বৃহস্পতিবার, ২৫ অক্টোবর, ২০১২

Condom Broke - STDs - MedHelp

Welcome back to the forum and thanks for this question.??I assume you have had no recurrence of the apparent herpes zoster that you asked about a few months ago.

You don't say where your partner is from, but HIV is rare in women in both Japan and western Europe, absent other standard risk factors like injection drug use.??The chance of other STDs probably is higher, but still likely to be quite low.??The overall tone of your questions, and your background (business reasons or personal resources to travel between Germany and Japan) suggest you, and probably your partner, are intelligent, educated people.??Such women tend to be very aware of their sexual health, and your partner's belief she has no active STDs probably is correct.

But why don't you just tell her your fears???Maybe you'll find she is just as concerned as you are.??After all, women are at higher risk of HIV and other STDs from their male partners than the other way around.??You should consider just going for testing together.??Mutually negative test results probably would be more reassuring than my words.

Your diabetes makes no difference.??Even poor control is not known to increase the risk of HIV or other STDs if exposed.

For all those reasons, "I can not sleep or eat" is a major overreaction to this situation.??To your specific questions:

1) Your risk for HIV or other STDs is very low.??2) Condom breakage of course increases the risk, but it's still a low risk situation.??Your diabetes makes no difference.??3) You can both be tested now for gonorrhea, chlamydia, HIV, and syphilis (the normal test battery for STDs).??If both of you have negative on all tests, you'll know you could not have infected one another.

If for some reason you are the only one tested, then you can have reliable gonorrhea and chlamydia testing immediately.??(You obviously found some unreliable information about gonorrhea testing.??2-3 days is plenty of time for reliable results.)??HIV and syphilis testing need to wait 6 weeks, and HSV 12-16 weeks.??But I very strongly recommend against HSV testing in this situation.

So my strong advice is that you discuss your concerns with your partner and that both of you be tested for the common STDs.??You can include HSV if you like (your previous question suggests it carries special fears for you) -- but beware of the real possibility you'll learn things about each other that you would be better off leaving unknown.

Best regards--??HHH, MD

Source: http://www.medhelp.org/posts/STDs/Condom-Broke/show/1830552

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