I had a brief oral experience around 10 years ago. The woman giving me my massage started kissing my shaft and head of penis for a few seconds. Her lips might have been slightly opened, can't remember. I have read where a person can get gonorrhea from oral. Had a probe of my urethra. The genprobe  media received with wrong swab. Used VTM MEDIA. They said interpret results with caution. Results were negative for c. trachomatis rRNA and negative for N. gonorrhea r RNA. I should be happy, but does using the wrong swap screw up the test. The hospital lab manager said that my test done 6 years ago should be accurate using the old system.  Should I get retested. My GP said I  should be ok but if I  wanted retested he would do it.

Indeed you should be happy about your test resutls. Using the wrong swab has no known no effect on the reliability of the test results. When a test receives regulatory approval (e.g. by FDA in the US) under certain cercumstances, such as a particular kind of swab, the manufacturer must provide warnings like the one you say ("interpret with caution") if the identical procedures are not followed. It doesn't mean the result is necessarily unreliable. I agree with your GP and advise against retesting.---

Dr H, I have had a horrible year with aches and pains. I  then do the stupid thing and look at the internet to diagnose myself and find that one negative article that sends me over  the edge with stress. One example finger joint pain, it must be a STD. Hey, gonorrhea can cause joint pains so that must be it. I'm so worn down I'm to the point it's hard to function.  I'm so sorry to have posted over and over again on subjects that scare me. I need my fun life back, because this is really depressing. So in closing. I thought STD's lasted a lifetime,.It's good to know for the people out there that some can resolve themselves.

I agree that searcing online is often a poor way to figure out the cause of obscure symptoms, especially by anxious persons who may already be obsessed with a particular possible cause. The evidence from your multiple posts is that you are fixated on that distant past sexual exposure and a sexual decision you regret. But it was very low risk; most STDs cannot persist this long; and you have been repeatedly tested for others, like syphilis. There is absolutely no rational reason for suspicion that your "aches and pains", finger pain, or anything else has anything to do with that distant past event.---

"I hear they have swabs made out of different materials ( cotton and synthetic fibers )." True. ---