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Which STDs cause which symptoms, the questions people actually search.
Early warning signs of pelvic inflammatory disease (PID) include lower abdominal or pelvic pain, unusual discharge with a bad odor, fever, pain or bleeding during sex, burning with urination, and bleeding between periods.
A yeast infection brings diffuse itching, burning, and a thick white discharge across the whole vulva, while genital herpes typically causes a cluster of painful blisters or sores in one spot. Yeast i
A painless sore or bump in the genital, anal, or oral area is most often the chancre of syphilis: a single firm, round, painless ulcer that appears about three weeks after exposure and then heals on its own.
If your symptoms could be either an STI or menopause, the most likely culprits are vaginal dryness and irritation from falling estrogen, or one of three often-silent STIs - chlamydia, gonorrhea, or trichomoniasis.
Abnormal vaginal discharge is one of the most common reasons women seek STI testing. Here's how to tell BV from chlamydia from yeast - and when to get tested.
No - STD symptoms are very often invisible. Many of the most common sexually transmitted infections, including chlamydia, gonorrhea, HIV, and most HPV, cause no symptoms for weeks, years, or ever.
Bleeding between periods or after sex can be a sign of an STI - most often chlamydia, gonorrhea, or trichomoniasis, which inflame the cervix and make it bleed easily.
Yes - you can absolutely have hepatitis B or C and feel completely fine. Both infect the liver, both spread through blood and (for hepatitis B) sex, and both are frequently silent.
White spots or patches on the penis are most often not caused by an STI. The two harmless look-alikes - Fordyce spots and pearly penile papules - are normal anatomy.
True testicular atrophy - the testicle actually shrinking - is rarely a direct, early sign of an STI.
Most STIs don't cause nausea and vomiting.
Genital swelling can come from a few sexually transmitted infections - genital herpes, chancroid, and lymphogranuloma venereum (LGV) - but it's just as often something that isn't an STI at all, like an allergic reaction, a cyst, or a blocked gland.
A handful of STIs raise your long-term cancer risk, and they do it through chronic infection rather than the bump or sore you might expect.
Lower-abdominal or pelvic pain from a sexually transmitted infection most often points to pelvic inflammatory disease (PID), a complication of untreated chlamydia or gonorrhea.
The STIs most likely to cause genital pain are genital herpes (painful blisters and sores), gonorrhea and chlamydia (burning urination, sometimes testicular or pelvic pain), and trichomoniasis (itching, soreness, and burning).
Three sexually transmitted infections most often cause frequent or burning urination: chlamydia, gonorrhea, and trichomoniasis.
A sore throat can be a symptom of a sexually transmitted infection when oral sex transmits the bacteria to the throat.
Blood in the urine (hematuria) is not a classic symptom of most sexually transmitted infections, but the two bacterial STIs most likely to irritate the urethra enough to cause it are chlamydia and gonorrhea.
Two sexually transmitted infections most often cause mouth or lip sores: genital herpes (HSV-1 or HSV-2), which produces painful blisters that break into sores, and syphilis, whose primary stage brings a single painless firm sore called a chancre.
The STIs most likely to cause genital ulcers or sores are genital herpes, syphilis, and chancroid. Herpes and chancroid sores are usually painful; the syphilis sore is classically painless.