My Primary Care will not treat my MGen properly.
I have a primary care office that I have been going to since I was young. They are fine for general medicine things (ie. Colds, seasonal allergies, etc.) but I tend to avoid them for more complex issues. Well, I contracted MGen through one of my regular sexual partners. I took an at home test and it came back positive (I already figured it would because I’m fairly educated on sexual health as I am a very sexually active gay man on prep and doxy). I took this test to my doctor and told them that I had tested at home for mgen. They immediately wanted to do further testing for other stis even though I also showed them my test results from my prep and doxy that I had done a week before I got the results for my positive mgen test. In the meantime, they put me on the first recommended treatment of doxycycline followed by azithromycin. Symptoms did weaken, but it did not kill the infection, which I figured would happen because the alternative round of treatment (doxycycline followed by moxifloxacin) historically has a better success rate. I went back to my doctor and they insisted on running more labs. I told them that I knew there was an alternative treatment plan and after going back and forth a bit, the doctor agreed. Well, I noticed she only prescribed me the moxifloxacin, leaving out the very important first dose of doxycycline. I called and spoke to the doctor about this and they told me I didn’t need doxycycline per cdc guidelines (that is a lie, it clearly states on the cdc website that a sequential regimen of medication is REQUIRED to fully get rid of the infection). I finished the moxifloxicin and SHOCKER I still have symptoms. 😒 I call my doctor back and reiterate that I believe I wasn’t prescribed the correct regimen of medication and they blew me off and told me the best they could do is refer me to infectious disease. They refused to prescribe the requested medication regimen and told me I’ll go septic if I don’t see the specialist. I need advice. Am I crazy? I don’t think my doctor is doing this correctly. Thank you.