[Question #10979] Syphilis test at 6 weeks
18 months ago
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Doctor as advised by you i went and visited doctor and he said to take test for syphilis first
I took 2 tests today itself vdrl card test and vdrl rpr test both these tests were non reactive. This is my 41st day of exposure and tomorrow it will be six weeks also i dint get any symptom till now. Also as said my exposure was only for 5-10 seconds, i pulled out immediately after my condom broke. But she was syphilis positive when tested after 5 days
Doctor can i consider this test as conclusive?
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H. Hunter Handsfield, MD
18 months ago
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You're asking me to repeat the exact same things we discussed in your other thread. Probably your negative result at 6 weeks is conclusive and most experts would say you need no more testing. However, some advise three months, especially when the risk is particularly high -- as it is for you, having had partly unprotected sex (condom failure) with a person at her most highly infectious stage of syphilis. As I also said last time, I still advise that you see a doctor who understands syphilis and discuss possibly being treated with benzathine (long acting) penicillin, which is the usual standard for syphilis care after exposure to a known infectious case.
You cannot talk me into not advising penicillin treatment. I have nothing more to say about it. For more detail, go back and carefully re-read the other thread.
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HHH, MD
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