What happens to your body when you have chlamydia?

If left untreated, chlamydia can cause pelvic inflammatory disease in women, which can lead to chronic pain and infertility. In men, untreated chlamydia can cause pain and swelling in one or both testicles. If detected early, chlamydia may be treated with a single dose of antibiotics.

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How does chlamydia affect the body?

Chlamydia is a common STD that can cause infection among both men and women. It can cause permanent damage to a woman's reproductive system. This can make it difficult or impossible to get pregnant later. Chlamydia can also cause a potentially fatal ectopic pregnancy (pregnancy that occurs outside the womb).

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How long does it take chlamydia to mess up your body?

If you do get symptoms, these usually appear between 1 and 3 weeks after having unprotected sex with an infected person. For some people they don't develop until many months later. Sometimes the symptoms can disappear after a few days.

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What happens if you have chlamydia for too long?

In women, chlamydia can spread to the womb, ovaries or fallopian tubes. This can cause a condition called pelvic inflammatory disease (PID). PID can cause a number of serious problems, such as: difficulty getting pregnant or infertility.

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How long does chlamydia last if untreated?

Without medical intervention, a chlamydia infection can persist for years if gone unnoticed [1].

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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 4 years 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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Does chlamydia make you tired?

In the later stages of Gonorrhea and Chlamydia, people often complain about being extremely tired. Along with these infections, fatigue can also be caused by Hepatitis A, B, or C. Associating fatigue with having a busy lifestyle is not a good idea as it can be a symptom of a Sexually Transmitted Disease.

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What happens if you don't treat chlamydia?

Chlamydia can be cured with antibiotics from a health care provider. 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 do I know I got chlamydia?

Signs and symptoms of Chlamydia trachomatis infection can include:
  1. Painful urination.
  2. Vaginal discharge in women.
  3. Discharge from the penis in men.
  4. Painful sexual intercourse in women.
  5. Bleeding between periods and after sex in women.
  6. Testicular pain in men.

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Can chlamydia heal on its own?

Can chlamydia go away without treatment? It can, but it can take a long time. If you delay seeking treatment you risk the infection causing long-term damage and you may still be able to pass the infection on to someone else.

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Do you live with chlamydia forever?

Nope! Chlamydia is easily cured with antibiotics. Chlamydia is a bacterial infection (like strep throat or an ear infection), which means that once you've been treated and tested negative for it (to make sure the antibiotics worked), it's gone.

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Can chlamydia be spread through kissing?

Chlamydia isn't spread through casual contact, so you CAN'T get chlamydia from sharing food or drinks, kissing, hugging, holding hands, coughing, sneezing, or sitting on the toilet. Using condoms and/or dental dams every time you have sex is the best way to help prevent chlamydia.

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How did chlamydia start?

The origins of both sexually transmitted and ocular C. trachomatis are unclear, but it seems likely that they evolved with humans and shared a common ancestor with environmental chlamydiae some 700 million years ago. Subsequently, evolution within mammalian cells has been accompanied by radical reduction in the C.

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Do you feel sick with chlamydia?

Discomfort when you urinate and when you have sex. Irritation or itching around your genitals. 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.

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Can chlamydia give you back pain?

Low back pain

In addition to lower abdominal pain, chlamydia can also cause lower back pain. This pain may feel similar to the lower back pain that's associated with urinary tract infections.

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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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Why do I keep getting chlamydia?

There are a few reasons why you might contract chlamydia a second time: The initial infection wasn't cured because the course of antibiotics wasn't completed as directed. A sexual partner transmitted chlamydia to you. You used a sex toy that was contaminated with chlamydia.

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How do men get chlamydia?

Chlamydia infection in males is usually an infection of the urethra. The urethra is the tube that drains urine from the bladder. It passes through the penis. This type of infection is passed from one person to another during sexual contact.

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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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Are there different stages of chlamydia?

Chlamydiae exist as two stages: (1) infectious particles called elementary bodies and (2) intracytoplasmic, reproductive forms called reticulate bodies.

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What happens if chlamydia is untreated for 4 months?

If left untreated, chlamydia can cause pelvic inflammatory disease in women, which can lead to chronic pain and infertility. In men, untreated chlamydia can cause pain and swelling in one or both testicles. If detected early, chlamydia may be treated with a single dose of antibiotics.

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Can chlamydia turn into gonorrhea?

Can chlamydia turn into gonorrhea? No. Chlamydia and gonorrhea are different STIs caused by different bacteria. Though one infection cannot turn into another, people with one infection are more at risk for developing the other.

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Why wait 7 days after chlamydia treatment?

Persons with chlamydia should abstain from sexual activity for 7 days after single dose antibiotics or until completion of a 7-day course of antibiotics, to prevent spreading the infection to partners. It is important to take all of the medication prescribed to cure chlamydia.

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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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