Hey all, no throw away account here... just honesty

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So before my LTR, I had a physical after a period of unsafe sex and my doctor told me, "no symptoms? no need for testing...".

Flash forward one year later with my SO. She goes to school overseas and has returns home to me every 3 months or so. Each time she comes home, she develops a bad sore throat. We chalked it up to allergies until we noticed it usually only happened after oral sex. Now, I am always and have always been asymptomatic, even if I am stressed or sick; no lesions, discharge, dysuria, tonsillitis, fever, tenderness, anything!

So this last time I went with her for an STI screen and her blood results came back negative, completely, CMP, CBC, RPR, GC/CT, HIV, mono, all of it.

I got tested last and DING! fucking RPR positive with titer 1:1...

She was treated empirically with Penicillin PO 14 days already (and is improved) but I have yet to follow up with my MD (results came in online this morning).

Should I ask for more testing? FTA-ABS? repeat titer in one month? I'm reading some stuff online about other STI's which could cause False Biological Positives... what the hell do we test for for that? the FTA-ABS?

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I hope this is the place to ask for this kind of advice...

Anyways, moral of the story: ALWAYS GET TESTED, EVEN IF YOUR DOCTOR TELLS YOU IT'S NOT NEEDED.