Post-encounter upper respiratory infections

[+ claym]

Anyone else more often than not come down with the flu or a common cold or sore throat after a hot experience with a hookup or escort?   If so have you found a way to reduce its likelihood?

The best part of such encounters for me is the passionate kissing.  My non-medical assumption is that my immune system has gone into fight mode after experiencing something that is most likely the other person's normal protective flora and not necessarily a viral or bacterial infection.  

I also wonder how providers who have the reputation of being great kissers manage to stay healthy with the frequency of their exposure to what may be another person's normal human flora.

Thoughts?

 

Edited January 29 by claym
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[+ Vegas_Millennial]

1 hour ago, claym said:

Anyone else more often than not come down with the flu or a common cold or sore throat after a hot experience with a hookup or escort?   If so have you found a way to reduce its likelihood?

The best part of such encounters for me is the passionate kissing.  My non-medical assumption is that my immune system has gone into fight mode after experiencing something that is most likely the other person's normal protective flora and not necessarily a viral or bacterial infection.  

I also wonder how providers who have the reputation of being great kissers manage to stay healthy with the frequency of their exposure to what may be another person's normal human flora.

Thoughts?

 

I frequently had sore throats for a few days after deep throating a hung man.  I think it was less due to bacteria/virus and more due to physical trauma to the back of my throat.  I've since learned that poppers work well to relax my throat in such situations, so my sore throats are less common now that the penis can go further down my throat without banging on my tonsils.

Edited January 29 by Vegas_Millennial

[jeezifonly]

Restraint.

[+ SirBillybob]

I can’t kiss and tell.

[MenSpl]

Sore throats can have different causes, try some propolis and ginger, that's what I do after seeing providers, vitamin c tablets too.  If it is persistent or keeps returning, it’s worth to keep hydrated before and after, eat a good diet too.

[hungry4darkmeat]

I once had a guy who fucked my throat and then my ass transmit an upper respiratory infection from my throat to my gi tract. The doctor swore I had an sti but after several rounds of testing it turned out to be the type of staph infection that typically occurs in the throat.

 

[+ claym]

33 minutes ago, hungry4darkmeat said:

I once had a guy who fucked my throat and then my ass transmit an upper respiratory infection from my throat to my gi tract. The doctor swore I had an sti but after several rounds of testing it turned out to be the type of staph infection that typically occurs in the throat.

 

Interesting.  What were your GI symptoms?  Did the doctor suspect gonorrhea or . . . ?

[+ Pensant]

That’s never happened to me over twenty years, thankfully. I seem to have a powerful immune system. For example my last bad cold was January 2013 and I never got Covid(or at least “symptomatic” Covid).

[mike carey]

9 minutes ago, Pensant said:

That’s never happened to me over twenty years, thankfully. I seem to have a powerful immune system. For example my last bad cold was January 2013 and I never got Covid(or at least “symptomatic” Covid).

It's a strange thing, I had always had colds, nothing extreme, but noticeable symptoms progressing over a week or more at least once a year, sometimes more. I don't know when that changed, but I did notice that I had nothing of the sort during Covid. The isolation, mask wearing, the distancing, the limited outside interactions we were allowed, whatever it was, ended up with me having no respiratory infections through the winter of 2020, and still nothing into December, and January 2021 or the times over the next year when we had so many lock downs. Since then I haven't had a severe cold, only minor symptoms that built up a bit and faded (not always quickly). I have no idea what it was. Perhaps the Covid vaccinations, the flu vax I was more careful to get providing wider immunity than they had promised, or simply aging or the virus free years during the pandemic. I hope the hell that the absence of that part of my earlier life continues! 

[+ claym]

3 hours ago, mike carey said:

It's a strange thing, I had always had colds, nothing extreme, but noticeable symptoms progressing over a week or more at least once a year, sometimes more. I don't know when that changed, but I did notice that I had nothing of the sort during Covid. The isolation, mask wearing, the distancing, the limited outside interactions we were allowed, whatever it was, ended up with me having no respiratory infections through the winter of 2020, and still nothing into December, and January 2021 or the times over the next year when we had so many lock downs. Since then I haven't had a severe cold, only minor symptoms that built up a bit and faded (not always quickly). I have no idea what it was. Perhaps the Covid vaccinations, the flu vax I was more careful to get providing wider immunity than they had promised, or simply aging or the virus free years during the pandemic. I hope the hell that the absence of that part of my earlier life continues! 

 

Well stated.  I too was free of respiratory infections during Covid for I believe the conditions you have identified.   And that has been generally true since the loosening of most restrictions.  Hints of a cold or flu respond quickly to over-the-counter medications.  Save for an erotic massage that turned into not unhappily a full escort experience.  Bam!  I was down for the count and then some.  I now find myself restless to hire but wary of encounters that are by plan fully immersive.  

[+ claym]

21 hours ago, MenSpl said:

Sore throats can have different causes, try some propolis and ginger, that's what I do after seeing providers, vitamin c tablets too.  If it is persistent or keeps returning, it’s worth to keep hydrated before and after, eat a good diet too.

Just seeing this now.  Thanks for the advice.  I will give propolis, ginger, and vitamin c a try.    Following up on what you have said, I guess the best prevention is good self-care: hydration, diet, sleep, regular exercise, and normal amounts of stress.

