how long can you live with an std without knowing?
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One of the reasons many people don't know they're infected is that many STDs don't have any symptoms. You can be infected with an STD for years without knowing it. Even when STDs don't have obvious symptoms, they can still damage your body.
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Without treatment, your syphilis will likely continue to progress. It can be 10 or 20 years before you experience the worst effects. Eventually, untreated syphilis can lead to damage to the brain, eyes, heart, nerves, bones, joints, and liver.
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Symptoms of syphilis In women, the first sign may be a sore around or inside the vagina. You might not even notice the sore, because syphilis sores do not usually hurt. The sores go away after 3 to 6 weeks. You may also have enlarged lymph nodes (glands) in your groin.
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A chancre may also occur in an area of the body other than the genitals. The chancre lasts for 3 to 6 weeks, heals without treatment, and may leave a thin scar. But even though the chancre has healed, syphilis is still present and a person can still pass the infection to others.
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Not everyone gets these symptoms, but in people who do they usually last 1 to 2 weeks. After the symptoms disappear, you may not have any further symptoms for many years, even though the infection remains in your body.
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Symptoms usually appear one to three weeks after infection, but then go away, even if left untreated. Many people infected with chlamydia never have any symptoms at all. Chlamydia can be transmitted to the throat by an infected penis.
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Most people who have chlamydia don't know it. Often the disease has no symptoms. You can pass chlamydia to others without knowing it. Chlamydia is easy to treat and cure.
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The truth is, 1 in 2 people will contract an STI by the time they reach the age of 25—some curable, some not. An astounding 20 million people in the U.S. contract an STI every year, and those are only the STIs which get reported.
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The key signs of gonorrhea and chlamydia can appear within one to three weeks after having sex with a partner with the STD. Even with no symptoms, it is still possible to transmit the disease and damage the reproductive system.
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The majority of people who have chlamydia don't experience any symptoms at all. And even if you do have symptoms, they may not show up for anywhere from 1 week to 3 or more months after the infection is first spread to you through sexual intercourse.
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Not necessarily. Many STDs can stay hidden with no symptoms for years. So, while your partner may have given it to you, he or she may have had it before they were with you. The most important thing is for both of you to get tested and treated at the same time so you don't re-infect each other.
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Generally, it's not recommended that you have sex until your UTI has completely cleared up — that is, you've been symptom-free for at least two weeks and completed your full course of antibiotics — no cheating or shorting yourself a day or two.
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If symptoms happen, they usually start anywhere from 1-3 weeks after becoming infected. People without symptoms can still have complications from the infection and pass it to sexual contacts. Symptoms of chlamydia can include: A clear or milky discharge from the penis.
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Most people who have chlamydia don't know it. Often the disease has no symptoms. You can pass chlamydia to others without knowing it.
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But most of the time, and typically for people with a vagina, trichomoniasis can last for months or years if left untreated. Related: Here's Why Sexually Transmitted Infection Rates Are So High, According to STI Experts. 5 STIs You Can Have Without Knowing It.
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Without treatment After a diagnosis of AIDS, people who do not have treatment typically survive for 3 years. If a person who is not receiving treatment for AIDS also develops an opportunistic illness, their life expectancy drops to 12 months.
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Many sexually active people become infected with HPV at some point in their lives, but never develop symptoms. The virus typically disappears within two years. There's no routinely used HPV screening test for men, in whom the infection is diagnosed by visual inspection or biopsy of genital warts.