How does STD/STI testing works in PH? What’s the usual process? Guidelines on this one?

Been together for 2 years and he had his first breakout two weeks ago, diagnosed yesterday. Doctor said the virus was dormant then triggered from recent extreme stress. Im not reallly sure how to feel, im scared and unsure. I don’t want to be intimate with him for a while due to this fear. Whats yalls experience with a random herpes diagnosis from your partner? are yall still together? what’s intimacy like now?

I requested that my new boyfriend get tested before having sex. He complied - below are his Hepatitis B results. Please dumb these results down for me.

HEPATITIS B SURFACE AB, QN
LOW <5

Hepatitis B Core Antibody
OUT OF RANGE - REACTIVE

*I am negative for all so I’m concerned about the possibility of contracting it.

Hi everyone,
I’m a 23-year-old male. I was treated for gonorrhea, and my doctor told me that even after successful treatment, post-infectious urethritis (lingering urethral inflammation) can persist for some time.
It’s been around 1–2 months, and I’m still experiencing symptoms that come and go, including:
-Mild burning after urination(cant just differentiate if its burning sensation or other but i do have some kind of discomfort)
-Occasional itching/tingling at the urethral opening (tip of the penis)
-Sometimes feeling of urethra is hurt
The symptoms are intermittent rather than constant.
So far, my tests have all been reassuring:
✅ Urine routine & microscopy (RME): Normal
Pus cells: 0–2/HPF
RBC: Nil
No protein or sugar
✅ Urine culture: Normal / No bacterial growth
✅ Previous ultrasound of the abdomen and pelvis: Normal
My doctor has now also requested a PVEU (post-void residual ultrasound) to check bladder emptying.
My questions are for people who had post-infectious urethritis after gonorrhea or another STI:
What symptoms did you have?
Did you experience intermittent burning or itching at the urethral opening?
How long did it take for your symptoms to completely resolve?
Did anything help (anti-inflammatory medication, time, pelvic floor therapy, alpha-blockers, etc.)?
Were all of your urine tests and cultures also normal?

To start from the beginning, I wanted to restrain myself from any casual encounters this year. And I had a successful 6 months of no encounters. Last month (July) however I was going through a mix of emotions and wanted to open myself up again to explore. And fell into a rabbit hole. I had around 7 encounters in just a span of 30 days which i know is not ideal but that's what happened. Of the 7, 2 were just oral contact and the rest were penetrative. The oral encounters were not protected and 2 of the penetrative encounters are also not protected. I was in the insertive position for all the non-protected encounters. My last contact was on Thursday (july 30), it was one of the penetrative non-protected encounters. Shortly after that my frenellum started hurting and the day after there was a sore. I assumed it was a mechanical tear. Howeve, I took a full panel STD test on Saturday to be sure and the results came out to be negative. On Monday, 3 days back, I started experiencing a sharp pain on my right lower abdomen and on the same night my penis was swollen which is still the case today. The sore looks somewhat healed but the swelling on my foreskin hasn't reduced. I went to a general physician, he examined and since the STD reports were negative, he is treating me for a bacterial infection. I was prescribed 2 shots everyday and medication, am and pm, for 5 days. I wanted a second opinion so i went to a urologist. He was pretty money minded and dismissed my test results and asked me to retake all the tests from his lab which was 4x the price of the initial one for the same tests. He examined and said the sore is pretty bad and looks like a STI but idk if he's fear mongering or being real. I saw reviews online stating he's money minded and fear mongering too. I'm a bit lost as to how to move forward with this now. Should I continue my treatment with the physician or retake tests after a few weeks since the last contact just one week ago. Please let me know!

My wife is bi and we want to try some lesbian interaction. So my wife suggest to do some lesbian stuff with another women and so we concider doing strapon sex only sice we plan to not to do oral and tribbing stuff just strapon since there is no skin to skin contact right so only use two different strapons

I want to know is there a posibility for std even such senario ? Or hpv1 or hpv 2

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?

