{"id":122574,"date":"2025-09-06T06:49:08","date_gmt":"2025-09-06T06:49:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/122574\/"},"modified":"2025-09-06T06:49:08","modified_gmt":"2025-09-06T06:49:08","slug":"whats-causing-this-back-pain-and-penile-lesions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/122574\/","title":{"rendered":"What&#8217;s causing this back pain and penile lesions?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Jim is a 31-year-old who presents with a one-month history of penile lesions consisting of a few inflammatory oval rings affecting the glans corona and distal shaft (see figure 1). These are minimally itchy.<\/p>\n<p>Jim has also been experiencing pain in his lower back and both shoulders which is unusual for him and cannot be explained by any injuries or triggers.<\/p>\n<p>He has also noted painless oral ulcers, but has not had any fever, rash or lymphadenopathy.<\/p>\n<p>He has tried over-the-counter clotrimazole\/hydrocortisone cream for a week which has been of no benefit.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\u00d7<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\t\tSign in\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p class=\"message adg-password-reset\">\n\t\t\t\tIf this is your first visit to the new AusDoc website, reset your password<br \/>\n\t\t\t\t<a class=\"adg-reset_password_link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ausdoc.com.au\/wp-login.php?action=lostpassword\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">here.<\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jim is a 31-year-old who presents with a one-month history of penile lesions consisting of a few inflammatory&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":122575,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[5280,64,63,137,86280,86281,8711,86282],"class_list":{"0":"post-122574","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-health","8":"tag-antibiotics","9":"tag-au","10":"tag-australia","11":"tag-health","12":"tag-infectious-diseases-stis","13":"tag-nsaids","14":"tag-sexual-health","15":"tag-topical-medication"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122574","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=122574"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122574\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/122575"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=122574"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=122574"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=122574"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}