The Signs & Symptoms of STI
Many STDs can infect you and yet show no symptoms. Or they may stay in your body for months to years before they show any symptoms.
You cannot determine that your partner has no STDs just because he also has no symptoms. If you have been infected with an STD and show no symptoms you can still pass it on to your partner.
This is the commonest STD in Singapore. Unfortunately, 40% to 60% of people do not show any symptoms. Even when symptoms do appear, they are often mild and disappear quickly. The common symptoms are pain passing urine, discharge from the penis or anus.
The symptoms can occur as early as 2 days after exposure but in some people it might take months to show symptoms. In 10% of people there are no symptoms at all. The common symptoms are pain passing urine and a discharge from the penis or anus.
It very commonly causes no symptoms at all. The common symptoms are mild discomfort passing urine or a mild discharge.
It can infect a person for years without showing any symptoms. Sometimes the symptoms are so mild they go unnoticed. For people who do get symptoms, the first time is the worst.
The common symptoms are painful blisters that burst to form painful ulcers. This is usually preceded by a flu-like illness, itching, tingling and pain in the genital area. The first episode is usually very painful and can last up to 3 weeks without treatment.
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Some people never develop any symptoms. Or the symptoms are so mild that they go unnoticed. The common symptoms are nausea, loss of appetite, fever, itching, yellowing of the skin or eyes. Smokers sometimes lose their urge to smoke.
Its symptoms can be so mild that they go unnoticed.
The first sign occurs between 9 to 90 days after exposure. It is a painless ulcer where the Syphilis entered the body. It can be on the penis, vagina, rectum, tongue or lips. The ulcer disappears without any treatment which gives patients a false sense of security.
Years later it will surface again as a rash all over the body and fever. If at the time it is still not treated it will affect the brain and major blood vessels of the body causing severe illnesses.
It commonly appears as discrete pearly round lesions on the skin. They are completely painless but might be itchy.
It commonly appears as skin colored cauliflower like lumps on the skin.
It commonly causes a lot of itching especially at night. Under good lighting and magnification you can actually catch the Scabies which look like translucent tiny insects.