Please Help Me out with this rare case of syphilis occurence.
I was diagnosed syphilis in Des 2016. I also tested other STIs like HIV,Gonnorea,Chlamydia, and Hep,but all were negative. No sexual intercouse since Feb 16 (time when I got syphilis through oral sex). I got treatment for early syphilis (single dose penicillin 2,4 MU intramuscular). My syphilistic titer history since then :
Des 16 : 1/128
Mar 17 : 1/16
Jul 17 : 1/4
Oct 17 : 1/4
Nov 17 : 1/2 --> Quite sure, I was cured
Feb 18 : 1/8 --> I was so panic. I'd tested in 2 different clinics with the same methods (VDRL) and came with the same result 1/8. The next day I got HIV tested to make sure it was not due to HIV and it came to negative result. I had consulted to a doctor and she said it's ok because it's occured in low titer so she thought it was due to "quantitiative error/variance test".
Mar 18 : 1/16 --> Quite sure, the syphilis was relapsing.
I had searched on internet (journal, articles, and so on) but found no same case. I just found relapsing symthomatic secondary syphilis in HIV positive but in my case I got no clinical symthom at all, only increasing in titer and no HIV. Is this due to asymthomatic neurosyphilis ? But I read if I were infected neurosyphilis, I won't get a fourfold decreasing change in titer. (My history titer showed a good respond to treatment).
Can anybody tell me what happened to me ? Am I alone with this case? I came accros with article on internet telling that there is "persister bacteria" which means a tiny colony one which can not eradicated by antibiotic because of their characteristic and cause relapsing to their host. Is that I got persister syphilistic bacteria inside my body ? Or Is this because of my asymthomatic syphilis? Please somebody help me out with my case. I am so panic and exhausted :(