can you still have symptoms after being treated for chlamydia?
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Although medication will stop the infection, it will not repair any permanent damage done by the disease. If a person's symptoms continue for more than a few days after receiving treatment, he or she should return to a health care provider to be reevaluated. Repeat infection with chlamydia is common.
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Symptoms can occur within 2-14 days after infection. However, a person may have chlamydia for months, or even years, without knowing it.
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Chlamydia Treatment and Care Chlamydia can be easily cured with antibiotics. HIV-positive persons with chlamydia should receive the same treatment as those who are HIV-negative.
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If you do have symptoms, they may not appear until several weeks after you have sex with an infected partner. If the infection spreads, you might get lower abdominal pain, pain during sex, nausea, or fever. If the chlamydia infects the rectum (in men or women), it can cause rectal pain, discharge, and/or bleeding.
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Women may not experience symptoms if they have a chlamydia infection in the rectum. If symptoms of a rectal infection do occur, however, they may include rectal pain, discharge, or bleeding. Additionally, women can develop a throat infection if they perform oral sex on someone with the infection.
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If you've had chlamydia and were treated in the past, you can still get infected again. This can happen if you have unprotected sex with someone who has chlamydia. If you are pregnant, you can give chlamydia to your baby during childbirth.
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Symptoms usually appear within one to three weeks after being infected and may be very mild. If not treated, chlamydia can lead to damage to the reproductive system. In women, chlamydial infection can spread to the uterus or fallopian tubes and cause pelvic inflammatory disease (PID), according to the CDC.
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It takes 7 days for the medicine to work in your body and cure Chlamydia infection. If you have sex without a condom during the 7 days after taking the medicine, you could still pass the infection to your sex partners, even if you have no symptoms.
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If you take the treatment according to instructions, it's over 95% effective at treating chlamydia. You'll be given a course of antibiotics for 3 or 7 days or sometimes up to two weeks. If there's a high chance you have chlamydia, treatment may be started before the results of the test are back.
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It's not a big deal - it's the most common sexually transmitted infection you can pick up. 80 per cent of people who have chlamydia don't have any symptoms. The doctor will give you one dose of antibiotics and boom, you're cured.
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Repeat infection with chlamydia is common. You should be tested again about three months after you are treated, even if your sex partner(s) was treated.
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Effects of chlamydia treatment After you have begun your course of chlamydia treatment, you should start to notice an improvement in your symptoms within a few days. Generally, most symptoms should resolve completely within 2–4 weeks.
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Luckily, chlamydia can be cured with antibiotics. If you have had chlamydia for a long time, chlamydia can lead to a more serious problem called Pelvic Inflammatory Disease (PID), which can cause you not to be able to have babies in the future.
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Symptoms usually appear within one to three weeks after being infected and may be very mild. If not treated, chlamydia can lead to damage to the reproductive system.
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Doxycycline can settle infection symptoms fairly quickly. If you have pain passing urine and have discharge (common symptoms of Chlamydia), the drug will usually work in a week and improve symptoms. For pelvic and testicular pains, the pain will go away in as little as 2 weeks.
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When can I have sex again? If you have been treated for Chlamydia, you should not have oral, anal or vaginal sex until 7 days after your treatment is over. If your sex partners are being treated for this STD, you should wait to have sex until 7 days after they take all of their medicine.
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Both men and women can get chlamydia or gonorrhea and never develop any symptoms. With chlamydia, symptoms may not appear for a few weeks after you've been infected.