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testingtesting, embaressing problem alert

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ummitsabitembaressing · 03/04/2007 21:45

has my name changed?

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MintChocChippyMinton · 03/04/2007 21:46

probably

dazzlincaz · 03/04/2007 21:47

yep

PestoEasterMonster · 03/04/2007 21:47

what was it before?

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ummitsabitembaressing · 03/04/2007 21:48

right it has. My dh and I have a limited sex life due to a number of reasons. We had sex last week and dh is complaining of a really itchy penis with spots on. I have no symptoms of thrush or anything and am wondering what this could be, he is doing my head in saying he's caught something off me and whilst i don't think he really believes I have slept around it is concerning me that it could be something that displays no symptoms in women. help anyone?

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ummitsabitembaressing · 03/04/2007 21:49

I keep saying its thrush but i have no symptoms at all he does have a gammy willy though, kind of dischargy

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Swizzler · 03/04/2007 21:49

No idea, but I'd get down to a well woman clinic and get yourself checked out (for your own peace of mind if nothing else)

singingmum · 03/04/2007 21:51

have you had a go at him as he's the one with the symptoms?(sorry bit p'd off tonight)

Try to be more helpful.
Have you gone on one of these health websites?they can sometimes have searches that you put in symptoms and then it will give a list of possibilities

dazzlincaz · 03/04/2007 21:51

ummitsabitembarrassing - suggest he goes to the genitourinary clinic and gets checked out? Poor bloke is probably most uncomfortable with those symptoms and has to get whatever treatment it is required asap.

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ummitsabitembaressing · 03/04/2007 21:51

be I should don't want to look a wally if it is thrush though, he is really uncomfortable and quite frankly beginning to annoy me

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ummitsabitembaressing · 03/04/2007 21:53

he is uncomfortable but is crap when it comes to going to the dr, I don't like the fact that he keeps having a go at me.

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hairymclary · 03/04/2007 21:53

you BOTH need to go to the doctor and get checked out. clearly your partner has something wrong down there, and you may have got it too, even if you are showing no symptoms.
don't wait for it to get worse

dazzlincaz · 03/04/2007 21:54

Whatever it is, it needs to be dealt with. There could be umpteen reasons for it and you could be on the web half the night trying to self-diagnose and would STILL need to get to a doctor for it to be verified and treatment prescribed if necessary.

Couldn't be a condom allergy, could it?

luciemule · 03/04/2007 21:55

Men can get thrush on their penis without it being caught from their partner I think. My BIL used to get it a lot when on army exercises (hot/damp conditions etc). I'm sure DH has also had it when single for the same reasons. They have a term for it but it's not pleasant!

morningpaper · 03/04/2007 21:55

there are things that can cause symptoms in men and not women e.g. chlamydia

but yes - just get both of yourselves checked out and use condoms until you both have the all-clear

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ummitsabitembaressing · 03/04/2007 21:55

no I have a coil fitted, I don't mind going to the gp, he is another story, I'm sure he doesn't really think I've slept with anyone else but in eight years we have never had a problem before.

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Yurtgirl · 03/04/2007 21:55

I dont think it will go away without medical help so he needs to go to the docs asap

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ummitsabitembaressing · 03/04/2007 21:56

thanks I think I will show him this to get him to go, its chlamidyia that worries me I suppose.

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dazzlincaz · 03/04/2007 21:59

Deep breath and then go to the doctors even if he hates going to the surgery - the solution may be simple and you sure don't need to prolong the agony.

FrannyandZooey · 03/04/2007 22:00

Sounds like thrush to me. One or other of you can be symptomless but you both need to treat it or you can pass it back and forth

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ummitsabitembaressing · 03/04/2007 22:01

will cannestan type tablets work for men too? might try this first before doctor just because he is just so reluctant to go about anything let alone this

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babalon · 03/04/2007 22:01

When my dh and me first got together( forever ago) he gotty spots on the sensetive part of his willy I didn't have any symptoms. We went to the GUM clinic and both had loads of tests but it ended up just being thrush. But not like I've known it since. Honestly no itching or anything cleared up with canesten cream.

Get it checked but in the meantime maybe trying canasten might cure it

FrannyandZooey · 03/04/2007 22:03

Try the topical cream, I have known it to work
you could describe his symptoms to the chemist if you are not too embarrassed

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ummitsabitembaressing · 04/04/2007 19:56

right a bit of an update, I am now very worried, firstly he really says he will not go to the doctor, but today he came home from work and his foreskin is so swollen he cannot retract it at all. It is a right site, in 24 hours it has swollen so the foreskin is about 5 mm thick. I have bought some canestan but does it sound like its too far gone?

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mistressmiggins · 04/04/2007 19:59

could you go to the dr with him so that you show a united front?
I would deffo send him to the dr tomorrow - sounds like needs to be looked at

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ummitsabitembaressing · 04/04/2007 20:00

I would certainly go with him, but he never goes, not for anything he has a real problem, he is in agony although he did say the canestan has soothed it.

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