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Dr. Andrew Rynne
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Suggest Treatment For Gonorrhea

Good Afternoon, early last december (2015) I had a blood test and throat swab, and it showed a trace of gonorrhea, I was proscribed a course of antibiotics and that was that, my current partner had a routine blood test last week and we have only had oral sex, and I was concerned something might show up. Or do you need a specific blood test to show the symptoms.
Sat, 27 Feb 2016
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There are two tests, but first, oral sex is a common way to spread STD's (except HIV which is almost zero risk with oral sex and well below the likelihood of lying about needle sharing...so... we can't tell if there is ANY risk with oral sex, but it's low).
The first test isn't a blood test but swabbing areas and seeing if the offending germ grows out from it. Needs to be done on all areas, often/generally is NOT. The second, which is not as good, is a blood test to see if someone has developed an immunity to the STD. Yours should be positive. Forever. Regardless of whether there is any more germ there ever again. Partners.... dunno.
get the swabs. All of them.
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Suggest Treatment For Gonorrhea

There are two tests, but first, oral sex is a common way to spread STD s (except HIV which is almost zero risk with oral sex and well below the likelihood of lying about needle sharing...so... we can t tell if there is ANY risk with oral sex, but it s low). The first test isn t a blood test but swabbing areas and seeing if the offending germ grows out from it. Needs to be done on all areas, often/generally is NOT. The second, which is not as good, is a blood test to see if someone has developed an immunity to the STD. Yours should be positive. Forever. Regardless of whether there is any more germ there ever again. Partners.... dunno. get the swabs. All of them.