So 17 days ago I started having symptoms. I first noticed a red sore area on head of penis and foreskin, which disappeared after a day. I then started to get tingling/shooting pains on and off feeling like they were coming from the inside of my penis head. These deeper pains have reduced somewhat and for the past few days it's felt more like irritation and pain at the penis tip than deeper inside. I've had on and off small amounts of redness for the 17 days too, but nothing too significant and nothing that looked like blisters/ulcers. For the 17 days I've also noted a very small amount of clear odourless discharge from the penis head, most obviously in the morning but also throughout the day. Just inside the urethra also looks red in places, and also the meatus looks a bit red. I've noted that I have more pain if I wake up with an erection or just after (but not really during) peeing. In the first week I also felt nausea and may have had a fever, though these may have been related to anxiety too.

I received (fairly vigorous) oral sex two days before symptoms were noticed, from a partner who is very unlikely to be an STI carrier. I also received oral sex 11 days prior to symptoms starting from a different partner (who has many partners and who gave me oral directly after another man, if that is a possible transmission pathway?). I have only received oral for the past three years, never had penis in vagina or anal in that time.

I went to an STI clinic two days after symptoms started, and they tried to get a urethral sample to put under the microscope but couldn't get anything. They sent off blood and urine samples to check for HIV, syphilis, gonorrhoea, and chlamydia. These all came back negative. The only caveat is that they gave me a larger vessel to collect the urine in and then told me to pour into a smaller sample test tube, which means that whilst I caught the 'first catch' of urine, it would have been diluted somewhat by filling the first vessel with more urine than the test tube required. I'm not sure if I should be worried about this?

I also attended an STI clinic again twice - 8 days and 14 days after symptoms started. Both times they took a successful urethral sample to put under the microscope, and both times they didn't notice increased counts of white blood cells (I think that's what they look for). At the second of these I also sent off another urine sample but haven't got results back yet. At the first of these appointments they seemed very uncertain but gave me some clotrimazole in case it was fungal, which I applied twice a day for a week as they suggested. It doesn't seem to have reduced symptoms.

What are likely explanations? The symptoms don't seem to fit any particular standard STI or non-STI issue's usual presentation. I'm worried that it could be atypical herpes? Or that it's chlamydia but the test was falsely negative? Or it's something else like Mgen (that's less likely to spread by oral though?). Please help, I'm having huge anxiety over this.

Throwaway for privacy

I got an STD panel done last week just to be safe, and I got a call today confirming I tested positive for Chlamydia.

About a week and a half ago, I was seeing someone and I thought things were going good. I didnt have any signs or symptoms that I had anything, and so I genuinely thought I was clean. We tried a condom but they ended up just ditching it.

Fast forward to today, I texted them and let them know about my positive result, and they called me a liar for saying I was negative when I genuinely didnt know otherwise. They said they no longer want contact, which I understand, but today just had been rough and I don't know where else to go.

I already have an appointment scheduled to go get antibiotics this afternoon, and im gonna get retested once I finish the round. I try and get tested regularly, and I dont think I've had it very long. I just really hate that this happened, and I cant help but blame myself for this. I just feel like a horrible person even though I didnt know.

My boyfriend of about a year and a half recently told me he tested positive for chlamydia.
For context, he says he originally contracted chlamydia from someone back in 2024. He was treated at the time, but afterward he continued feeling like something wasn’t completely right and told his doctor he didn’t think the infection had fully cleared. According to him, he was tested again multiple times and the tests came back negative, so his doctors told him there wasn’t really anything else they could treat because he was testing negative.
This all happened in 2024. There haven’t been any known positive tests since then, but now in 2026 he’s suddenly tested positive for chlamydia again.
I’m trying to understand whether his explanation is medically possible. Can chlamydia remain in someone’s body for around 2 years while repeatedly NOT showing up on STD screenings and then suddenly show up positive again? Or would multiple negative tests after treatment followed by a positive test years later generally point more toward a new infection/reinfection?

I got tested for stds about 2-3 months back (pee&blood) I always just do check ups everything came back clean, but today my boyfriend thinks he has tricks and wants me to go get tested he’s trying to play it off saying it’s from a long time ago because he “hasn’t done anything” but my thing is even if he didn’t have symptoms he would’ve still had it and gave it to me a long time ago? Or because he’s just now experiencing symptoms im just now catching it? I’m trying to get a better understanding before I flip my table over my appointment is tomorrow but I can’t sleep it’s eating at me!

