sti?

[crayon-killer.livejournal.com]

is it common to bleed from sex? i used to rarely but lately, its everytime. this particular time, its been three days. its spotting, not like a period exactly. i am on birth control and not the placebo pills so its not that. i havent been late or missed one ever. its 100% when he cums in me and 50% when he doesnt. iis this a sign of an sti? i was checked a couple months ago for stds but not stis. i know im not pregnant, or at least the pregnancy tests i take twice a week say negative. help?

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[crayon-killer.livejournal.com]

i know that chlamydia is both an sti and std but things like trich and bv and vaginitis are solely considered stis.

i have been on birth control for most of ten years and i still currently am but i have never spot bled before. and it seems odd that it only happens after sex.

as for the roughness, my last partner was 500% more rough than this one and couldnt turn me on to save his life (prolly cos of how rough he was) so it was long lasting, dry, painful sex and his penis was twice as big as my current partner. but i only bled with him once or something.

its not just bleeding. there are other issues as well. im itchy and it burns to pee after sex and i am cracked right where the vulva starts. some gross discharge.

bah im just gonna go to the department of health free std testing next week. :-/

[night-of-love.livejournal.com]

In the Sexual Health course I just took last semester, we used STI to refer to all of these, but used seperat categories of viral and bacterial. So something like chlamydia or ghorrea (pardon my spelling) would be considered a bacterial STI and something like BV or HIV would be considered viral. We also learned BV and vaginitis as the same thing (i.e. BV standing for bacterial vaginitis), but all of this is merely what I learned-and I certainly could be wrong. Just a different opinion!

[queensugar.livejournal.com]

BV generally stands for bacterial vaginosis. (http://www.mayoclinic.com/health/vaginitis/DS00255)

But since BV is one of the main causes of vaginitis (http://www.mayoclinic.com/health/vaginitis/DS00255), that could be why they were taught to you as similar. Basically, vaginitis is a broad term describing any vaginal inflammation that is accompanied by pain or discomfort, and BV is one such infection that causes that. :)

[night-of-love.livejournal.com]

Thanks so much!

[roseyposey01.livejournal.com]

Yeah I would get tested...the burning to pee, the cracking, and gross discharge don't seem right to me. Good luck!

[queensugar.livejournal.com]

Generally, the terms STI and STD are used interchangeably. However, many people use STI because that's technically broader and applies to all sexually transmissible infections... a disease is the result of an infection, but it's the infection itself that is sexually transmitted, if that makes sense.

For more reference, Wikipedia has an unusually good entry on that. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sexually-transmitted_infection) To quote:

The term sexually transmitted disease remains in common use; however, clinicians are increasingly using the term sexually transmitted infection and sometimes distinguish the two. According to http://www.etharc.org:

"Sometimes the terms STI and STD are used interchangeably. This can be confusing and not always accurate, so it helps first to understand the difference between infection and disease. Infection simply means that a germ – virus, bacteria, or parasite – that can cause disease or sickness is present inside a person’s body. An infected person does not necessarily have any symptoms or signs that the virus or bacteria is actually hurting their body (they do not necessarily feel sick). A disease means that the infection is actually causing the infected person to feel sick, or to notice something is wrong. For this reason, the term STI – which refers to infection with any germ that can cause an STD, even if the infected person has no symptoms – is a much broader term than STD."

The distinction being made, however, is closer to that between a colonization and an infection, rather than between an infection and a disease.

Specifically, the term STD refers only to infections that are causing symptoms or problems. Because most of the time people do not know that they are infected with an STD until they start showing symptoms of disease, most people use the term STD, even though the term STI is also appropriate in many cases.

I would also add that BV is not totally an STI. While there is a strong link between sexual activity and bacterial vaginosis (which is poorly understood by researchers), women who have never been sexually active can have BV, and women who have been in a long-term monogamous relationship can also get it.

As for vaginitis, it is a type of vaginal distress (http://www.mayoclinic.com/health/vaginitis/DS00255) that can be caused by BV, yeast infections, among other things.

[3-black-cats.livejournal.com]

Thank you, thank you, for posting a clarification about STI vs. STD. I was starting to wonder about the difference myself, and that pretty much cleared up the confusion for me. :)

[crayon-killer.livejournal.com]

well, its for sure not right but i was tested for chlamydia and gonorrea and hiv and common stds. i would think i have an infection of some sort. not neccesarily a secually transmitted one though. heh cool.

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[lindsey-nichole.livejournal.com]

I would definitely get myself to the doc. It's possible that the roughness of the sex caused small tears in your vaginal wall, it's possible you have a yeast infection, the crack around your vulva could be bleeding after sex if you aren't giving it time to heal. It could be alot of things really.

And STI is just more of a PC term for STD. Infection is more accurate as not all STI's are a life sentence and can be treated and cured. Typically, STI's are classified as bacterial or viral and that's what seperates them in terms of treatment options.

You also might want to edit your post to include the other symptoms you're having (im itchy and it burns to pee after sex and i am cracked right where the vulva starts. some gross discharge.) as this will help others who are browsing and don't sort through the comments and might help you get some more advice.

[queensugar.livejournal.com]

And STI is just more of a PC term for STD.

I just wanted to point out that generally, STI is not necessarily used because it's more "PC," but because it's generally more accurate when describing a broad range of sexually transmitted situations. This wiki article (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sexually_transmitted_infection) explains the difference in terminology -- essentially, the term "disease" only refers to the actual symptoms or problems caused by the infection.

But since STIs may not show symptoms for a period of time (or at all), STI is more accurate when speaking broadly. A woman showing symptoms of chlamydia, for instance, may be said to have an STD. But if she has chlamydia and it is dormant or not showing symptoms, then it is an infection and not a disease.

Hope that clears things up. :)

[lindsey-nichole.livejournal.com]

That would be according to my professor for my Sexuality class and I hadn't really given much thought to it - more as a general explanation as to why some doctors and people use the term STI now instead of STD.

I think most people think in terms of an STD being incurable and an STI being like chlamydia and being able to be treated for it like the OP mentioned - which was why I was pointing that out :)

[queensugar.livejournal.com]

That may (or may not -- I've usually always heard chlamydia be called an STD) be the general concept out there, but it's never to late to share more information about accurate terminology and why it applies. :)

[lindsey-nichole.livejournal.com]

It's never too late :)

I'm all for learning more about things of this nature and the varying opinions that come a long with that.

[mollyester.livejournal.com]

Here's an article (http://www.a-womans-touch.com/article/35/54/What_causes_vaginal_bleeding.html), written by a medical doctor, about possible causes of vaginal bleeding. Hope it helps!