Like, now I find out I have syphilis???

Why do you have to tell your family? I mean, yeah you'll need to tell them you have dementia, but you absolutely don't have to tell them it's because of untreated syphilis.

Best of luck to you. I hope you can get mitigating treatment.

Have you taken a test?

No, but is the damage reversible if the infection is treated? Good luck with your treatment. You don't need to tell your family.

OP, it went to your brain. Regardless, you have a very real brain condition. That’s what syphilis does.

[quote]No, but is the damage reversible if the infection is treated?

No.

The damage is irreversible. But it can be stopped in its tracks when treated. That's the plan.

My dad’s best friend got syphilis from a hooker in Vietnam. Apparently, he died from it (according to my mother). My dad always acted like he died in active duty.

[quote]How am I going to tell my family this?

Oh god. Now I know you're fabricating all of this.

If you feel like you need to tell your family can't you tell them it's from a head injury? Or that your physicians don't know what caused it?

No, I am not!!!!!!!

Meant for R8.

Don't worry about telling your family. Especially if the damage is irreversible. Continue your treatment plan with your doctor and concentrate on getting the care you need now. When you start thinking about power of attorney, that person might be the person to inform of your medical condition, only because it helps them make the right decision based on your circumstances and wishes. But it's not something anyone else needs to be aware of. It doesn't change anything.

I think you would not have to tell your family the reasons behind your illness if you don't want to. Then again is there any Shane in having syphilis? I don't think so but maybe others do. Get it treated and get on with life.

[quote]I feel guilty and dirty.

As you should, you dirty whore.

So it laid dormant for 20 years?

Many a vet in WW2 had the same story. Hudson River State Hospital in Poughkeepsie NY had a special building for those poor old demented guys. If you were on antibiotic it treated the acute stage, the soreness & rash. 2nd stage very symptom free, 3rd stage what you are now experiencing. Syphilis is sneaky. You have to keep getting tested & retreated if & when it comes back.

You sound like a pearl clutching prisspot

Tell them nothing. You just have dementia. I've always said that if I get anal cancer from HPV from anal sex- I'm telling my family I have prostate cancer.

You can still have a long and productive life, and share your talents with the world.

Are you Vladimir Lenin?

Meh. Run for POTUS.

I've had STIs before, but I also get regular checkups. 20 years to find this out???

Minor problem with your story OP .......... syphilis is a BACTERIAL infection, not a VIRAL infection, as you stated in your OP...........if you had REALLY been through this with your doctor, he would have made this clear to you.........and you would have known not to make that slip-up

Reminds me of a story. I live in Australia. My best friend is a phlebotomist. A lady had been treated for chlamydia and was having a further test to see if she was clear of it. Koala bears are prone to chlamydia. Now, this lady my friend was treating was rather proper and conservative, about 55. She told my friend that she must have gotten the chlamydia from a koala she petted! We still laugh about it, those koala bears dropping from trees to rape unsuspecting prudes.

Wonder how many posters are thinking, damn should I get a test. I also think a good many males have clamydia since it is supposed to be a silent infection.

R23-

There's an ignore button right at the top of the thread if you care not to participate.

OP doesn't get the clap, he gets applause!

R25 - Not I! I'm not a WHORE like you.

I don't have syphilish, I'm just shwell!

OP I'm very sorry this happened to you

This is a lesson to everyone that you must have yearly STI testing. For those who do not have health insurance, there are many free clinics catering to gay men who will do the testing.

Once a year, get tested for STI

r26 science never lies

I can't get STI's, I'm on Prep!

[quote]My dad’s best friend got syphilis from a hooker in Vietnam.

Al Capone contracted syphilis from a prostitute at a brothel in Chicago.

I'm sorry you're going thru this, OP, good luck to you.

Syphilis? OP are you a time traveler from the past?

