STD Symptoms

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It's difficult to say, hard to hear, and even worse to actually find out you have one, but the word is that if you have "ever had sex," you are eligible for an STD (a sexually-transmitted disease). But curing-and even better, preventing-many STD's is more easily done when one knows the STD symptoms, some of which are unappealing enough to discourage us from practicing unsafe sex…hopefully not from enjoying it.

One of the more easily detectable STD symptoms is itching around the vagina or penis and/or a vaginal discharge (that has a distinctly different-bad-odor) and a discharge from the penis.

Another one of the more unpleasant of STD symptoms is an experience of pain during intercourse, painful urinating, or pain-from hard aches to cramp-like pain-in the groin/pelvic area. During urination, too, it is possible that very dark (darker than vitamin-colored) urine and/or very light-colored and loose bowel movements are poiting to an STD.

Sore throats, even more unpleasant even to think about STD symptoms, are possible for anyone who has had oral sex with an STD-infected partner. Swollen glands and fever and body aches, too, might be caused by an STD,. And for people who have anal sex, anal pain could be an indication of an STD.

More detectable by eye are the STD symptoms that manifest as chancres--painless, bubbly red sores-on genitals, in the anal areas, on the tongue, lips, and/or in the throat. Small blisters in and on the genitals that turn to scabs are symptomatic of an STD, and also, some people will find evidence of an STD by way of a scaly red or mottled rash on the palms and on the soles of the hands and feet.

Protect and prevent is best, but second-best is to see a doctor as soon as possible.

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