Hi guys, I'm new here and feel that there is a little...something wrong. I don't think this really belongs in the STD, but don't know where else to put it...so...
For a while now, i've had this little...lets call it a rash for lack of a better word...there are about 4 little red dots, splotches, areas, whatever you want to call them along the area where the head of my penis connects to the shaft. They started to appear when i began masturbating, and i thought they were little areas that i had rubbed dry and thought nothing more of it...then when they didn't go away, i did the dumb thing and ignored them, hoping they would go away at some point. They haven't. I have done some research, and part of me thinks it's a yeast infection part of me doesn't. I am not itchy, burny, anything, i am feeling nothing there, or anywhere down there because of it, all i know is that there are a few little red things and they could not be there for all i knew. I am trying to figure out what this may be because i may have oral sex with somebody this weekend (possibly), and don't want to give something that I didn't know i really had.
I've tried putting lotramin on it (i was advised to do so by somebody I know) to no avail, i wrote it off as using stuff that had recently expired (a month or 2, but it was brand new), so i went and got new stuff just about a week ago, started using it, also to no avail. The only reason I feel that I may have one is because of the "spit test" where you spit into a glass of water early in the morning, and if the saliva breaks into strands and floats around, then you have one...supposedly. Does anybody have any insight, or any help that may or may not tell me if I have a yeast infection?
thank you in advance
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Yeast Infection?
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Welcome to A2A, XSVpwns.That 'spit test' is new to me, and I'm sure it's bogus, because yeast infections are usually local things and wouldn't cause effects in your saliva.The simplest way to test if something is a yeast infection is to try an antifungal on it. You've done this with no effect, so either this is something else, perhaps a bacterial infection, or a yeast that is resistant to clotrimazole (unlikely but possible).You could try a combined fungicide/antibacterial.
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Are you intact or circumcised?If you are circumcised, I doubt you would have a yeast infection.
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I am circumsized, and i saw things that talked about how it is very hard for somebody who is cirumsized to get one. Any ideas what this may be?would it advised to hold off on oral sex until I know for sure what it is? or do you guys think, from what I have told, that it is safe? what about a hand-job?
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I suppose the question is, could it be something like herpes? In that case oral would be inadvisable, though a handjob should be fine.Most likely it's nothing dangerous, but I don't know that we can tell from here.
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It doesn't seem that it could be herpes, just because isn't herpes spread through sexual contact? I have never had sexual contact with anyone so I ruled that out, plus those are there, and no where else that I have seen.
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Yes, if you've had no sexual contact it does seem unlikely.
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do you think there would be any other way of knowing that I have a yeast infection besides what I have already outlined here?
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Cultures are possible, but only used in unusually resistant cases.
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That site thinks most people are suffering from systemic fungal infections, rather than superficial ones. The front page suggests that "Yeast infection and fungal disease do not suffer from a shortage of scientific knowledge, but strangely, the twentieth century has very little knowledge of them" and the author believes he has special knowledge that most doctors don't have. He also thinks "laboratory technicians can't tell the difference between fungus spores and cells..." which is of course nonsense.In other words, it's a nutter site.