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Do I have syphilis or HIV?

Back in September17 to October17 I’ve had sex with three prostitutes. Alll were with condoms and they also preferred it that way.  

It is now March 2018 and I have a fiancé who I currently having sex with every day, sometimes rough sex. A week ago I noticed a scab under the head of my penis.  Every time we have sex it re-opens.  I decided this week to give it a chance to heal.  When the scab is open there is no liquid coming out.  

Today I spoke to my doctors and he says just to be safe I should go get tested for syphilis and hiv. I used condoms all the time.

What is the likely hood of it being one of those two diseases. Because right now I am going through depression. My fiancé also this it’s because I force my penis into her all the time or it’s because her iud birth control.  

Please help
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If your sexual intercourse were protected all the time, there is no need of getting tested for HIV. But syphilis is a different story, as this infection can be spread even with condom, just through the contact skin to skin.

Since your encounter with those prostitutes it's been already more than 3 months, so your test for syphilis will be accurate.

All the best.
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So even by touching someone with my hand I can still contract syphilis?
If you touch the lesions that syphilis causes on skin, you can.
it may also be genital herpes, in which case.. well there's nothing you can do but getting just some antiviral and wait for the symtomps goes away by itself

Oh yeah.. you may want to no actually you MUST check the rubber each time you finished and make sure there's no leakage in case there's any leakage, yeah you better get tested for HIV
Thanks I got my test results from his morning and it all came back negative
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