Symptoms persisted so visited my doctor.  He performed a DRE and said based on my symptoms that I had prostatitis.  Put me on doxy for 1 month.

Is it safe to assume this issue is in no way related to the hand to genital massage experience?  

It's not possible to have gotten NGU, Chlamydia or Gonn through that hand to genital encounter right?  What about from the towel she used to clean me up?

Is prostatitis even related to any of those infections anyway?

Thanks!

Prostatitis is not sexually acquired or transmitted. In your other thread we also discussed in some detail that no STDs, including NGU, chlamydia, or gonorrhea, are ever transmitted by hand-genital contact. And your symptoms were not consistent with any of these infections anyway. As also discussed last time, your symptoms were most consistent with genitally focused anxiety over a regretted sexual exposure. And while I cannot criticize the diagnosis of a physician based on direct exam, I am skepical you have prostatitis and will be surprised if doxycycline makes any difference in your symptoms. Prostatitis is not an easy diagnosis, and in fact most prostatitis is now reclassified (by the American Urological Association) as chronic pelvic pain syndrome. I suggest you google CPPS (spell it out) and see how well it describes your situation. There's a very good Wikipedia article and also excellent information from the Stanford University dept of urology. You may wish to discuss this possibility with your doctor.

Sorry I can't be more helpful, but hope this information is useful. Best wishes--

HHH, MD

I too hope you get relief from your symptoms. But I also want you to have realistic expectations.

Forgive me if I'm misunderstanding your response, but for clarity are  you saying prostatitis in fact can be sexually acquired vis a vis a gonorrhea infection?  

Final question- suppose the masseuse had bacteria from one of those STIs on her hand - after a 45 min normal massage with oil , would those bacteria stilll be viable?

 Thx

Your "final question" is based on a misconception. It does not matter whether or not the bacteira or viruses that cause STDs can survive 45 minutes on someone's hands. Probably not, but nobody knows for sure and nobody should care. If hand-gential contact neverresults in transmission, the biological reasons don't matter.

That completes the two follow-up comments and replies included with each question, and so concludes this thread. Please note the forum does not permit repeated questions on the same topic or exposure. This will have to be your last one; future new questions about this exposure, testing, and your fears about STDs from this or similar events will be deleted without reply and without refund of the posting fee. This policy is based on compassion, not criticism, and is designed to reduce temptations to keep paying for questions with obvious answers. In addition, experience shows that continued answers tend to prolong users' anxieties rather than reducing them. Finally, such questions have little educational value for other users, one of the forum's main purposes. I trust you will understand.