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Hello. Thank you for taking the time to read this.

Lets see how do I even start something like this.

In the past 9 months I was with 5 girls. Spread out over that time. The contact included mostly everything and while protection was there it doesnt matter cause I was not wearing anything at times too. From what I know their reputations were fairly good but obviously it doesn't matter since I slept around so much. The last one was about 4-5 months ago. Here are things I noticed that were out of the ordinary.

1.) about 6 inches from me genital region on my left thigh a bump appeared. It itched and I was busy through those times so I just impulsively itched it. It caused it to swell. After I itched it a lot i scraped it and that caused it to burn. So a.Im not sure if it was going to burn. B. I can not give a definate answer if it was going to form a blister.

During this time about 1 inch from that one another one appeared and yes I was itching it too. I applied a anti fungal medicine for things like athletes foot on them and one went away leaving a scar (I ITCHED it bad) and the other one didnt spread. Well one of course doesnt itch anymore because it is gone. The other one just stayed there and I got into the routine of work/sleep/rinse/repeat. So everytime I noticed it I just ignored it and went on. Well it hasnt spread and it never formed a blister or anything resembling a pimple. But now and then it itches. I am hoping it is anything from a fungus to a ingrown hair (I shaved down there around that time) But I dont see how a ingrown hair could last that long (i have no experience with them and at my age you dont just ask people about anything that could be taken as anything resembling a STD). Has anyone had any symptons like this? I have been very stressed out and would think if i was going to have another outbreak it would of happened or had been huge...PS. There is nothing on my genital region out of the ordinary.

2.) It burns when I urinate at times. I dont know where these glands are or whatever that are supposed to swell, maybe its them. But I feel like other than it burning when I urinate a pain coming from deep down my uretha (sorry for spelling) of course I am hopeful this is a UTI. I dont know how you get them but I do know I tend to hold "it" as long as I can sometimes before I go. Nothing is tender to the touch.

I am hopeful that I can see a lot of reasons why these are just opportunistic symptons that came about at the same time but I am very leary about it all. I will be getting tested shortly. However, any insight anyone can provide me with on this matter would be greatly appreciated. I know I will hopefully have a definate answer soon I always like to arm myself with info. In this case: Has anyone had these same symptons? I know the symptons can vary and vary greatly, but with anyones knowledge how common or uncommon are these? I know no ones not a doctor here but any gut feelings? I will always be hopeful but I dont want to be unrealistic.

Thank you for your time. I appreciate it.

PS. To every guy/girl here that blames this on someone else. I can not see how this in the end is anyones fault but yours. That goes for me too. I can see how it is very hard to admit the possibility of having a STD let alone admitting it. So why would anyone just flat out give an answer of "Yes i have this or that."? Besides, if they said that, how many people do you think you would of told? Enough to ruin their life? Lust is a strong thing and I wasn't strong enough to allow myself to think rationally and clearly with my decisions. I would think that a lot of you are the same way.

Wish me luck.

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