MY RECTUM.
FULLNESS FELLING IN MY BLADDER.
SLIGHT PAIN IN MY URETHREA,
SLIGHT TO MODERATE EPIDIDYMITS.
PAIN IN MY LOWER BACK ON BOTH SIDES..(COULD BE KIDNEYS?)
OVERALL I WOULD SAY THE FULLESS FEELLING IN MY RECTUM HAS SUBSIDED AND MY EPPIDIDYMITS IS NOT HAS BAD. MY SYMTPOMS SEEMED TO BE GETTING SLIGHTLY BETTER UNTIL I STUPIDLY DECIDED TO HAVE SOME DRINKS SATURDAY. OVERALL MY SYMPTOMS SEEM TO WAX AND WANE.
QUESTIONS:
SHOULD I GO BACK TO THE DOCTOR HERE? IS IT WORTH IT? HOW IS IT WORTH TAKING ANTIBOTICS? CAN THIS GO AWAY ON IT'S OWN? IF SO HOW LONG CAN IT LAST. IT'S BEEN THREE MONTHS WITHOUT POSITIVE TESTS FOR ANYTHING. COULD THIS BE PERMENANT?
WHAT SHOULD BE MY NEXT COURSE OF ACTION? I'M SO LOST.
Sorry, I just cannot help. I doubt the initial problem was an STD. You might have caught an infection of some sort from your partner, but not an STD. For example, adenovirus or another respiratory infection. Adenovirus often causes urethritis as well as respiratory symtpoms. Or the sex had nothing to do with it, and you just got an environmental virus.
In any case, whatever started it off isn't necessarily the direct cause of the continuing symptoms you describe. Those symptoms definitely are not due to any STD. On top of that, the antibiotics you have had would have eradicated any existing STD.
Finally, when several doctors haven't found clear answers, neither I nor any online source can come up with an answer. If you haven't been referred to an infectious diseases specialist, that would be a reasonable thing to do.
Good luck-- HHH, MD