Could it be something else?

I have been diagnosed with chlamydia twice since within the last year. I have taken the pills and have been retested and both times after the pills I have became negative... and my boyfriend has done the same.. except for being retested. I know he isnt sleeping with anyone else, could it be something else besides chlamydia?

[Bella519]

From what I have heard it can stay  dormit in women. My sister for instance, she got tested all the time because her boyfriend was tested positive for chlamydia, but yet hers was always negative, then a year later it showed up positive, and she took the pills as before, then it was gone, her nor her boyfriend tested positive for it again.

[wondering85]

thank you. could it be dormant in men too?

[auntiejessi]

I'd wonder about this.  Either someone is getting some false results, or someone is getting re-infected.

Since you've had it before, you need to be checked again if you suspect that you have had it before.  If its positive now, either your bf never was cured (which I doubt, or you would have been positive on the retests if you'd had sex with him), or someone is getting re-infected by sleeping with someone else.

It doesn't stay dormant, by the way.  Its an active infection and will show on tests.  You might not always have symptoms, but it would still show on a test.

Aj