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gonorrhea or not?

I am married to my husband now for 6 years. We have one 4 year old and now I am pregnant with our second one (15 weeks along).
About 3 weeks ago I started to have this burning and strange feeling in my vagina, Feeling like I had to urinate all the time and this burning feeling when I did. Me and my husband did have sex the night before so I assumed it either was a yeast infection or an UTI because I am prone to both of them. I applied anti fungal cream but noticed it wasn't doing anything to ease the burning. So went to the doctor and gave my symptoms and gave an urine sample. He said there was only a little bit of bacteria in my urine but he gave my an antibiotic because he thought if he didn't it would become a full blown UTI...
Make a long story shot. My symptoms didn't go away after a week on antibiotics and I went back to the hospital.
They took vaginal fluid and the test came back positive for gonorrhea...
I have been with my husband for 7 years and I haven't had sex with anyone but him under these years. After A LOT of fighting, screaming and crying he still stands by his word that he hasn't cheated on me! And at this point I think he'd rather admit to me he did just to end all this fighting. I got the shot for gonorrhea and vaginal tablets. But it still does not feel like it has helped the burning at all... My husband swears he has not cheated and is willing to get tested for gonorrhea tomorrow. As he has not had any symptoms. At this point I am pretty sure he is negative.

So is it possible that he is negative and I am positive on gonorrhea? and if so how did I get it? Can it have been with me this long without him getting it? Or can my gonorrhea be a false positive and be something else like bacterial vaginosis...??? I am so lost right now I do not know what to think.
Please help me as I do not know what to believe anymore...
Thanks.
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101028 tn?1419603004
if you still have symptoms, be seen by your gyn for more testing.  
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My husbands test all came back negative... And I know I haven't had sex with someone else!
No they did not do any other testing. And it only took about 30 minutes to find out my results. I'm thinking I was positive for some bacteria and the doctor just assumed that type of bacteria surely was Gonorrhea. My symptoms still hasn't gone away!
I'm starting to doubt I ever had gonorrhea in the first place...
I'm thinking about going to a specialist and get checked again! And if I indeed had Gonorrhea there should be no bacterias left. But if I still have bacteria down there it can't have been Gonorrhea in the first place because I've been treated already! This has just turned out a big mess.
I hope to get this sorted out rather sooner than later!
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101028 tn?1419603004
you were tested for gonorrhea with your prior pregnancy. Not likely it was missed for 6 years same as you wouldn't just now have symptoms of gonorrhea after having contracted it prior to this relationship.

gram stain testing is fairly accurate but there are other infections it can falsely identify as gonorrhea. at this point no way to know since you were treated.

did they do any other testing on your vaginal secretions?

grace
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I am waiting for him to get tested and see his results... If he is negative, I do not know...As I know I have been faithful. I doubt that I've carried Gonorrhea with me for over 6 years without knowing about it and without him getting it...
I hope that he wouldn't have been that stupid to get tested and treated without telling me he had Gonorrhea especially with me pregnant and all! I know that they used the Gram stain method when testing me and I wonder how accurate the method is.? Now I'm just so baffled beyond words.
I have been crying and not sleeping. This is the time I would like to be pregnant and happy. Enjoying it. But this all seems like a big nightmare...
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If you truly have gonorrhea only way you got it was your husband or you had sex with someone else. Yes you could have a false positive. Only a positive test by him will give you a 100% answer that you did indeed have gonorrhea. A negative test by him doesn't mean he didn't have gonorrhea.

The question is if he has a negative test to you trust him and are willing to accept that you had a false positive?
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