If you had chlamydia for a long period, you may have experienced complications of chlamydia such as pelvic inflammatory disease or epididymitis. Most people with chlamydia do not experience long-term complications. Talk to your health care provider for advice specific to your situation.
Yes, chlamydia's worst trait is that in can be present with no symptoms for along time. After being present for a long time, serious effects , like pelvic inflammatory disease may result.
Chlamydia is most commonly spread by sexual contact; vaginal sex, anal sex, and oral sex.
Sexually active persons should get checked for chlamydia annually.
Chlamydia can be treated and cured in a short time with antibiotics.
It is possible, but not likely. If signs are to occur, it is usually within a few weeks after infection.
It is possible, but not likely.
Yes, chlamydia symptoms can appear after five years, but it's not very likely.
Although you can have chlamydia without having symptoms, it doesn't stay dormant. It's detectable through testing even if you don't have symptoms.
Studies show that adults can have chlamydia for years without any symptoms. It is possible to have a long-term infection without getting pain or discharge. In women, the rate of chlamydia without symptoms may be as high as 70%. It is believed that at least 50% of men with chlamydia may have no symptoms.A baby who gets chlamydia from the mother during birth can also have chlamydia for years without symptoms.But the infection is not "dormant", it can cause damage even without causing symptoms. Women who are later diagnosed with tubal infertility or ectopic pregnancy are three times more likely to have antibodies showing prior exposure to chlamydia, which suggests that they may have had damage to the tubes without having symptoms of pain.It is possible, but usually the symptoms will show up within several weeks.Virtually, this is highly unlikely.
Yes; it is developing into PID.
You can have chlamydia for years without knowing, but it can be spread during this time. Each time you have sex, there is about a 40% chance of transmitting chlamydia. The chances of having sex ten times without transmitting the infection are very small -- about 6 in 1000.It's important to remember, though, that the person who gets chlamydia may have no symptoms either. In women, 80-90% have no symptoms, and half of men don't have symptoms. Your health care provider can't tell you how long you've had chlamydia. It's not unusual for someone to enter a relationship with chlamydia, and for neither partner to know they're infected until they are screened.For that reason, you should get tested for STDs whenever you have a new partner.Yes, you can get chlamydia, or first get chlamydia symptoms, four months after your partner did.
You shouldn't go at all. You need to make an appointment with your doctor as soon as possible before it spread or gets worse.
Chlamydia does not remain "dormant." A person can have chlamydia for years without having symptoms, but the infection is active during that time, and can be transmitted and can cause damage, even if the patient doesn't notice any pain, discharge, or unusual symptoms.
You can have PID from chlamydia without having significant symptoms. Detection is difficult, but some PID can be detected by physical exam. Talk to your health care provider for advice specific for your situation.
Because chlamydia testing was not possible until the mid-20th century, it's not possible to know how much sooner chlamydia started in the UK. Chlamydia has been known for thousands of years.
Yes, but it would be very - very - VERY rare. Chlamydia does serious damage quick, so having it for "years" without having severe side effects is really not likely.
Chlamydia is at epidemic level because you can have it and transmit it without knowing; because improved programs for screening mean better case finding; and because people have more sexual partners than they did 50 years ago.
You would have known if you had it for 20 years. I have a friend that had chlamydia and she knew that she had it about 1-2 weeks after getting it. She started to have all kinds of symptoms down there that I won't mention then she went to the doctor and they found out she had chlamydia. So by what I have learned from her, you could not have had it for 20 years with out knowing.