Roxana C
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Tapestry6
Get a check up at the doctors office or go to a clinic, they have to test you.
And its chlamydia a very highly contagious 'social disease' higher than gonorrhea or syphilis.
gangadharan_nair
2/3 of women and 1/2 of men who have chlamydia, have no symptoms at all; others have symptoms so mild they aren't noticeable.
Genevieve P
I'm a doctor. Most often people who have chlamydia will not display any symptoms. Chlamydia is the one STD where more often then not you don't even know that you have it. Some people may experience a discharge that could be white to yellow in colour. However like i said that chances are you wont have any symptoms. If you think that you may have this STD I advise you to go see your doctor. Or if you have an STD clinic where you live call them. Usually they will just tell you come in right away. What they do is take a swab from the vagina and test it to see if you have chlamydia, but they will treat you for chlamydia while you are there. They will give you four pills to swallow the treatment is harmless so it doesn't hurt you to take the pills even if you don't have it. Also your whoever sees you for this is going to ask you some questions. Questions such as why do think you have it? who is the last person you had sex with? How long have you been sexually active? When engaging in sexually activity is condoms normally used? Don't be afraid to answer these questions. They are routine questions and anyone being treated for an STD is asked these questions. Hope this helps you.
B.J. C
There is only 1 sure way to know if you have chlamydia and that is to get tested.
Yes, some of the symptoms of chlamydia do overlap with other vaginal infections.
60% of those with vaginas and 40% of those with penises who have chlamydia have NO SYMPTOMS.
For the other 40/60%, symptoms may include just ONE or more of any of the following:
In those with Vaginas:
-most often there are no symptoms (60%)
-vaginal discharge
-Dysuria (painful urination)
-Lower abdominal pain
-Abnormal vaginal bleeding
-Dyspareunia (it hurts when you have sex)
-Conjunctivitis (kinda gross, but chlamydia can get in your eye and cause a variety of types of pink eye)
-Proctitis (inflammation of the anus and rectum...if you got chlamydia from anal sex then it may present with this, BUT in most cases chlamydia infections in this region remain silent and cause no symptoms)
In those with Penises:
-Often asymptomatic (NO SYMPTOMS) 40% !
-Urethral discharge (urethral = pee-hole, if you get my drift)
-Urethral itch (horrible symptom...you can't really scratch it....)
-Dysuria (it hurts to pee)
-Testicular Pain (this is not a symptom to joke about. there are a variety of conditions, serious conditions, that can present with unexplainable significant testicular pain.........it's ALWAYS worth a trip to the ER..that's my opinion. And for my trans friends who are using hormones, even mild testicular pain should be checked out.
-Conjunctivitis (see above)
-Proctitis (see above)
And in the circumstances involving neonates and infants:
-Conjunctivitis (eye infection) in the newborn (Mother to Child Transmission)
--Chlamydia Pneumonia in infants less than 6 months of age (Mother to Child Transmission with a later onset)
And I seem to be in the mood to talk about Chlamydia again, so I'll mention some of the long term complications that may develop:
In those with Vaginas:
-Pelvic Inflmmatory Disease (check it out on Wiki..important information for all sexually active people who have vaginas)
-ectopic pregnancy (where the newly formed embryo from when the sperm and egg integrate doesn't make it to the uterine wall where it needs to be and implants on the fallopian tube walls (most cases) which either resolves itself and leaves the body with vaginal bleeding or emplants, begins to try to grow and a serious medical emergency occurs if the fallopian tubes are ruptured for both mother and late stage embryo)
-Infertility
-Chronic Pelvic Pain (not a nice complication)
-Reiter Syndrome (wiki it....check out the pneumonic!....but the fact that Chlamydia can cause Arthritis....it's crazy)
In Males:
-Epididymo-orchitis (pain, inflammation, swelling, and infection of the tube connecting the testicles to the urethra (Epididymus) (and an important part of the ejaculation process......) and same goes for the testicles (orchitis)
-Reiter Syndrome (see above)
That's why it makes sense to use a condom!!!!
That's why it makes sense to get screened regularly for these infections if you are sexually active, especially if you are having unsafe sex! and especially if you have strange symptoms in the genital region.
I should mention that some of the above conditions are very rare, I just included all of the possibilities.
Orignal From: How do you know if you have clamidia?
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