[Question #13470] Oral STD risk and trusting test

 
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19 hours ago
Hello Drs and thank you for the service you provide. I’ve already used this forum to conduct my own research regarding my situation and am likely aware of the answer I’m going to receive but am asking to ease my own anxiety. I am a male and  recently received unprotected oral sex from another man I met via an online cruising app. The other man seemed affluent, clean, and is approximately 45 years old. I am a married man and felt immediate anxiety about what I had done and the potential of exposing myself and my partner to an STI. I already knew the exposure was low risk for HIV but I became paranoid about chlamydia and gonorrhea. I was prescribed doxypep by a telehealth provider and took it the day after the exposure. On day 7 after the exposure I took a home urine naat test by a mail in testing company that just came back negative today on day 10 for gonorrhea and chlamydia. I have no obvious discharge or urinary pain but do have some “Minty” sensation at my urethra that I think could be anxiety. Is a 7 day mail in urine test enough to put this behind me and move forward with my wife or should I wait to be retested again at 14 days? Assuming gonorrhea would have been obvious by this point. 
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Edward W. Hook M.D.
18 hours ago
Welcome back to the Forum.  On this occasion I happened to pick up your follow-up questions and will be responding (in addition, this response is coming more quickly than is typical- I happened to be on the Forum when your questions came in.  Further follow-ups may take longer).  In preparing to answer your follow-ups, I reviewed your interaction with Dr. Handsfield and agree with all that he said.  I would now encourage you to have complete confidence in the results of your recent urine NAAT tests following your casual encounter.  The medications you took would have prevented any infection that you might have been exposed to from taking hold.  The combination of coxy-PEP plus cefixime and subsequent negative tests provide virtually incontrovertible proof that you were not infected and need not test further.

As for the "minty" sensations you detect, we find that when persons are worried about STIs and "looking" hard for any signs or symptoms, they often notice otherwise normal sensations and mistake them for being abnormal.  Self examination can make the problem worse.

I strongly encourage you to accept that you were not infected through the casual encounter you have described.  There is no medical reason for further testing or for testing of your wife.  

Please don't worry.  EWH
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