Sex feels good. Sex is fun. Sex can be a healthy expression of love or emotion … so long as you engage in healthy practices, because, believe it or not, the world just isn’t a safe place anymore. Gay or straight, married or playing the field, you’ll be doing yourself and your sexual partners a favor if you practice prevention to avoid sexually transmitted diseases … STDs. If you think that you may have picked up a little something extra, here are a few common STDs and their symptoms to help you out:
Chlamydia. Very common, not life threatening, but painful and difficult to detect in its early stages, as it may not exhibit any symptoms initially. Chlamydia is a bacterial infection of the genital tract and can be detected by painful or burning urination, vaginal discharge in women and penile discharge in men, pain during sex, and testicular pain.
Herpes Simplex Virus-2. This one causes genital herpes and enters your body through tiny breaks in the skin or mucous membrane. Signs and symptoms are often mild and may go unnoticed. When and if they worsen, they can be detected by small red bumps around the genital or anal area, or by pain and itching around the genitals, buttocks, or in the inner thighs. If ulcers develop, you may experience painful urination or flu-like symptoms, including swollen lymph nodes in the groin.
Gonorrhea. This one is also very common and may remain undetectable initially. It often manifests in the ten days following infection. Symptoms include a cloudy discharge, painful and frequent urination, and pain during sex.
Syphilis. Particularly deadly during the 19th century (Oscar Wilde was rumored to have died from it), syphilis can spread to the heart and brain. Symptoms begin in four stages and begin with chancre sores that develop into a rash that can appear on the palms of your hands and the soles of your feet, fever, fatigue, soreness, and can, if left untreated, cause stroke, visual problems, hearing problems, or dementia. Watch out for this one.
HIV. Famous for the epidemic it caused in the 1980s and for decimating the gay male community, today HIV has infiltrated all sexual walks of life. It is a virus responsible for interfering with the body’s immune system, which means it becomes difficult to fight off diseases, bacteria, and fungi. It is treatable, however, and not necessarily a death sentence. If you visit a clinic, the person administering the test may use a western blot test. Western blot reagents are used to detect specific proteins in a sample or extract of tissue. Since viruses can be the source of protein, western blotting can be used to study and detect the presence of a virus. The confirmatory HIV test uses this test to identify anti-HIV antibodies in human samples. As with other STDs, symptoms may not initially manifest. Some people may feel feverish, have a headache that won’t go away, experience fatigue, sore throat, or other flu-like symptoms. Left untreated, you may experience swollen lymph nodes for more than three months.
If you think you may have an STD, get checked out today!
2 Responses to “Common STD Symptoms”
Something a lot of women don’t realize is that they are at increased risk of getting HIV, herepes, chlamydia or gonorrhea if they have bacterial vaginosis. The problem with bacterial vaginosis is that there are over 21 million women in the US who have BV and 84% don’t have any symptoms so they are unaware of their increased risk of other infections.
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Interesting Thoughts, For a large amount of customers, a night out on the city can initiate in a bar and end in a lodge place. You may likely go on your way right after that, pondering nothing at all of it until eventually the man or woman you were with calls you to counsel that you get checked, or you start out to observe selected signs or symptoms that make you imagine you could quite possibly have an STD. No one would like to be randomly tested, so how do you know what STD symptoms are? There is a standard set of warning signs that countless STDs exhibit, so the following are a handful of to appearance out for.
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