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Well I'm younger and I find STIs to be, well, a huge deal, and I don't understand why some people don't take the proper precautions.
I'd still never want gonorrhea, no matter how easy it is to cure nowadays.
VanillaChocolate: Syphilis used to be a huge deal. Now all you need is penicillin. Back in the day, though, you could go insane if it was left in your system for too long. See Al Capone and the Tuskegee Syphilis Trial. You could also get locomotor ataxia when syphilis traveled to your central nervous system - meaning you had a really weird walk. People who had it looked like they were walking on a bouncy mattress. Very nervous and tentative steps, and they felt off-balance.
You can also get syphilis in your heart. They call it syphilitic aortitis. And syphilis can manifest physically and make you deformed.
This is all rare now that people know what cures it. Tertiary syphilis takes years to develop. It is not common anymore here in the US that people get to that stage. Back in the '30s, it happened a lot.
(I know a lot about syphilis not because I have it but because I did a huge report on it in high school, lol.)
timberline, the HPV vaccine is available and a lot of us do have it, but Gardasil is expensive, so not everyone does.
That's really the thing. Gonorrhea is easy to prevent via condoms. If you're going to NOT use a condom, please do not freak out when your decision has an otherwise entirely preventable consequence.
Well I'm younger and I find STIs to be, well, a huge deal, and I don't understand why some people don't take the proper precautions.
I'd still never want gonorrhea, no matter how easy it is to cure nowadays.
VanillaChocolate: Syphilis used to be a huge deal. Now all you need is penicillin. Back in the day, though, you could go insane if it was left in your system for too long. See Al Capone and the Tuskegee Syphilis Trial. You could also get locomotor ataxia when syphilis traveled to your central nervous system - meaning you had a really weird walk. People who had it looked like they were walking on a bouncy mattress. Very nervous and tentative steps, and they felt off-balance.
You can also get syphilis in your heart. They call it syphilitic aortitis. And syphilis can manifest physically and make you deformed.
This is all rare now that people know what cures it. Tertiary syphilis takes years to develop. It is not common anymore here in the US that people get to that stage. Back in the '30s, it happened a lot.
(I know a lot about syphilis not because I have it but because I did a huge report on it in high school, lol.)
timberline, the HPV vaccine is available and a lot of us do have it, but Gardasil is expensive, so not everyone does.
Nice to know. We had sex ed talks in school. But they never went into huge detail. And being a small rural area HS, some of the info may have been wrong lol I have heard a few wrong things. Or things that weren't the whole truth, or too much detail.
Well I'm younger and I find STIs to be, well, a huge deal, and I don't understand why some people don't take the proper precautions.
I'd still never want gonorrhea, no matter how easy it is to cure nowadays.
VanillaChocolate: Syphilis used to be a huge deal. Now all you need is penicillin. Back in the day, though, you could go insane if it was left in your system for too long. See Al Capone and the Tuskegee Syphilis Trial. You could also get locomotor ataxia when syphilis traveled to your central nervous system - meaning you had a really weird walk. People who had it looked like they were walking on a bouncy mattress. Very nervous and tentative steps, and they felt off-balance.
You can also get syphilis in your heart. They call it syphilitic aortitis. And syphilis can manifest physically and make you deformed.
This is all rare now that people know what cures it. Tertiary syphilis takes years to develop. It is not common anymore here in the US that people get to that stage. Back in the '30s, it happened a lot.
(I know a lot about syphilis not because I have it but because I did a huge report on it in high school, lol.)
timberline, the HPV vaccine is available and a lot of us do have it, but Gardasil is expensive, so not everyone does.
OK, sufficiently scared, now! Ackkk! And we don't know how long penicillin will still be effective, what with antibiotics being overused and losing their effectiveness, these days.
The HPV vaccine only deals with a few of the many strains of HPV. It's not like you get the vaccine, and have nothing to worry about anymore, HPV-wise.
I usually wait around 3 months, get to know the person, find out past relationship history, ask when the last time they had sex was (was it committed relationship, etc), and for STD test results, and still use condoms. Now that doesn't guarantee anything but it does help reduce the risk. Of course there is the risk of the person misrepresenting themselves.
As antibiotic resistance goes, seeing as we are nearing the end of the 'Age of Antibiotics', I hope people will start paying closer attention to safe sex.
Multi-drug resistant gonorrhea already is a pain in the butt to treat, there's a strain of basically incurable gonorrhea out there, multi-drug resistant syphilis and more. People wind up with strains that they spend months trying to treat with a varied assortment of oral and injectable antibiotics.
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Gonorrhea has taken many forms over the last few decades. The strain that people acquire today isn't the same one that previous generations had to deal with. In fact, it might not be the same strain that infected people a little over 10 years ago. That's because gonorrhea, a sexually transmitted disease (STD), has become resistant to most of the antibiotics that we have used to combat it over the last three decades.
TODAY'S GONORRHEA PATIENT HAS FEW OPTIONS LEFT
That's right: penicillin and various tetracyclines have all stopped working against the most prevalent strains. This means that today's gonorrhea patient has very few treatment options left. And with symptoms like burning, swelling of the testicles, vaginal discharge and anal itching, it's not exactly something that you want to leave untreated. Unfortunately, the US Center for Disease Control (CDC) thinks that emerging resistant strains will one day take the last remaining first-line treatment option away — a treatment that currently consists of a cephalosporin injection combined with an oral dose of either azithromycin or doxycycline. The government agency outlined how that scenario could unfold in a study released today.
By analyzing long-term surveillance data for 17 US cities between 1991 and 2006, researchers were able to trace how gonorrhea became resistant to ciprofloxacin, an antibiotic that lost its CDC recommendation in 2007 because studies demonstrated that 13.8 percent of patient samples were resistant to the drug.
The study's results are alarming, but not altogether surprising. The researchers found that increased resistance leads to an increase in gonorrhea cases. That's because being infected with a resistant strain lengthens the amount of time it takes to treat it, giving the infected party more time to pass it on to others.
People who aren't being smart about their sexual partners, who aren't using protection, need to wake the heck up and understand that the days of "hey, just give me a pill doc" are just about over and its time for them to take more responsibility for their actions, practice safe sex and be aware of exactly who they are taking to bed.
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