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Do I have trich or Mgen? Unprotected sex on 12/28 and 1/6

Hi so I've been having persistent NGU symptoms that have been very distressing and it’s been difficult finding answers. I thought maybe it was related to my withdrawal from weed in late Jan but I don't think so. The symptoms are a leaky, "crawling" irritated feeling in my penis along with a slight discharge that is constant. It doesn't "drip" and is clear, not yellow or green. Slight odor but hard to tell. I know genital secretions are normal but this is constant and very distracting and the spot in my underwear where the penis sits has been wet. The symptoms have come and gone. Here's a timeline:


12/28 and 1/6: unprotected piv sex with female

2/22: discharge and leaky crawly feeling appears. given a shot of ceftriaxone and given doxy for 7 days @ ER. symptoms go away a few days in.

3/02: symptoms come back. a few days later begin a course of penicillin as a swab taken by my doc revealed E. faecalis infection which i know is not an sti. symptoms go away a few days into course.

3/18: symptoms reappear and stay

3/30: begin another penicillin course

4/4: symptoms go away, stay gone until 5/5.

5/7: took 1g of zpak, no real effect.


The symptoms are still here unfortunately. My scrotum has also been tingly, and achey jaw joints. I went to an ER 5/8 just so a doc could see the discharge and that it wasn't my imagination. He saw it and asked if I had been tested for trich. I did test for trich via urine dna test @ quest on 3/4, negative. tests for G/C have also been repeatedly negative. Test on 5/4 for Mgen was negative as well. He prescribed me 7 days Flagyl and said it should clear up my symptoms as trich was the only thing I wasn’t treated for and that he’d be surprised if it didn’t work.  I’m just looking for ideas. Could it be anxiety manifesting the symptoms?

Also I started having a lot of wet dreams several nights in a row even during naps in the day in late Jan when I quit smoking and using weed oil. i thought maybe this was connected to my penis acting up but I don't have wet dreams happen anymore. So this has just been really confusing. I'm wondering if this is Trich bc it's come and gone OR Mgen because I was having muscle aches and I've had achey jaw joints often recently and a swollen lymph node below my right ear. NO PAIN while urinating though or pooping. I'm not sure where to ask bc finding answers has been hard so I'm asking here. Thank you in advance
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Has this issue you’ve been dealing with been cured yet?
I’m curious to know I am going through the same thing pretty much. It’s exhausting!!
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Let me know thanks!
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How are things now?  Any better?
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So I was diagnosed with the E. faecalis infection again on 5/17, it showed heavy growth for that along with something called p. loescheii. thankfully that required flagyl which i was already taking. i was prescribed another penicillin course, 4 times a day for 10 days. by day 7 my symptoms really started to drop off and today is day 8. i’m starting to feel a little better but it’s hard to tell. if this is what does it though i’m going to feel very lucky because it seems people really struggle with this infection. my prostate isn’t inflamed as confirmed by my urologist so that’s good. anyway i see my dr wednesday so I may have her try and give me more penicillin since this infection seems really persistent. we’ll see how i’m feeling then
207091 tn?1337709493
My only question would be is if you've had any imaging tests done. You've taken a lot of antibiotics, and it's good that they are running urine tests, but since infections seem to be ruled out, the next step is to rule out anything structural happening, or inflammation, etc.

I'd also ask for a referral to a urologist.

I'm going to get this moved to Urology. You've exhausted the STD route, and I want to make sure that you get better answers from people who are more familiar with urological issues.
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Thank you for the reply. I had a testicular ultrasound done in April and an ultrasound done of my groin lymph nodes as well and all seems fine. I’ll be seeing my urologist tomorrow. One thing that has happened is I had trace blood in my urine on 2/21 at a clinic which is what made me go to the ER the first time. but urinalysis there yielded nothing. Trace blood appeared again around 3/12 at my pcp’s office but was negative when i gave them one more sample. Hasn’t happened again. Anyway I hope I can clear things up at urology tomorrow.
I also had a CT scan on 2/22 showing nothing remarkable except for the “appendix not being entirely visible” but everything else says unremarkable
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