what happens if you don't get stds treated?
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Left untreated, chlamydia and gonorrhea can cause serious health problems like PID, infertility, and potential deadly ectopic pregnancy. Also, without treatment, your partner might pass the STD back to you.
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If left untreated, gonorrhea and chlamydia can cause serious permanent damage, including infertility (unable to get pregnant and have children). Informing your partners gives them the opportunity to get immediate testing, and if necessary, receive treatment.
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Many people with chlamydia and gonorrhoea don't have any symptoms at all. Both can lead to infertility in men and women if they are not treated. The risk of infertility is lower in both conditions if they are treated early. The more times you have them, the more likely you are to have problems.
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Chlamydia is a common sexually transmitted infection (STI) caused by bacteria. The infection often doesn't cause any symptoms. Even if you don't have symptoms, chlamydia needs to be treated. Chlamydia is curable with antibiotics.
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Not necessarily. Many STDs can stay hidden with no symptoms for years. So, while your partner may have given it to you, he or she may have had it before they were with you. The most important thing is for both of you to get tested and treated at the same time so you don't re-infect each other.
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If untreated, chlamydia can develop into serious reproductive and other health problems with both short-term and long-term effects. Like the disease itself, the damage is often “silent.” In women, untreated infection can cause pelvic inflammatory disease (PID).
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Having an STD causes the skin to break down and can increase the risk of getting HIV, or passing HIV to others if an HIV-infected person has an STD. STDs also can cause problems of their own, which can range from minor and annoying in nature to serious and life-threatening.
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Viruses such as HIV, genital herpes, human papillomavirus, hepatitis, and cytomegalovirus cause STDs/STIs that cannot be cured.
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Whether an infection is viral or bacterial, the infection can have long-term effects on the body, such as infertility or sterility, and can leave the body vulnerable to more serious diseases, such as HIV. Ultimately, untreated STDs/STIs can affect numerous organ systems in the body.
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Bacterial STDs can be cured with antibiotics if treatment begins early enough. Viral STDs cannot be cured, but you can manage symptoms with medications. There is a vaccine against hepatitis B, but it will not help if you already have the disease.
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Early and rapid diagnosis of STDs increases the chance to limit effects of the disease. Left untreated, STDs, such as gonorrhea, syphilis, chlamydia, genital herpes, and human papillomavirus, can lead to devastating and sometimes long-term complications.
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If left untreated, vaginal candidiasis will most likely get worse, causing itching, redness, and inflammation in the area surrounding your vagina. This may lead to a skin infection if the inflamed area becomes cracked, or if continual scratching creates open or raw areas.
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Chlamydia is a sexually transmitted infection (STI) caused by a bacteria called chlamydia trachomatis. Usually it doesn't cause any symptoms and can be easily treated with antibiotics. However, if it isn't treated early it can spread to other parts of your body and lead to long-term health problems.
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A person can get some STDs, like herpes or genital warts, through skin-to-skin contact with an infected area or sore. Another myth about STDs is that you can't get them if you have oral or anal sex.
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Complications of treatment Without treatment, your syphilis will likely continue to progress. It can be 10 or 20 years before you experience the worst effects. Eventually, untreated syphilis can lead to damage to the brain, eyes, heart, nerves, bones, joints, and liver.
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Anyone who is sexually active can get chlamydia, but the infection is more common in some groups, including young people and gay men. If left untreated, the infection can cause complications, including infertility in women and reduced fertility in men. It can increase the likelihood of passing on HIV.
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Even if you both have never had sex, some people can get infections such as HIV, hepatitis or herpes through ways other than sex and then spread these infections to you during sexual activity. This means that even if someone is a virgin, there is a chance they could still give you a STI.