For anyone interested in learning more about propolis, here is an article from the National Library of Medicine: Propolis: A Wonder Bees Product and Its Pharmacological Potentials:

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC3872021/#B22

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[mike carey]

Further to my comment yesterday, and going to the part of the question musing about the correlation of an encounter being followed by mild symptoms, I have often wondered about apparently coincidentally having a cold while travelling. The idea that it might be an immune response to changes in environmental stimuli, the body adjusting to different microorganisms, pollens and the like, sounds plausible. Sort of a spike in immune response resulting in respiratory discomfort as it adapts to a new normal. I can recall similar nasal reactions after working in dusty conditions.

Whether it's the body clearing up a minor viral infection or reacting to altered environmental conditions is immaterial, something, if it's minor is worth musing about rather than worrying. It's part of the price of admission to enjoying life.

[BuffaloKyle]

Yeah I sometimes have a sore throat the day after a passionate sexual encounter. Not sure if it's from giving oral or from deep kissing. I have started to brush my teeth and gargle mouthwash really good after sex just to clean my mouth out of the other guy's cum/saliva and I think it's helped lessen that from happening.

Edited January 30 by BuffaloKyle

[hungry4darkmeat]

21 hours ago, claym said:

Interesting.  What were your GI symptoms?  Did the doctor suspect gonorrhea or . . . ?

Symptoms were a very swollen and irritated hole, crazy diarrhea and a lot of mucus like discharge from my ass. The doctor thought it was herpes, then clamydia or gonorreah and took blood tests each visit for two weeks while i had to find excuses for why I had to say no to my boyfriend - he had me on several different antibiotics and eventually I made him take enough blood to test me for everything. That’s when he found out what was going on although by that time the antibiotics had cleared everything up. It was a rough couple weeks tho

[hungry4darkmeat]

Ps Biotene is your friend 

[Rod Hagen]

In 1999 I got strep from one client and that same day gave it to someone else; I was traveling, so I saw more than one client in a day.

There is no sore throat like strep, and I knew it the next day.  My NYC Dr. would not give me antibiotics without a positive test, luckily (?) I gave him one :-( 

It's also possible we all three had strep already, it was  going around.

[+ Vegas_Millennial]

6 hours ago, Rod Hagen said:

In 1999 I got strep from one client and that same day gave it to someone else; I was traveling, so I saw more than one client in a day.

There is no sore throat like strep, and I knew it the next day.  My NYC Dr. would not give me antibiotics without a positive test, luckily (?) I gave him one 😞

It's also possible we all three had strep already, it was  going around.

This is why during cold and flu season, I prefer to only do doggie style.  It keeps my partner's mouth a few feet away from mine.

[ShortCutie7]

About a year ago I came down with a “strep-like bacterial infection” a few days after seeing a provider… not sure exactly what it was, but antibiotics seemed to clear it and the provider tested negative for whatever he got tested for.

[hungry4darkmeat]

Doxy is your friend! It has been fantastic to be able to just take a round of it without having to get a new script and it seems to ward off most of the bugs that could cause infections not just stis but also strep and other bacterial infections that can be transmitted sexually 

[+ FrankR]

7 hours ago, hungry4darkmeat said:

Doxy is your friend! It has been fantastic to be able to just take a round of it without having to get a new script and it seems to ward off most of the bugs that could cause infections not just stis but also strep and other bacterial infections that can be transmitted sexually 

Doxy may be your friend but not the friend of your kids, nieces and nephews. Overuse and overprescription of antibiotics without a clear diagnosis is resulting in a significant rise in anti-microbeal resistant bugs.   It is also harmful to your immune and digestive system.  

[+ claym]

17 hours ago, hungry4darkmeat said:

Doxy is your friend! It has been fantastic to be able to just take a round of it without having to get a new script and it seems to ward off most of the bugs that could cause infections not just stis but also strep and other bacterial infections that can be transmitted sexually 

Thank you for this.  All along I have probably had the best preventive measure in my medicine cabinet: Doxy PEP.  I surely understand the concern  around overuse and superbugs.  In my case use will be quite infrequent, and my best judgement tells me I will not be contributing to  antibiotic resistance.

[+ nycman]

I used to get “kennel cough”, or at the very least a URI/sore throat, every time I visited a bathhouse. I didn’t go that often, but it was often enough that it was annoying. When I went, I routinely hooked up with three or four guys each night. I learned to use an antiseptic mouthwash before and after every encounter and the problems seemed to go away. Even though my Bathhouse Betty days are long behind me, it’s a practice I continue today, before and after every sexual encounter. Anecdotal evidence at best, but it works for me. Hope it helps you.

[Thomas_Belgium]

On 1/30/2026 at 7:43 AM, hungry4darkmeat said:

Ps Biotene is your friend 

 

What exactly does Biotène do?

[+ claym]

44 minutes ago, Thomas_Belgium said:

 

What exactly does Biotène do?

I know it as an over-the-counter  mouthwash/rinse for dry mouth and throat.  My dentist prescribed it to me for such purposes.  My experience is that it can provide very short relief but only that.  I'm not sure how it applies to this conversation.

[hungry4darkmeat]

3 hours ago, claym said:

I know it as an over-the-counter  mouthwash/rinse for dry mouth and throat.  My dentist prescribed it to me for such purposes.  My experience is that it can provide very short relief but only that.  I'm not sure how it applies to this conversation.

Yes it works as an antiseptic and when used afterwards can help kill bacteria and prevent them from causing more serious infections like upper respiratory infections. 
 

its also helpful for when you have dry mouth - very helpful for extended oral sessions or when using enhancements that can make your mouth dry