Yes OP, after a rash , I was diagnosed with syphilis. It was a complete surprise, I never did anal unprotected, and I didn't even know you could contract the syph by Giving a BJ. (I don't like oral on my dick, but I like to suck a dick. ) But it happened. The rash comes between the second and third year. I was treated with three shots, I have to go through a check every year now .

I don't want your stuff OP

A friend’s elderly brother was diagnosed with latent syphilis at the age of seventy two! He never had any symptoms, he was treated with three cycles of antibiotics and is hale and hearty at nearly eighty!

There is definitely Shane involved!

R15 - oh, dear!

Lie, lying, lay, have lain.

Long term syphilis is very rare nowadays because almost any antibiotic, taken for any reason, would have killed it.

R21, it worked for Biden...

A 62 year old should know better than to start a sentence with "like".

[quote] Like, now I find out I have syphilis???

Make sure they test for Hepatitis C. It can lie dormant for decades, too. Sorry, OP. I hope the damage is reversible. At least they finally caught it.

Don't be a drip and tell them you have the drip, OP.

You are a whore OP. Face facts!

Whore!

Is there a special test for tertiary syphilis or does it test like fresh infected syph?

R43 Like, what do I do? 🤡

Have you tried painting your gums with mercury?

Look on the bright side, at least your nose didn’t fall off.

Like, now a warning?

A paper just delivered at a major conference in Atlanta.

A cluster of syphilis cases in Chicago with disturbing symptoms. It’s called NOO syphilis

Neurosyphilis, vision issues, headaches, hearing loss, dizziness, personality changes, altered mental state

2/3 of the pts dd not have typical early syphilis symptoms like an initial lesion or rash

1/3 of the pts were HIV+

Apparently in the old days (75-100 years ago) this could kill someone quickly - I had several people in my family tree basically go into dementia and then die due to untreated syph.

^^^^^^

Yep, before the 1930s syphilis killed millions of people, because the disease had no cure and when the tertiary phase came it could easily cause liver failure.

[quote]A cluster of syphilis cases in Chicago with disturbing symptoms. It’s called NOO syphilis

R54

Syphilis could and does lead to neurosyphilis or brain issues. That we always saw as an old persons issue. Not an22 year olds issue.

Deaths yes but I have never heard of syphilis killing anyone “quickly”. Not 100 years ago not 200.

But early neurosyphilis , the eye syphilis, like those that are being found in Chicago now these can happen in a few months maybe weeks.

Quickly or not it’s still a very serious and deadly disease

GET TESTED REGULARLY

I will say that if you told anyone working in a syphilis clinic in 1970 that a large number of pts under the age of 30 would be developing neurosyphilis, having significant vision loss from syphilis of the eye, having personality changes, after a few months or weeks of being infected they would have thought you an absolute loon.

No one would have believed that

There you were in Rio

And you didn't even see-o

The sore when you'd pee-o

It was fiesta, and you got the 👏!👏!👏!👏!

Is it possible this cluster was immunocompromised with similar underlying problem(s)?

Scary.

R61

The first thing I thought of was HIV but only 1/3 in this Chicago cluster were HIV pos.

The same sort of strangeness happened in Michigan (ok not far from Chicago) where one infected man gave syphilis of the eye to as I remember to 5 different woman. And none of those woman had other underlying conditions and none had hiv.

The man was not a good interview and the woman all named him when they developed eye related problem's and were found with syphilis. , He was not cooperative as far as an interview.

There could be any number of cases related to this man we will not know about.

I hope the OP is doing well.

The OP is the Timmy troll now

You never happened to take an antibiotic for anything else in that time? That would have knocked it out.

A friend picked it up from a whore in PVR. Said the shots were more painful than passing a kidney stone.

To be clear there are very limited and specific treatments for syphilis. Those left over antibiotic pills from that sore throat from last year is not going to cure your syphilis.

R66

Bicillin is the first line treatment and yes it hurts.

"Men can take doxycycline to cure their infections. But, doxycycline is a pill that has to be taken twice a day for several weeks to be effective, and some people don’t finish the full course, which may allow their infection to smolder and get worse."

