If chlamydia treatment fails twice, it may be due to antibacterial resistance, lack of adherence to a treatment regimen, or issues with absorbing antibiotics into the body. It is also common to get chlamydia more than once, so it may be a repeat infection rather than treatment failure.
You may have been re-infected with chlamydia if you had unprotected sex with an infected or partially treated partner. Rarely, the infection is resistant to a particular antibiotic treatment and therefore does not clear.
The only way that chlamydia would stay in your body after you started treatment was if you didn't take all of the prescribed medicine. That's why it's important to take all of it, even if symptoms go away before you finish the medication.
No, Chlamydia infections will not go away on their own. In some cases, a Chlamydia infection can be fought off by the body's immune system, but these cases are rare and should not influence anyone's decisions to get tested or treated.
Being tested means that you can be treated, and the proper treatment will help clear up a chlamydial infection in a matter of weeks. 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.
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.
You can get infected again. If you still have symptoms after treatment, they are probably from another chlamydia infection rather than from a failed treatment.
Tetracyclines are effective treatment for genital chlamydial infections, including those affecting the accessory genital glands. Two 7-day courses of lymecycline, separated by a 10-day interval, eradicated C. trachomatis from 26 men with prostatitis and genital chlamydial infection.
Other STDs, such as syphilis and chlamydia, have shown early signs of antibiotic resistance. The threat prompted the World Health Organization last year to release new guidelines for treating the three STDs.
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.
With treatment, chlamydia should go away within a week or two, however, the test may remain positive for 4 weeks after treatment. It's important to take all antibiotics to fight the infection. Don't have sex during treatment, or you could get reinfected.
Most people who have chlamydia don't notice any symptoms.
For some people they don't develop until many months later. Sometimes the symptoms can disappear after a few days. Even if the symptoms disappear you may still have the infection and be able to pass it on.
If any symptoms persist, such as pelvic pain or pain during sex, please return to the clinic as further treatment or investigations may be necessary. If you are diagnosed with chlamydia you may need to inform anyone you have had sex with within the last six months as they may also be infected.
Note that untreated chlamydia will stick around for multiple years or longer and have long-term effects on your health.
What is the best medication for chlamydia? Both the Worldwide Health Organization (WHO) and Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) recommend either azithromycin or doxycycline as first-line treatments for chlamydia. Though both are effective, the CDC notes that doxycycline may be slightly more effective.
Chlamydial infection occasionally persists due to treatment failure, but repeat positivity upon retesting is most often due to reinfection from an untreated sexual partner or an infected new partner [4, 5].
If you're taking doxycycline for any other infection, tell your doctor if you do not start feeling better after 3 days. Also tell them if, at any time, you start to feel worse.
Like other Chlamydia species, the C. trachomatis life cycle consists of two morphologically distinct life stages: elementary bodies and reticulate bodies. Elementary bodies are spore-like and infectious, whereas reticulate bodies are in the replicative stage and are seen only within host cells.
They lack several metabolic and biosynthetic pathways and depend on the host cell for intermediates, including ATP. Chlamydiae exist as two stages: (1) infectious particles called elementary bodies and (2) intracytoplasmic, reproductive forms called reticulate bodies.
Most people with chlamydia have no symptoms, which makes it very easy to spread. You can have the infection for many months or years without knowing it.
Despite this, a person with chlamydia can have frequent sex without the infection passing to their partner. If a person takes a test too soon after exposure, they may have a false-negative result. They may need to repeat the test at a later date to get an accurate result.
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).
Chlamydial reinfections are very common—as many as 1 in 5 people will have a repeat infection with chlamydia within the first few months after they are treated for their initial infection.