hi Dr.Pinhas
my boyfriend was diagnosed with chalymdia and he has been started with the treatment today and i probably think i may have it too. please what should i do. i really need you help. thanks alot.
J
Response for Dr. Pinhas
Chlamydia is the most common bacterial STD in the U.S. so if you and your beaux are not monogamous and not practicing safe sex, it is not surprising that one of you would contract this “annoying but must be treated” STD. As a matter of fact, the young sexually active teenage population ( which you are one) has the highest incidence rate of this specific STD of all sexually active groups. The reason you do not know you have chlamydia is that it is asymptomatic in most females, that is, they rarely have symptoms while guys typically have a mild burning urination and some white discharge exuding from their penis. Unless, your beaux is “checked out” or “stoned” all the time, it would be hard for him to miss these symptoms. Apparently, he knew he had symptoms and at least had the honesty, dignity and respect for your welfare to inform you, that you need to be medically checked. Since most woman have little no symptoms for months, you may have given it to him ( if you were sexually active with others). The only other possibility for transmission is he was fooling around and transmitted this bacterial to you through vaginal, anal or oral sex. This bacteria can also be transmitted from fingers to genitalia or the anal opening.
The most important thing is that you go to Planned Parenthood to have a battery of STD testing done. For Chlamydia, they will put you in the stirrups and take a smear off of your cervix and analyze the the results. If you didn’t go to a health care provider and blew off the suggestion to seek treatment, you would find yourself looking at a pelvic inflammatory disease infection a few months down the road. Not fun at all. The bacterial would silently travel from your vaginal canal and cervix into your uterine lining and fallopian tubes wrecking havoc. A sleeping giant would emerge, that is, you would have pretty distinctive symptoms. These symptoms include chronic pelvic pain ( especially above your pubic bone), lower back pain, fever, nausea and vomiting, headache etc. Some young women mistake this for the flu. If PID is left untreated, the fallopian tubes can become scarred which would leave a woman sterile or more than likely to have a tubal ectopic pregnancy should she conceive. None of these conditions are welcomed outcomes so you are doing a GREAT thing by getting medical care even without symptoms.
The treatment is a piece of cake. If the chlamydia is uncomplicated, you’d be taking a protocol of doxycycline orally for 7 days. They may put you on a gram dose of azithromycin as an option. But lets leave the choice of antibiotic treatment up to the health care providers. Remember to take acidophilus pills (healthy bacterial pills that will eat yeast to replace the good bacterial killed by the treatment ) with your medication so you don’t get a yeast infection.
I think its time for you and your beaux to have a heart-to-heart talk about respect and consideration for both of your feelings and the place that monogamy and safe-sex practices have in your relationship, especially in light of the chlamydia discovery.
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