Common STDs you can have without knowing – When did you last get a check-up? If you cannot remember the last time you went for a routine health evaluation, then you need to sign up for one as soon as possible. The advantage of letting a doctor perform routine tests on your body is that you will give him or her the opportunity to detect a problem long before it becomes life-threatening.
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When it comes to Sexually Transmitted Diseases (STDs), people tend to believe that they can’t get them, which leads them to ignore all the signs that point to the possibility of having an STD. This ignorance gives the disease enough time to grow, develop, and become life-threatening, yet if it received attention early enough it would have never gone out of hand.
This article is about STDs that an individual can have without knowing that he or she is suffering from them. Some STDs here show no signs or symptoms at all for a few years, and as a result the patients live their lives normally without any special concerns. Other STDs do not show any indication for the period during which the carrier is alive, and will only be detected by chance, if it eventually is. Still other STDs have extremely mild symptoms, making it easy for the infected people to assume that all they have is a common cold or a simple ailment.
Whether an STD has symptoms or not, it is very important to visit a medical professional as soon as you suspect something. If you feel itchy down there, notice some rashes or lumps that keep coming back, have pain urinating, or experience pain during intercourse, you need to go to the hospital to be checked for any of the following STDs:
10. Trichomoniasis
Did you know that according to the Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Trichomoniasis is the most commonly curable STD? Now you know. This STD is caused by a parasite called Trichomonas vaginalis, which has the ability to attach itself to a patient’s cells and can lead to further cell degradation.
The interesting thing about this STD is that not everyone who has it develops symptoms, meaning that someone can live with it for many years without even knowing that he or she has it. In fact, most men hardly develop symptoms, and most only find out they have it when their sexual partners go for treatment.
For those who are not so fortunate as to live without knowing they have it, they develop irritation on the penis, a burning irritation after ejaculation and urination, mild penile discharge, and for women, foul-smelling vaginal discharge.
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