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[Pigs234]

Does anyone know how many sexual disease are actually out there other than the few the doctors know?

[Alaine1 Administrator]

Hi Pigs234,

The only sexual diseases out there are those identified by researchers, scientists and doctors. On this site we deal specifically with chronic pelvic pain so any sexual disease that caused pelvic pain would be covered but there are sexual diseases out there that don’t cause pelvic pain. It might be worth while looking at nhs choices website or on the website for your local hospital sexual as they provide a lot of information. I hope this help

[Pigs234 in reply to Alaine1]

What I am trying to say is that humanity generates new forms of diseases and I don't feel the doctors know everything, they know of the sexual health diseases that they are aware of. I can't explain what I am dealign with - could be P.I.D but it was picked up in 'that' way. They don't even test for everything when they get the chance to and then after the incubation period for whatever bacteria has warped it's way into your system and germinates they refuse to treat it - even when it does not show up initially but you are 100% aware you have caught something. The usually symptoms are flu and really bad, body shaking or aching flu that knocks you down for 6. That is when you know you have caught something, it may not show in the 'initial' (only) blood tests they do or swobs. There are other diseases out there and before I gross you out - doctors don't know the half of what is out there - they only know for what they are aware of and generally test for. That is it.

Let me try to explain. An African that I did not really know showed me something that was close enough to a nightmare, I could not believe what I saw and I wasn't even aware of how debase and sickening he was (they - not all - are). They do things that would make you think you were in a nightmare seeing this. He flashed his phone and showed me terrible things - so deep I can only imagine no doctor in the UK are AWARE of this. Then people from he UK aren't aware of the things foreign people get up to because it is so far removed that those things belong in horror films.

He showed me awful things and so those are diseases being SPREAD around NOW in the UK. It is not something doctors would be familiar with because they aren't aware these things even happen. That is what I am getting at.

Disease mutate and for what I am aware they do not have the equipment to test for things and there is a thing whereby if blood tests don't show anything (the ones they send you for as a hunch) then you are FINE. That is a problem.

[Alaine1 Administrator in reply to Pigs234]

Diseases do mutate ( but they aren’t behaving quite as aggressively as you describe) as I’m aware from both my undergraduate immunology modules at every level as part of my pharmacology degree and as part of my postgraduate pharmacology training. Simply feeling unwell doesn’t support the idea that you have automatically caught a sexually transmitted disease. It points to the fact that you would have perhaps caught a general viral or bacterial infection which we all do from time to time. Infection doesn’t always require medication from doctors, this is something doctors want to stop patients believing. Most infectious conditions require supportive treatment only - rest, plenty of liquid, paracetamol and a light diet that is easy to support. Chest infection, coughs etc don’t require antibiotics in most cases, the only exceptions would be those in at risk groups - the elderly, asthmatics, those receiving treatment for cancer but even then antibiotics aren’t even prescribed. Doctors don’t know everything but they can’t possibly test for every infection whether of not it’s sexual transmitted. They test based on symptoms and any physical signs of present only as sexually transmitted infections generally all have their own symptoms. Some STIs do have overlapping symptoms which if a doctor was concerned would test for the 2-3 possible STIs rather than the whole range of STIs. The NHS can’t possibly test for everything just because that’s what a patient wants rather than what they need - this would be something you would need to pay for privately as it’s expensive to do this for every patient. You might need to go to speak to your GP or a sexual health professional to learn how protect yourself against infection as this is key for all STIs - prevention is better than cure/treatment.

I also wouldn’t necessarily listen to someone you met whilst travelling as some of these infections could be simple infections that because they don’t always have the same level of access to medical care and the care has to be paid for. If they can’t afford to pay for it then the infection will become worse in some cases . These could have start off as simple skin infections around the genital area which are already on the skin but might have become worse due to feeding and nutrition status or bacteria has been allowed to enter a small cut.

This generally isn’t a group covering STIs as we are a pelvic pain group/charity and not all STIs will cause pelvic pain. I’m not happy with some of the claims you have made as the content isn’t particularly accurate and can worry some people. I hope this helps

[Pigs234 in reply to Alaine1]

According to this website these are the sexual health diseases that are 'currently' known. They only test for 4-5 of the 'common' transmitted diseases and the rest they wait for you to mention to test for such as Hepatitis and such. medinstitute.org/faqs/how-m...

Remember they still research these things because there are millions of diseases they simply don't know of in terms of sexual health ALONE.

Anyhow, this was not intended to be an argument, I was making a point. Pelvic and women's pain could be related to 100 things but sexual health could be one of those things. My legs are trying to stiffen and cease up around my period - the thighs, my ovaries kicks and hurt at this time, I bleed abnormally and my back felt like it cracked open from the bottom of the spine and upwards as soon as I came into contact with that male. I got the worse flu, I got a spinning head and confusion then my ovaries and went into overdrive. The vulva area swelled and became irritated and there was literally no explanation. My body felt weakened and I started getting splitting scar things inside and outside my body.

[Alaine1 Administrator]

I agree but as an admin I do have a responsibility to make sure information presented on here is accurate. There maybe in the future more STI discovered but again there may not be any further STIs discovered. It’s the same with many diseases that are caused by bacteria or viruses. That’s why I went and studied pharmacology as it presented medicine, physiology and pharmacology amongst other topics. There will always be unknowns in life but that’s just the way it is.