How long does it takes chlamydia to go away?

Answer 1

This question has three aspects:

How long do you take medication to cure chlamydia?

Length of treatment depends on the medication and the clinical situation. For uncomplicated chlamydia, the first-choice treatments are azithromycin 1 gram in a single dose (one time treatment) or doxycycline 100 mg twice daily for seven days.

When can you count on the germ being cleared after treatment?

If you took the single-dose treatment with azithromycin, the CDC recommendations are to abstain from oral, anal, and vaginal sex, even with a condom, until seven days has passed. If you took a seven-day treatment, you can consider yourself cured when the treatment is complete. Do not have any kind of sex, even with a condom, until both you and all partners have completed the seven days.

Repeat infection with chlamydia is common. Persons whose sex partners have not been appropriately treated are at high risk for re-infection. Having multiple chlamydial infections increases a woman's risk of serious reproductive health complications, including pelvic inflammatory disease and ectopic pregnancy. Women and men with chlamydia should be retested about three months after treatment of an initial infection, regardless of whether they believe that their sex partners were successfully treated.

When can you prove you're cured by getting retested?

Because of the way that the most commonly-used chlamydia tests work, your test will still be positive for up to three weeks after treatment, even if you are not contagious. However, the CDC does not recommend immediate retesting to prove the treatment worked; treatment is effective enough that test of cure is not needed. However, retesting to check for reinfection, as noted above, is recommended for all patients, regardless of treatment.
Chlamydia can stay in your system for seven days after the single-dose treatment, or during the seven days required for other treatment. You should abstain from oral, anal, and vaginal sex during this time so you are not reinfected.

Answer 2

Chlamydia is curable no matter how long you've had it, although damage caused by chlamydia will not be reversed by treatment. You should get treated for chlamydia as soon as you know you're infected.

Answer 3

How long the medicine remains in your system depends on the medicine. But usually, patients who ask this question are asking if it's OK if they had sex before seven days had passed since both partners were treated. It's not OK -- if you did this, you need to repeat treatment.

Answer 4

Chlamydia does not go away without treatment. Untreated, women frequently develop pelvic inflammatory disease (PID). PID can cause infertility (not being able to get pregnant), chronic pelvic pain, tubal pregnancies, and the continued spread of the disease. In men, untreated chlamydia can cause urethral infection and complications such as swollen and tender testicles.

Answer 5

Get treatment as soon as you know you are infected; and get tested regularly if you are sexually active with multiple partners.