How can I help a bruised finger?

How long can hiv or other std's go without symptoms? please help?

• **i kno this mite be kinda long, but plz take the time to read it & help me out. im really worried & upset!!! & before i go to the doctor, i want to kno a few things...*** before i begin let me just say, ive never been one to get sick that often. ok, so back in august, i hooked up with a guy. we did not have sex, but i did give him oral sex. i remember just before he came over i told him i was gonna take a shower real quick & he told me he wasnt going to shower so he could leave sooner (which i didnt think anything of it, ppl take showers at nite & some times durin the morning). anyways the next day i didnt feel good at all. my throat was killin me. turns out i had a severe case of strep throat. i googled if you could get strep from oral & it said it is possible if they hadn't showered before it happened. so of course i was like great. but i got better within like 4 or 5 days. i was on antibiotics for a week, almost 2 cause i had to take them til they were gone. at some point when i had strep i remember i got the smallest rash around my middle finger. like on the sides of it at the very bottom. you couldnt really it that well unless i had itched it recently cause it would turn red. they were tiny little dots. i could feel them tho. it almost felt like poison ivy dots. but i didnt think anything of it cause ive had that happen before. it went away too after a couple days tho. then about a month later, me & my ex hungout & we ended up hooking up. we had oral sex & actual sex. a couple days later, my vagina was itching and on fire so bad. i had a yeast infection. i figured it was from the antibiotics cause ive gotten one from taking an antibiotic before. so i got a pill for yeast infection & took it, usually when i do it starts going away by the next day. well... it didnt feel worse or better. i was still itching & burning so bad. at the same time this had been goin on, i had diarrhea really bad too (it left a cut on my bottom from having to wipe & use the bathroom so much) so whenever i would pee, if it touched the cut, it burned SO bad. i didnt think anything of it. figured id ate some thing that upset my stomach. when about 2 days had gone past & my Y.I. still hadnt gone away, i started to worry... but of course when i started worrying, it went away. now here we are in the beginning of november. my little sister was sick with strep on monday, halloween. he was well over it by that thursday, nov. 3. thursday, i woke up feeling sick. very bad, pounding headache. felt so weak. my joints were aching. if someone barely touched my arms or if i got cold & got goosebumps my skin felt like it was bruised... had a high fever that night. woke up the next morning (friday) freezin to death but i was sweating. lifted my shirt up and felt my chest and it was literally wet, like water. then i realized my throat felt like strep throat. ive been takin amoxicillin for it & motrin. saturday i checked my throat and i saw i had two of those white bumps on the back left side of my throat. if i feel on my neck on the left side. its swollen so badly. and if i push on it, its kind of tender. sunday morning, nov. 6 i woke up and had three cuts or sores in my mouth. one is on the top part of my mouth, towards the back a little above a tooth. it feels like a long, big, scrape and burns and hurts so bad. ones on the back of my mouth in between my very back tooth and my cheek. right on the gum between them. it feels like a bump. and it hurts so bad too. and lastly, ones underneath my tongue close to the back, on my gum, a little underneath a tooth. i thought it was weird cause i hadnt ate chips the nite before or anything and thats what the cut on the top feels like. i checked my throat and it has probably 6 white bumps on the left side now. here it is monday nov. 7 and im still not better. my mouth hurts so bad & so does my throat. im not one to get sick very often, like i said before. after discovering the cuts/scrapes/sores, im worried to death. cuz i mean, shouldnt it be gone by now? i looked up stds & the one i related to the most was hiv. =( but it hasnt been persistent symptoms. it's just been on & off, spaced out. so idk if im over thinking it or what. what do u guys think & what does it sound like to you??

• Answer:

  It sound as if your resistance to infection is low. Instead of worrying about STIs (and worry, stress, lowers our resistance to infection) look online for an STI clinic in your area, and go get tested. One worry off your mind, then rest, eat properly, drink plenty and take care of yourself. No improvement, time off and see your doctor.