the doctor diagnosed chlamydia. it will be cured within a week after taking 2 pills. permanent damage?
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Almost half of all women who get chlamydia and aren't treated by a doctor will get pelvic inflammatory disease (PID), a generic term for infection of the uterus, fallopian tubes, and/or ovaries. PID can cause scarring inside the reproductive organs, which can later cause serious complications, including chronic pelvic pain, difficulty becoming pregnant, ectopic (tubal) pregnancy, and other dangerous complications of pregnancy. Chlamydia causes 250,000 to 500,000 cases of PID every year in the U.S. [2]\n\nIn women, chlamydia may not cause any symptoms, but symptoms that may occur include: unusual vaginal bleeding or discharge, pain in the abdomen, painful sexual intercourse, fever, painful urination or the urge to urinate more frequently than usual.
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Yes, you can drink alcohol or smoke after taking azithromycin. Your sexual contacts need to be treated as well.  I always use doxycycline 100mg twice a day for 10-14 days. And drinking is not recommended with doxycycline, as it may make you vomit up the pill.  OK, I just looked it up, the way to take azithromycin is to take 1 gram of it all at once.  Then you aren't supposed to have sex for 7 days afterwards, apparantly because the azithromycin has a long half life, it stays in your blood for several days, and it may take that long to kill the chlamydia.  But, yeah, you can drink.  These cures don't always work the first time.  Sometimes you have to take another course, or a different antibiotic.
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It's absolutely possible.  Most women who are infected with Gonorrhea do not show symptoms & may never know they have it until permenant damage is done to the reproductive system, or happen to get tested for it.  Men tend to show symptoms more than women, but it's also entirely possible that a man also would be symptomless.  \n\nWith that said - symptoms will not just "pop" up after being infected for a long time.  If you're going to have symptoms - it will happen with 2 to 10 days after infection.\n\nShe and her husband absolutely must be treated - it's easy to get rid of with antibiotics.
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Chlamydia can stay hidden in women's system for a long time so there is a chance she could have had it without knowing and passed it on that way. The infection can only be passed through sexual intercourse or sexual activity.
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sounds like STD?? go to dr asap
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Go to your doctor or the local clinic.  Don't try any over the counter stuff or home remedy stuff.  Once you are treated, try not to have sex for one week so that the medicine can take its course.  Use condoms to prevent getting it again or spreading it to another person.
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only if the chlamydia made you pregnant
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I asked my doctor this question once.  She said the 3 or 7 day treatments are better because the one-dose might not be enough.  I have used them with success with a mild infection, but they still recommend holding off on sex for a few days.  Yeast infections suck, so I'd play it safe, but it's your decision.
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Assuming you're treating it with an over the counter product, you should have relief within 1-3 days.  I find the three day treatments best--the one day treatment doesn't always knock out the infection the first time, and the 7 day ones are just TOOOOOO long!
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have u recently had unprotected sex?it could be chlamidya.get checked out
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hey hun, as weird as this is, i'm going through the EXACTLY same problem! my bf and i went on a break, and we both met other people, then we got back together, and I was noticing some weird stuff about my body, and get checked, and he did too just in case, he had Chlamydia and I had some Fungus infection.  The doc gave him Chlamydia anit biotics..and mine doc gave me the same things, just in case, as well is a treatment for my infection.  so, it IS possible for you to not get it from him, especially cause me and my bf had sex without a condom and, i still didn't get it.weird eh? but yes, it's possible..just let your doc know you want the meds for chlamydia..hope i could help!
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Am I the only person from the medical field answering this question? Must be.\n\nChlamydia, can in fact lay dormant. Most common in men do these things stay hidden. However It is a BACTERIA... when a woman is pregnant her hormones are inbalanced and she coudl have easily fell prey to this bacteria. It has happened before...\n\n"Chlamydia is known as a "silent" disease because about three quarters of infected women and about half of infected men have no symptoms." \n\nYou wont find the answer to your problems here though...
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go to the Dr. and get an antibiotic.  The pills will clear you up in less than 4 days.
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Since this question is in Women's health, I'll assume you are female. Chlamydia can greatly reduce fertility in men. It can, if untreated, be very serious in women too and lead eventually to infertility. Go here for straight answers that are clear.\nhttp://www.engenderhealth.org/wh/inf/dchl.html
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Chlamydia is right now the most common STD in the United States (1 million new cases per year).  It will need to be diagnosed by a physician first (any family practice, internal medicine dr. will do) who will then prescribe an antibiotic (azithromycin, doxycycline or some derivitive thereof).  Take the meds exactly as prescribed and don't wait to get treated.  Chlamydia can cause PID in women (a serious infection that can cause infertility) as well as serious infections in men.
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Depends on which STD she has. If it's chlamydia, gonnorhea, trichonomosis, or syphilis then she needs to get treated. These can be completely gotten rid of.\n\nHPV (genital warts) Depending on the strain, may go away on its own or may lurk inside her cells. The good news is that 75% of women have it but only 1% or so go on to develop cervical cancer and die. The bad news is that that's a lot of women... especially when you think that the number includes virgins and monogamous women of all ages. If this is what she has she can get vaccinated and you can use condoms... but that's no guarantee. You can still get the virus. It won't have much of an effect on you (besides an ugly wart that you'll get burned off) but then it will be lurking inside you, if it's the nasty strain your next girlfriend will be at risk for cervical cancer.\n\nHepatitis B: If she's chronically infected or a healthy carrier (tests positive for hepatitis B surface antigen) it will probably never be safe. On the other hand if she was infected, cleared the disease and only has antibodies against the virus, then you should be safe. I would recommend that you get vaccinated.\n\nHepatitis C: If she cleared the disease completely you're safe. If she's chronically ill, but doesn't have symptoms you're at a low risk from sex. (About a 1% chance each year you're with her) But don't share needles with her or I'll be seeing you in the liver transplant clinic in 20 years.\n\nHerpes: don't even waste your time testing. She can take acyclovir and hold down the outbreaks. But the virus is in there lurking and people periodically become infectious even without having a visible sore.\n\nHIV: Perhaps someone could be made non-infectious if you could get their virus count down to zero. But the virus is still in there lurking. (Notice the trend here?) condoms and tests every six months or year. but no guarantees.
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NO!!!   It should have cleared up within a few days!  See the doctor.