is chlamydia gone once treated?
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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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Repeat infection with chlamydia is common. You should be tested again about three months after you are treated, even if your sex partner(s) was treated.
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Home remedies do exist but they aren't proven. Antibiotics are the only known way to cure chlamydia. Prompt treatment can help you avoid serious complications.
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If a person's symptoms continue for more than a few days after receiving treatment, he or she should return to a health care provider to be reevaluated. Repeat infection with chlamydia is common. Women whose sex partners have not been appropriately treated are at high risk for re-infection.
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If you have pain passing urine and have discharge (common symptoms of Chlamydia), the drug will usually work in a week and improve symptoms. For pelvic and testicular pains, the pain will go away in as little as 2 weeks. For menstrual problems, taking Doxycycline will improve symptoms by the next menstrual cycle.
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If I have chlamydia, what does that mean for my partner? Your partner may have chlamydia, too. Tell your recent sex partners, so they can get tested and treated. Avoid having sex until seven days after you've both started your treatment, so you don't re-infect each other.
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Persons being treated for chlamydia should not have sexual intercourse for seven days after single dose therapy (azrithromycin) or until completion of all seven days of antibiotics (doxycycline). Patients can be re-infected if their sex partners are not treated.
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If you do have sex less than seven days after taking medicine, be sure to use a condom. It takes seven days for the medicine to cure chlamydia. During that time, you could still pass this infection on to a sex partner.
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It takes seven days for the medicine to cure chlamydia. During that time, you could still pass this infection on to a sex partner.
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After beginning treatment, most physicians suggest that patients with uncomplicated chlamydial infections (cervicitis, urethritis, and/or proctitis) are no longer contagious after about seven days. Tests that detect chlamydia in the urine and in other secretions are available.
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The single dose azithromycin regime has been shown to be ineffective at treating rectal chlamydia. This is important as if the infection is not properly treated, chlamydia may remain in the rectum, and act as a reservoir for further infections.
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Chlamydia is treated with antibiotics. If you take the treatment according to instructions, it's over 95% effective at treating chlamydia. You'll be given a course of antibiotics for 3 or 7 days or sometimes up to two weeks.
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NOTE: Pregnant women found to have chlamydial infection should have a test-of-cure three to four weeks after treatment and then be retested within three months.
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Being successfully treated for chlamydia, gonorrhea, or another STD does not mean that you can't get it again. In fact, many people become infected with STDs over and over again because they continue to have unprotected sex with partners who have untreated STDs.
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If you take the treatment according to instructions, it's over 95% effective at treating chlamydia. You'll be given a course of antibiotics for 3 or 7 days or sometimes up to two weeks. If there's a high chance you have chlamydia, treatment may be started before the results of the test are back.
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When can I have sex again? If you have been treated for Chlamydia, you should not have oral, anal or vaginal sex until 7 days after your treatment is over. If your sex partners are being treated for this STD, you should wait to have sex until 7 days after they take all of their medicine.
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Luckily, chlamydia can be cured with antibiotics. If you have had chlamydia for a long time, chlamydia can lead to a more serious problem called Pelvic Inflammatory Disease (PID), which can cause you not to be able to have babies in the future.