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About a month ago I had intercourse with a professional baseball player, the first condom broke (a second one was put on). A week ago (3 weeks after incident) a bump appeared on my inner labia, it’s the same color as everything else, and it does not hurt. I got screened for STDs and HIV and it was negative. I’m concerned that it could be a syphilis chancre because for some reason they did not test for syphilis during the HIV test even though I asked them to. If it is syphilis is it only contagious now that a chancre is present, or was it contagious the entire time??
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Here is what another website has to say:
"The incubation period for syphilis ranges from 10 days to three months. You can pick up syphilis through oral, vaginal or anal sex with a person who has recently become infected." It also says that syphilis is "very contagious when a chancre is present," but (at least on that site) it didn't seem to be saying it is not contagious if a chancre is not present. That is, if you actually have syphilis.
If you need to tell someone (with whom you had sex in the meantime) that you have been exposed, I would suggest waiting until you know for sure if you even have syphilis. Get tested tomorrow. You might not have to have that conversation. :)
"The incubation period for syphilis ranges from 10 days to three months. You can pick up syphilis through oral, vaginal or anal sex with a person who has recently become infected." It also says that syphilis is "very contagious when a chancre is present," but (at least on that site) it didn't seem to be saying it is not contagious if a chancre is not present. That is, if you actually have syphilis.
If you need to tell someone (with whom you had sex in the meantime) that you have been exposed, I would suggest waiting until you know for sure if you even have syphilis. Get tested tomorrow. You might not have to have that conversation. :)
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I also believe I've read that although painless, a chancre looks like a sore, in other words would not be described as a bump 'the same color as everything else.'
Thank you! That’s what I kept reading too, but I think I got myself freaked out. I have an appointment Tuesday!
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