Venereal Arthritis / sexually acquired arthritis question

[lifeslesson]

After an encounter a little over a year ago I started to develop these strange muscle and joint paint that seemed to be random and presented no swelling. The pain is often short lived and would go away within 5 or 10 mins.

I have seen my GP who has done some blood work to which all my levels come back normal. Was refrerred to a Rhuematologist who also ordered all kinds of blood work and came back as all normal. I even asked him if he thought that maybe this was soemthing STD or STI related. He said that none of my bloodwork shows any type of bacterial or viral markers.

I have also used a discreet testing site online to get a full STD panel to include Mono, Trich and Mycoplasma and  HIV testing done. All negative. In fact did my HIV test again after a year and its thankfully negative. I never presented any of the classic symptoms of an STD but still to this day have the random and roving muscle and joint pain.

I was reading recently that if you have a case of Reactive Arthritis or Venereal Arthritis a culture test wouldnt be sufficient to find Chalmydia or Gonorreah. Just worried about that a bit. Is this all in my mind and the stress is freaking me out? I am married and my wife has no symptoms either.

[Life360_Dave]

Hi,  even if you got an std a year ago it would have cleared up on its own withe the bodies natural immne system and symptoms of stds are white puss penis discharge, burning while urinating, urethra itching or genital sores not what your describing.