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I used someones guages who had chlamydia at the time she used them

Ok so here is my problem. Yesterday I used my girlfriends old gauges to gauge my ears. Now about 8-9 months ago me and her were both tested and found out we had chlamydia and were treated for it. Is their ANY possibility that I could of gotten chlamydia from using those gauges? Take notice that she had used those gauges herself when she had chlamydia and when you gauge your ears blood gets out and gets on the gauges. Before I used her gauges she sterilized them by putting peroxide on a tissue and rubbing them down but how efficient is that?

Please someone give me some help
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Basically there these kind of plugs that you put through your ear lobe and it stretches them out and it rips the tissue of ur earlobe and it takes a while for it to heal up and yea blood is involved so old blood that could have been infected with chlamydia getting into my system can't get me chlamydia?
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101028 tn?1419603004
well when I googled gauages it came up ear plugs. perhaps you should better describe what a guage is because even google didn't help me figure out what  they are.
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There not earplugs their gauges and blood does get on them im just concerned
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101028 tn?1419603004
chlamydia is not a blood borne infection.

anything on her ear plugs was dried and not an issue unless she literally took them out of her ears and put them into yours.  usually just cleaning them with soap and water or even rubbing alcohol is fine.  I'm not sure why there would be blood on her ear plugs?

grace
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Just wanted to make sure cause her blood could of still gotten into my open wound in my ear
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1318465 tn?1614894302
Your welcome.

Yeah you don't need to be tested again for chlamydia for wearing you gf's ear gagues.

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Ok thanks disregard my explanation then
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What im saying is she had chlamydia at the time she wore those gauges and blood has been on those gauges we got treated but the gauges can still have blood particles on them and I used the gauges on my ears and created a open wound.

Idk i over think a lot of things way too much but I guess it doesn't hurt I still plan on getting tested this week
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1318465 tn?1614894302
Hi again,

I just realized what you are asking.  Disregard my statement 1) above.

You have NO risk from wearing ear-gauges from a chlamydia positive person who used them 8 - 9 months ago.

My statements 2) and 3) are still valid.
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1318465 tn?1614894302
Hi

1) why would you think your girlfriend is infected with chlamydia again?

2) the answer to your main question is no.
3) the anser to your question about peroxide is you shouldn't worry about it, as chlamydia is NOT transmittable through ears or ear wax/ear wax&blood.  You have to have sex to get chlamydia.

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