29/10/2025
🚨 If you’ve had unprotected së x recently, read this carefully!
Some silent infections don’t show up immediately The warning signs might appear anywhere from 3 days to 3 months later.
Knowing what to look for could save your life or your partner’s.
👇Read this post to learn the signs, and share it someone on your timeline might need this RIGHT NOW.
If you are së xually active,you are at risk of contracting s*xually transmitted infections.
-It is possible for someone with an STI to not show any symptoms and still pass it on to their partner.
While it's important to practice safe s éx,it is not a foolproof guarantee against STIs.
📌 Below are symptoms commonly seen in men and women who have contracted STIs.
STI symptoms in females
- Burning sensation with urination ( chlamydia, Gonorrhea, and trichomoniasis) can be the root cause.
However burning without urination might be urinary tract infection.
📌 -Unusual vaginal discharge
When you're ovulating, discharge usually appears clear.
Before your period starts, discharge may behave a yellow tinge and be thick.
-However, discharge with itching, redness, swelling, pelvic pain, or bad smell. (likely trich,chlamydia or Gonorrhea)
📌 -Abnormal vaginal bleeding
Bleeding when it is not that time of the month or after s êx could be alarming and might be an STI( HPV could affect the cervix,which can cause bleeding after s*x).
-Sometimes bleeding accompanied with pain from an STI tends to be described as spotting.
📌-Vaginal pain during s èx
Herpes can lead to painful in*******se.
-Lesions in your vaginá and cervix can cause those lesions to become irritated and inflamed.
In some cases, ge***al warts can be flat or bumpy and look like cauliflower. Also, itchy and uncomfortable 😫.
📌 - Pelvic pain( chlamydia and Gonorrhea increase your risk of pelvic inflammatory disease if untreated).
-Timing of STI symptoms
Chlamydia: Symptoms can show up several weeks after infection.
Gonorrhea: symptoms may develop between 1- 14 days after infection.
Herpes: 2-12 days
📌HIV/AIDS: Men and women Don't have symptoms after s èx.
-However, if you know the status thereafter go for PEP treatment.
Symptoms vary from;
- intermittent fever
- Malaise
- unexplained weight loss
- Upper respiratory infections
- Oral thrush
- Rashes On the body.
📌Signs and Symptoms of STIs in males
Chlamydia 3-5days
●Discharge from prek
●Pain when urinating
●Burning or itching around the opening of prek
●Pain and swelling in 1 or both testicle
●Fever
Herpes 2-12days
●painful blisters on ge***als,rectum, buttocks, thighs&mouth
● Tingling, itching or burning sensations around blisters
●Fever
●Loss of appetite
N.B: There is no cure for herpes and outbreaks of symptoms can reoccur overtime despite treating symptoms. Also, can lead to cervical cancers.
Gonorrhea 1-14days
●Painful urination
●Fever
●Painful bowel movement
● itching and soreness of a**s
● white, yellow or gray pe**le discharge
N.B abuse of antibiotics can lead to resistant Gonorrhea which is difficult to treat.
📌 Syphilis 10-90days
Commoner with Men who have sè x with men and s*x workers.
●Fatigue
● Sores on prek, a**s, mouth or lips, fingers and buttocks.
●Sorethroat
●Hair loss
●blindness
●meningitis
● Stroke
●Dementia
HPV- It typically affects teens and early 20's . Males with HPV may never develop symptoms or develop symptoms in months or even years.
📌Hepatitis B Tends to appear after 90 days.
●fever
●Abdominal pain
●Nausea and vomiting
●Yellow sclera(jaundice)
●Loss of appetite
●General weakness.
N.B. Everyone should receive Hep B vaccination except those who have a yeast allergy.
~ Doctor Umoren
