Sorry, this forum cannot help further. Your obvious inability to understand or accept my assessment and advice clearly reflects a psychological problem, not a medical one. And in any case, you are asking the same questions that were answered in the previous thread.
1) You correctly understand that disseminated gonococcal infections would cause overt swelling and redness of a couple of joints. It is not a possible cause of your symptoms.
2) The treatments you received would have eradicated gonorrhea if you had been infected in the first place, and therefore testing would be pointless.
3) Your doctor is correct.
Repeated recitation of the medical and scientific facts is not likely to resolve your worries, so do not ask again. Please seek professional counseling to deal with your guilt, which you seem to understand is the real problem here. I suggest it out of compassion, not criticism.
There will be no further discussion on this thread.
HHH, MD
Sorry for the all typos....where it says dry I mean x-ray
While I value what you are saying in terms of my anxiety ( and I am not disputing any of it). I am trying to ease this anxiety with factual and logical science as well as counseling. An approach which I have had success with in the past. All of this is the basis for me asking question # 2. I would like to bring this chapter to an end with a correct test of cure ( i do understand treatment failure seems to be very rare at best but would like to be 100% sure). So I ask this question and then I will ask no more....I wont even visit the forum...I will try my hardest to go in peace no matter the answer.
1) In the unlikely event I failed treatment and the gonorrhea disseminated to my joints (blood stream) would a gonorrhea urine test pick that up?
I am grateful for all you do in your research and with this forum and by no means wish to waste your time. Anxiety over STD's as you have seen for many years is difficult and this situation for me is very hard and I have learned quite a bit about myself.
Thank you so much....really
I'm sorry, I'm not going to support your anxieties by answering speculative scenarios with no basis in reality. Re-read my last reply, concentrate, and get the counseling I sincerely believe you need. This forum is not a substitute for it.
I'm thankful for your greatefulness. Nevertheless, any more of this and the entire thread will be deleted.