According to standard recommendations, he should have been treated anyway. As for your other partner, with both no symptoms plus negative tes, it svirtually impossible that he caught it from you. That you didn't have symptoms at the time makes no difference, since more than 90% of pharyngeal gonorrhea cases are entirely asymptomatic. If his sexual history is accurate, then that's the best bet. Certainly the timing is right for you as the source of one partner's gonorrhea. It's always a judgment call, and often a difficult one, to figure out who transmitted an STD to whom, and when it happened. You could be tested a week or so after you finish the drug, to be sure that it is gone (if you had it at all). There is no point in you being tested while taking augmentin. The asymptomatic person can be sure he doesn't have it. Asymptomatic urethral gonorrhea is uncommon in men, and testing is reliable. Augmentin has not been studied for its effect against pharyngeal gonorrhea, but in the doses used for strep throat and respiratory infections, it probably would cure it. Augmentin is active against even the resistant strains. Most gonorrhea responds to the penicillin-class drugs, including amoxicillin, especially in the doses you had. I'm more concerned that you could have caught it from the partner who developed gonorrhea symptoms, not the other way around. However, pharyngeal gonorrhea is less easily transmitted than genital or rectal gonorrhea. You might have been the source of his infection. Timing of symptoms hasn't been studied well, but when symptoms occur, probably they usually start within few days. A cold is a more likely explanation of your symptoms than gonorrhea. When it does, sore throat is the main one stuffy nose is not. To the specific questions: Most pharyngeal gonorrhea causes no symptoms at all. In view of your antibiotic treatment, most likely you'll know. You may or may not have had pharyngeal gonorrhea, which you could have acquired from the guy who developed gonorrhea symptoms a few days after your exposure. "Oral" gonorrhea is actually infection of the pharynx (throat), not the mouth itself. So my questions: Typically what are the symptoms of oral gonorrhea? If someone were to develop oral gonorrhea, how quickly would those symptoms (typically) manifest? Could my sore throat one month ago be oral gonorrhea and resistant to the antibiotics? Could I have passed it to the guy who developed symptoms, even though one month prior I had undergone such a strong course of amoxicillin? Are these bugs resistant to amoxicillin? If the guy who is asymptomatic hasn't developed symptoms at this point, and has been tested negative, how likely is it that he may have gonorrhea, assuming I was the initial carrier? Now that I'm taking the Augmentin, would it be advisable that I get tested? I was informed by the guy who developed gonorrhea of all this yesterday, 4/14, and have not had sex with him since before his symptoms began. I had oral sex again with the asymptomatic guy again on 4/11. Because I had been previously diagnosed (and treated with 1000mg Amoxicillin three times daily) with a sinus and left ear infection about a month earlier he suspected that I could possibly have some type of resistant sinusitus and prescribed Augmentin XR (1000 mg) 2 pills twice a day. He said he could see that I had some drainage but nothing looked especially irritated. Doctor looked and wasn't certain that I had any type of infection. I finally got tired of the stuffy nose (sore throat had subsided) on 4/9 and went to the doctor. He had a physical with a complete STD screen on 4/8 that was negative for any std's. A few days later, and feeling better, I had oral sex again with the asymptomatic guy on 4/6. The sore throat lasted about a week, but the stuffy nose never went away. About that same time (3/25) I developed a mild sore throat and very stuffy nose. One of them developed symptoms of a gonorrhea infection on about 3/30. Ok.here's the situation, I had oral sex with two guys, on different days about 3/25.
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