I am sorry for the news. With all due respect, OP, it doesn't seem that you were properly investigating your own health as a gay man. An awful lot of gay men have full blood workup at least once a year. And nowadays, anyone on Prep has it more often. It even sounds like you never had an HIV test until now, or hadn't had one in decades? I mean -what the fuck. I agree your doctor should have been proposing a full panel of blood work every year - does your doctor know you are gay?

I dunno.

Good luck. But don't lay all the blame on doctors. IMO.

OP, I just hope you're not married to Cloris Leachman.

(If you've never seen this before, this is a DL classic--from a 70s TV movie about syphilis called "Someone I Touched.")

I can solve all your problems, OP. Meet me by the gravel pits.

I checked my prior test results and I don't have a test for syphilis. I'll ask my doctor for one.

OP, I'm sure your mind is all over the place, try to come to peace about the news, have conversations that you always wanted and enjoy each moment (don't fear/worry about the future as that will take away from the special moments of today).

The OP is from a year and a half ago. I wonder if he still posts here.

^ look at you being an investigator....

Is he dead yet? Did he ever bother to look at the bottom of his feet for the telltale signs of syphilis? Did he think he had the measles or something? One shot and he’d be fine.

A riveting observation, r74. Do you have more?

R53. The same old sex pest troll is back—-fuck off…Stab yourself on the eye, and get syphilis.

[quote]r13 Then again is there any Shane in having syphilis?

If you’re lucky there is.

Ever gay man should be tested for syphilis regularly. M y partner caught it 20 years ago but was diagnosed early during a routine gay health check.

^ or so you were told....

It’s not a big deal—if you get, get the jab. Get your bloodwork checked periodically. You’re good.

There is nothing shameful about catching syphilis. It happens. And it is relatively easy to overlook.

If you gobble the dick you need to check.

OP, tell Rumer, "Chin-up, girl".

1 shot 2 shots 3 shots and you are done?

You all ahould do a search “ CDC recommendations for treatment of neurosyphilis “ or “ UK recommendations for treatment of neurosyphilis “ you can also see it for China and Europe. It’s all slightly different.

Different kinds of penicillin and some IV and some IM what they all have in common is 10-14 days or so of treatment throughout the day. Neurosyphilis involvement means different treatment recommendations. And the recommendation is not 1 or 2 or 3 shots.

It’s your health you should all do your own search and not take anyone’s word.

I don’t know how doctors are treating it but I know what the official recommendations are.

Stop with your neuro bullshit. I’ve had stage 1 and stage 2 at different times…the jab works. Blood work to track your titter, and go on with your life.

Titer not titter ;)

Jesus Christ this loser again posting as if people are at great risk from syphilis. With his bullshit scaremongering about neurosyphilis (rare, non spontaneous and only affects someone that literally doesn't go to a doctor for 10 years), and syphilis of the eye, which is so exceedingly rare that you could count the total number of cases in the US per year using your fingers and toes.

R85 you've been made a fool of in every single thread that you've tried this bullshit already, how are you not so embarrassed that you keep coming back. Get a fucking life.

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And R89?

R89

And the story continued in 2024

Poor OP will be dead by now.

I mean, he's as good as, R92, but he's got two families to provide for so we're proppin' him up as long as he can stand.

R92

According to someone above in this thread the OP is still posting threads,

It’s odd how these clusters seem to pop up then seem to disappear,

this current chicago cluster of neurosyphilis the article above , the one recently in Michigan with the neuro eye syphilis, the deadly local meningitis outbreaks that pop up now and then, including a few years ago in Chicago, another in Canada, strike down a few men , kill a few before they get to the hospital, then seem to just go away.

Good Luck to All

Except Bicillin remains in shortage.

I just got one R25 (negative thankfully), strictly because of this thread.

My syphilis screening came back negative yesterday

This means I’m in the clear for three months

NO LOADS REFUSED

Is your name Oswald Alving by any chance?