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Two positives and two negatives. HELP
Hey everyone. Long story but I really need help. I am a heterosexual male and I’ve been in a monogamous relationship for over a year and a half. Prior to my relationship I was dumb and I was with a few different women; one I know from school, one I met through a friend, and the third was a random drunk hookup. I wore protection for the drunk encounter but it was broken by the end and I don’t know how long it was that way. I found out that the girl who my friend knew, who I slept with first, has slept around a lot and I immediately went to a clinic and started PEP treatment to be safe but no other testing, my results were fine at the start and the generic doctor told me to take it as ordered and I would be fine so I didn’t go back in after I finished the treatment. I reached out to her and she stated she had all tests done a couple weeks before me with all negative results. Recently I received a message from the girl I know from school and she was at her OB and tested positive for gonorrhea, and she was only tested for gonorrhea and chlamydia. She swears I’m the only one she’s been with since her last exam/tests. So I had to of given it to her? I reached to the other girl who I didn’t know and I asked her if she got tested recently. She made an appointment and messaged me back that she also tested positive for gonorrhea and her doctor tested her for “everything”. I was panicking and was trying to figure out how to have this conversation with my partner and then I had an incident where I had frequent urination with small voids and blood. I panicked and went to the local clinic and did a urine exam for gonorrhea, chlamydia. I told my current partner about the situation and she also did a urine test. My results came back with an E Coli infection but no std and my partners results showed negative results also. My partner and I did the full cycle of antibiotics just in case. But how could my partner and I both test negative, but two girls I was with prior tested positive? I haven’t slept with them in over a year and a half and I’m scared that I had false negatives and should maybe go get tested for other STDs (Syphillis, HIV, HSV, HPV, etc). I guess I’m confused how I can be with two women who tested positive for gonorrhea and both stating they were only with me months apart but then my current partner and I test “negative” a year and a half later. My partner and I are in a serious relationship and don’t use protection. Can another STD mask gonorrhea results? Could I have contracted something more serious like HIV? Just worried about what to do. I don’t want to panic my partner but I think I’m maybe working myself up. Please help! Any advice would be appreciated! Sorry for the long and possibly confusing timeline/story.
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You haven't been with either of the other women in a year and a half?
Have either you or your partner taken antibiotics for anything since you were with those women?
Do the two women know each other? Could they have gotten gonorrhea after you from someone else?
It would be really, really unlikely for you and your current girlfriend to go a year and a half without symptoms and both get false negatives. There has to be another explanation.
Have either you or your partner taken antibiotics for anything since you were with those women?
Do the two women know each other? Could they have gotten gonorrhea after you from someone else?
It would be really, really unlikely for you and your current girlfriend to go a year and a half without symptoms and both get false negatives. There has to be another explanation.
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The one drunk encounter I had I was a little concerned about but the girl from school is someone I know. She has been dating someone else for awhile now and I know the other girl has gone out with other men. The two girls don’t know each other. I’ve only been with my partner for over a year and a half. We both haven’t taken any antibiotics other than the Doxycycline that was prescribed to us when we went to get tested. I guess my concern isn’t the gonorrhea necessarily because I took the full course of antibiotics so that should be cleared regardless.. but why we would both get negatives if two women I’ve been with tested positive? Could it have been a weird mishap by the clinic? Should be concerned if something else is going on?
Well, I asked about antibiotics because if you had taken antibiotics for something else between the time you had been with these other women, you might have cured the gonorrhea, and that's why you tested negative.
Doxy doesn't cure gonorrhea. It cures chlamydia, not gonorrhea. Did you also get another medication?
Did you and your current gf test with a urine test? A swab test?
The girl that is dating someone else - did her current bf test positive?
I don't think you and your current gf have anything else going on, like HIV, if that's what you're worried about. You'd still test positive for gonorrhea. I do wonder if something happened at the clinic, though - maybe some tests got mixed up. It would be really odd for the other women to both get false positives, but then if the woman with the bf, if her bf tested negative, that would lend itself to a false positive.
You mention that one woman was at her OB - is she pregnant? Pregnancy can cause false positives.
And when did you start PEP? Was that recent? You absolutely didn't need that, by the way, and if you didn't start that within 72 hours of an exposure, it's pointless.
When did you take the doxy? When it's been 3 weeks since you took that, you and your gf can re-test and see what the gonorrhea results are. I might go to another clinic, though.
Doxy doesn't cure gonorrhea. It cures chlamydia, not gonorrhea. Did you also get another medication?
Did you and your current gf test with a urine test? A swab test?
The girl that is dating someone else - did her current bf test positive?
I don't think you and your current gf have anything else going on, like HIV, if that's what you're worried about. You'd still test positive for gonorrhea. I do wonder if something happened at the clinic, though - maybe some tests got mixed up. It would be really odd for the other women to both get false positives, but then if the woman with the bf, if her bf tested negative, that would lend itself to a false positive.
You mention that one woman was at her OB - is she pregnant? Pregnancy can cause false positives.
And when did you start PEP? Was that recent? You absolutely didn't need that, by the way, and if you didn't start that within 72 hours of an exposure, it's pointless.
When did you take the doxy? When it's been 3 weeks since you took that, you and your gf can re-test and see what the gonorrhea results are. I might go to another clinic, though.
It was a urine test for both of us. I don’t believe she’s pregnant, she just went for an annual checkup. I took the PEP two days after my encounter with that girl. I took the Doxy a little over a month ago.. but now that you said doxy doesn’t cure gonorrhea, I’m beginning to question the clinic a lot. It’s odd to me that we would both test negative to gonorrhea, but if they only gave me doxy then I’m really uncomfortable with how things were handled. I can call another clinic and see what they say.
If you took the doxy a month ago, you can get another test and see what it says.
The standard of treatment for gonorrhea in the US is doxy AND a shot. Doxy isn't even an alternate treatment.
https://www.cdc.gov/std/treatment-guidelines/gonorrhea-adults.htm
Did you take the antibiotics before or after you tested? Did you wait at least an hour from your last urination, and give the first part of your urine stream?
I do think you are probably negative, since both of you tested negative, and neither of you have symptoms. It's just a strange situation.
The standard of treatment for gonorrhea in the US is doxy AND a shot. Doxy isn't even an alternate treatment.
https://www.cdc.gov/std/treatment-guidelines/gonorrhea-adults.htm
Did you take the antibiotics before or after you tested? Did you wait at least an hour from your last urination, and give the first part of your urine stream?
I do think you are probably negative, since both of you tested negative, and neither of you have symptoms. It's just a strange situation.
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