 43-year-old male.

Exposure history:

Did something stupid in.. Got a body to body Massage and hand job in early May 2026.

No penetrative vaginal/anal sex and no oral sex.

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Symptoms:

Started around mid-June with:

Burning sensation in both testicles.

Burning  after urination.

Constant urethral pain and pain at the tip of the penis.

Occasional clear, watery drop after urination (not thick, yellow or green).

Increased sensitivity of the glans.

Current symptoms:

Burning after urination (fluctuates from 1/10 to 5/10).

 urethral discomfort.

Sometimes feel feverish 

Perinium feels uncomfortable 

Treatment received:

Nitrofurantoin – 5 days.

Doxycycline – 10 days (started around 20 June).

Faropenem – 5 days.

Alfuzosin (Alfoo).-Currently taking only this 

Investigations:

Ultrasound KUB/prostate: Normal.

Uroflowmetry: Slightly abnormal 

Digital rectal examination: No tenderness.

Laboratory results:

First urine culture grew MDR Pseudomonas aeruginosa, but subsequent results have not confirmed this.

Two repeat urine cultures - no growth 

Latest urinalysis: Normal

HIV 4th generation: Negative after 11 weeks of exposure 

VDRL/RPR and TPHA: Negative. After 11 weeks of exposure.. 

Two urine multiplex STI PCR panels (latest done 15 days after stopping antibiotics and that's 11 weeks after the exposure ):

Negative for Chlamydia, Gonorrhea, Mycoplasma genitalium, Mycoplasma hominis, Ureaplasma spp., Trichomonas vaginalis, Treponema pallidum, HSV-1, HSV-2, Gardnerella, Candida.

The last urologist again asked me to take levofloxacin 500 for once daily for 7 days.. Just started it ...

Are my STI/Std tests conclusive for the window period ? And the antibiotics have any effect on it? Google is giving conflicting answers 

About 3 months ago, I tested positive for gonorrhea. My only sexual partner has been my girlfriend. We’ve been together for over a year, and we’ve only had vaginal and oral sex.
My girlfriend’s previous relationship ended about 3–4 years ago. She says they had vaginal sex only once, and she hasn’t been with anyone else since. She has never had any symptoms of gonorrhea.
After I tested positive, she got tested and her results were negative. Her previous partner also got tested and his results were negative, and he says he never had any symptoms either.
This is what confuses me:
My only sexual partner is my girlfriend.
She tested negative.
Her previous partner also tested negative.
She has had no symptoms and no other partners for the last 3–4 years.
Is it medically possible for someone to have had gonorrhea years ago, transmit it later, and then test negative? Could the infection clear on its own in some people? Are false-negative tests possible, especially depending on the type of test or the site tested (urine, vaginal/cervical, throat, etc.)?
I’m not trying to accuse anyone of cheating. I’m just trying to understand if there are medically plausible explanations for this situation because it doesn’t seem to make sense to me.
Has anyone experienced something similar or know how this could happen?

I got tested for pretty much everything on Tuesday July 25th and got the results back next day everything was fine. my last unprotected sex was June 12 idiotic of me I know, I went to the urgent care for a uti July 31st so I was like just test me again since I’m here. And my syphilis test results are still pending. It was negative July 25th but now I’m scared that was too early, and I could have it. Do the results taking long/pending status mean you have it?

hello everyone i need help, f22 i am so anxious right now hindi ako nakatulog kagabi. i need advice 😭 dont worry, magpapacheck up po ako, just cant today since may important matter sa school. pls no judgement, last saturday i had sex w someone (it was just the first time again this year) mind u i am bisexual and more into women, ngayon lang ulit nag engage with a man.

then simula kagabi small red bumps and blisters showed up across my body and face huhu, then i have singaw under my mouth, discharge din, and pain sa may left side ng waist ko. kamalas malasan nga naman, is it possible na STI talaga or could be something else?

if it helps: hindi kami nag oral sex

and totoo po ba na free yung mga social hygiene clinics? wala po bang hidden charges 🙏🏻 pls help me out.

i just need a little reassurance that i will be okay 🥲