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Gonorrhea infection
If Gonorrhea has spread to blood and joints , how can you find out? what are the symptoms?and what are the treatments for that ??
we don't treat for gonorrhea for a year.
at this point, continue to follow up with a gyn every time you have new symptoms for proper follow up.
at this point, continue to follow up with a gyn every time you have new symptoms for proper follow up.
Ok, that helps. They usually go based on symptoms such as lower abdominal pain, fever, abnormal vaginal or cervical discharge amd presence of GC or chlamydia. They can do a pelvic ultrasound and this helps them see if the fallopian tubes are enlarged or there is an abscess. A laparoscopy can be done to confirm and view pelvic organs. It might be good if you could get the ultrasound to rule it out.
mkh9
mkh9
They tested me for chlamydia as well and other stds and I don't have only gonorrhea.....just hopefully I don't have PID .How can u get tested and see if you have PID?
Ok, good at least they did test you for GC. Did they also test you for Chlamydia? That can also cause pelvic inflammatory disease as well as other problems and can be found sometimes together with GC.
mkh9
mkh9
Yes for gonorrhea but I had the infenction for about 4-5 years before I found out at this doc what I have. I live in Eastern Europe so it's kinda hard to find good doctors.In those 4-5 years I did go to 5 doctors becuase of my symptoms I knew something was going on I just didn't know what I have. One doctor even said I have nothing and they kept saying I have something else related to cold but they did no test, till I found this last doc that found that I have gonorrhea.
They did a test for more std and came out gonorrhea the first time I went there....and showed I only have that..so I just been taking pills for 1 year so far.
The last poster has a point, did the doctor actually find or tell you you have GC or do you just think you have it?
mkh9
mkh9
what testing have you had done that keeps coming back positive each time for gonorrhea?
at this point, I'd seek out a 2nd opinion elsewhere than the provider you are seeing to be honest if they think this is all gonorrhea related.
grace
at this point, I'd seek out a 2nd opinion elsewhere than the provider you are seeing to be honest if they think this is all gonorrhea related.
grace
No usually it clears up fairly soon unless it is a resistant strain. But since you weren't treated early on it may be you have do have some PID and/or abcesses that can come back. I hope not but it does sound like this doctor is doing the best he can. It usually doesn't show many symptoms in women so they ignore it and that is where they get problems with PID and so forth. I wonder if you need to take probiotics. The doctors never bring that up either, so that you won't get intestinal problems. Try to get your questions answered. Be short and concise but maybe get one or answered each time you go.
Sorry you are going through this.
mkh9
Sorry you are going through this.
mkh9
Oh and also I want to say that is nice of you that you are taking from your time and try to help people with some answeres. Not many people are willing to do that . I wish you much health and happiness.
Thank you again for your reply. Well I go to my doc every month for new treatment after I finish the antibiotics which usually takes about 2 weeks to fiinish the treatment and then I wait again 2 more weeks and then go for another test...each time I go my doc gives me different type of antibiotics. I think I took about 7-8 types already but each month I go It wont be the same antibiotic as last month since the bacterian can get used to it....she never told me about the PID but I did read online I have no idea if I have that or not......I would ask my doc more questions but my doc doesnt like to answer quesitons or be asked quesitons gets irritated but I haven;t changed the doc because I already been before to like 5 and didn;t even find what I had so I guess this doc it's a little better...I been taking antibiotics for a year now...I do not feel pain urinating no more alteast not the last few months . My doc said I am not treated yet but it's getting there. I just wonder since its been a year since I am taking treatments..is this normal to last this long??
I did have pelvic pain to cold I sitll have it but rarely I feel much better after pills....
Hey thank you very much for ur reply. I found out I have it after many years(4-5) I went to like 5 doc the first time time I had symptoms but they kept saying I have something else which showed me they didnt really search or care..some said I have nothing but I had pain when urinating and I was also hurting in cold weather.So eventually I found a doc who said what I have and started the treatment it has been a year now since I m taking pills I feel much better but I am still not 100% cure but I am getting there . I was thinking since I had this for so long it could of spread to blood and joints from what I read online I found about that online, my doc never told me about that info. I have no pain to my joints but u never know. I just want to make sure. Also I have another question : how easily is it transmited?I know its an a std and clearly sexually but I just know some situation where the whole family got it after one person from the family had it. To me it makes no sense, if its only sexually transmited. And I also gotta specify that I am from eastern europe .
Also, women can be asymptomatic at first or get pelvic pain instead of or addition to the symtoms above.
mkh9
mkh9
Hi, well you usually first get burning urination and discharge after 4-6 days after exposure. If not treated and it goes systemically you can get it in the epidimytis, arthritis, with joint pain and swelling and blood infection (fever and chills) and rarely if immunocompromised can go to the heart valve or spinal fluid. You can get tested by a urine test and also if you have a fever or joint pain or other symtoms your doctor can test you with a blood culture or for arthritis. Gonorrhoeae is getting very resistant to treatment but right now most are still sensitive to Ceftriaxone which is a injection (not pills). Your partner should be treated at the same time, if it is possible. Why do you think it could be spread ?
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I hope your doctor is following up with you on this. Women can get Pelvic Inflammatory disease (PID) in addition to both sexes getting rarely systemically.Women get abdominal pain, and fever, you can get internal abscesses, chronic pelvic pain, it can damage your fallopian tubes, cause infertility, and increased risk of ectopic pregnancy. It can also be passed to the baby when you deliver. Rarely, it can spread to the blood or joints. How long has it been since you had treatment? Did the doctor give you one or two antibiotics? If symptoms persist, I would go back to the doctor because GC is becoming very resistant. As for transmission it is only through sexual contact such as oral sex or genital sex. Your family is safe. There are no known cases of GC other than sexual contact.
Hope this helps. Let me know if I can help further.
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