How long can you live with chlamydia without knowing?

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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Can you have chlamydia without knowing for years?

Young, sexually active females need testing every year. 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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What happens if chlamydia goes untreated for 2 years?

However, if chlamydia is left untreated, it can cause permanent damage. Your risk of getting other STIs, like gonorrhea or HIV, increases. In males, untreated chlamydia can lead to sterility (inability to make sperm).

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How long can chlamydia live untreated?

On the other hand, if you don't get tested or don't see a healthcare provider for treatment, chlamydia can live in the body for weeks, months, or even years without being detected. This can lead to long-term complications, including infertility.

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What is late stage chlamydia?

Late-stage chlamydia refers to an infection that has spread to other parts of the body. For example, it may have spread to the cervix (cervicitis), testicular tubes (epididymitis), eyes (conjunctivitis), or throat (pharyngitis), causing inflammation and pain.

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Can you have chlamydia for 10 years?

How long can you have chlamydia for? An untreated chlamydia infection can persist for several years. Although this goes for both men and women, it is believed that men are less likely to carry the bacteria for several years. If you remain infected for a long time you have an increased risk of complications.

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How long does it take for chlamydia to damage your reproductive system?

There is no clear timeline on how long it may take for this to occur - while one study suggests that after exposure to the bacteria, it can take a few weeks for PID to develop, the NHS estimates that 1 in 10 women with untreated chlamydia could go on to develop PID within a year.

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Can untreated chlamydia cause death?

Chlamydia isn't directly fatal, but if left untreated, it can lead to a number of serious complications. In women, these complications include inflammation of sexual organs (i.e. cervix, urethra, lining of the uterus, uterus, fallopian tubes, and pelvis), infertility, and chronic pelvic pain.

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Can the body heal itself from chlamydia?

It is highly unlikely for chlamydia to go away on its own. Although the symptoms may subside temporarily, the infection may persist in the body in the absence of treatment (subclinical infection). It is important to seek diagnosis and timely treatment to get rid of the infection.

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Can chlamydia show up 20 years later?

Although some symptoms can appear within weeks of contact, there have been reports of chlamydia remaining dormant for over twenty years. If you have had recent sexual contact and wonder about chlamydia infections, don't hesitate to test.

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Can you have chlamydia for 6 years and not know?

“You could have chlamydia for years and not know it,” Ravi says. “That's one of the scariest parts about it-people will say 'I haven't had sex in a long time' and I have to explain that they won't always have symptoms.”

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How can you tell if a man has chlamydia?

Chlamydia symptoms in men
  • Small amounts of clear or cloudy discharge from the tip of your penis.
  • Painful urination.
  • Burning and itching around the opening of your penis.
  • Pain and swelling around your testicles.

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How do you flush out chlamydia?

The recommended treatment for chlamydia is a single dose of azithromycin 1 gram (g) taken orally or doxycycline 100 milligrams (mg) taken orally twice a day for 7 days. Alternative chlamydia treatments include: erythromycin base 500 mg taken 4 times a day for 7 days.

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Can chlamydia make you feel sick?

If the infection spreads, you might get lower abdominal pain, pain during sex, nausea, or fever. The majority of chlamydial infections in men do not cause any symptoms. You can get chlamydia in the urethra (inside the penis), rectum, or throat. You may not notice any symptoms.

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Can I sue someone for giving me chlamydia?

According to the court of law, you cannot file a lawsuit against someone for every type of STD or STI. But most severe STDs like HIV/AIDs let you sue someone and get compensation for the damages caused to your physical well-being and financial health.

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How much damage can chlamydia do in a year?

However if the infection is left untreated in women it can spread into the uterus or fallopian tubes and cause pelvic inflammatory disease (PID). Pelvic inflammatory disease can result in serious complications, including infertility, ectopic pregnancy and long-term abdominal pain.

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How long can chlamydia be dormant in a female?

Chlamydia can lie dormant for months or years and it is often detected through screening and routine sexual health testing. If symptoms do develop, it usually takes 1-3 weeks after exposure to notice signs.

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Is chlamydia a big deal?

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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What are 5 symptoms of chlamydia?

Symptoms of chlamydia can appear in both men and women, including:
  • pain or burning while peeing.
  • pain during sex.
  • lower belly pain.
  • abnormal vaginal discharge (may be yellowish and have a strong smell)
  • bleeding between periods.
  • pus or a watery/milky discharge from the penis.
  • swollen or tender testicles.

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Can you pass chlamydia through saliva?

You can't transmit chlamydia through kissing, sharing drinking glasses, or hugging. However, you can transmit the disease: through vaginal, oral, or anal sex without a condom or other barrier method with someone who has the disease. to your baby through childbirth if you're pregnant.

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What not to do while on chlamydia treatment?

Even if your partner is taking treatment at the same time as you, we still recommend you do not have sex until after 7 days. The treatment won't work if someone is re-exposed to chlamydia and/or gonorrhea within those 7 days.

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How long can men carry chlamydia?

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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How did I get chlamydia and my partner didn t?

As most people do not have symptoms, it is possible the person (who tested positive) could have had chlamydia/gonorrhea from a previous relationship, and has not passed it to their partner yet. It is never 100% that you will pass an STI when you have sex.

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Can you see chlamydia in sperm?

Of those patients positive for C. trachomatis in the 11 studies, 56% could be detected in both semen and urine, 20% only in urine and 23% only in semen.

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