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Can I get STD if I deep kiss and sucking breast of a massage girl?I use condoms for vaginal and anal sex and do not use condoms for receiving oral sex.

Hi and thank you for your question. Using condoms for vaginal and anal sex are a great way to lower your chances of getting a STD. The trick with condoms is that they have to be used from start to finish of the sexual encounter, and they have to be put on correctly. Also, condoms only protect the parts that are covered. That means, infections that are transmitted skin to skin are still possible... Read Full Answer

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I just had protected vaginal intercourse for 30 seconds about a month ago and I didn't have much skin to skin contact. It's been a month and I haven't had any symptoms. What are my chances of getting genital herpes or syphilis?

Using a condom during sex is a great way to protect yourself from STIs. You are right however that with skin to skin contact there is always a risk of getting infections that are transmitted this way. Getting genital herpes or syphilis is often more complicated than just having direct skin to skin contact as it involves many different factors like at what stage of the infection the... Read Full Answer

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I am really stressed if I have an std or not but I don't have any symptoms. I had oral and vaginal sex with condom on at all times. I can't seem to control these thoughts and do sti testing places charge fees for testing. Is it anonymous?

Thank you for your question. Using a condom is definitely a great way to protect yourself from getting an STI; especially if it was used for both oral and vaginal sex. If you are sexually active, it's a really great idea to go and get tested regularly for STIs as most people who have an STI have no symptoms. If you are writing from within Canada, testing for STIs is free of charge.... Read Full Answer

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I’ve have oral gonorrhea I’ve had it for over a year but i wasn’t sure what it was and was to embarrassed to talk about it my throat is really bothering me and is swollen can my symptoms be reversed?

Hi there,Thanks for writing.Gonorrhea is curable with antibiotics. Did you get treatment for it? You should have been given treatment from the place where you got your gonorrhea test. If you have not returned to pick-up the medication since getting your results, then I would recommend going to get the treatment.The antibiotics are very easy to take, and the infection will be gone in seven days... Read Full Answer

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i broke out in red bumps, sores down there like last year. I went to go get it check out and the nurse said it might've been herpes. i got soo scared and depressed. Before i left she said "it might or it might be not.. " Then the results came back, they only told me i had chlamydia and gohnorrhea, but said nothing about the herpes? Can those stis cause sores having it at the same time? Its been 2 years since those sores broke out, ive never had the same thing since.

Hi,Thanks for your question.Were you tested for herpes at the time you tested positive for chlamydia and gonorrhea? Because they should have done a swab on your genital sores, and if they had a positive result from the swab they would have told you. It's very likely that it wasn't herpes.As far as your past symptoms of the sores... we don't usually think of sores associated with chlamydia... Read Full Answer

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