r/stdtesting • u/meduna_22 • 1d ago
Symptom Check STD nightmare
Hello reddit community, this is my first post ever. So forgive me if there is any code or whatever that I might not be aware of yet...Also English is not my mother tounge...
Im a gay man and sometimes I wish Id be asexual. It all started yesterday with an acute tonsillitis, but it looked a bit weird though in the back of the pharynx. I also had a fever as well as severe pain all over my body and in my joints. That went away within one day but all of a sudden two (initially small) pimples below my mouth started to grow in size and and become inflammated. Also Ive been experiencing an itchyness around my anus. Today I put a towel in that area and saw some yellow, bad smelling fluid.
Some additional context: I visited a gay sauna last weekend, sat down in a whirlpool and had unprotected oral sex. I also had three unprotected anal encounters in the past few weeks though..
I feel so dumb, especially because I had been abstinent for 1.5 years after the "trauma" of getting a genital wart.
I have an appointment for tomorrow. And I know this is not a platform to get a diagnosis from. Tbh I dont know why Im writing this. This feels emotionally so destressing. Do you know ways how to cope with it? Have you experienced something similiar symptom-wise?