Recovering from chlamydia

[candidone]

There is a lack of information out there regarding the timeline for recovering from chlamydia.  I was given 4x 250 mg of Co-Azithromycin (and 400 mg of Suprax for the possibility of gonorrhea) four days ago.  What should I now expect in terms of symptom reduction?  Still a slight burning?  Discharging?  Cramps, or a feeling of prostate pressure?  If anyone knows from experience or first hand observation, please let me know.  Thank you.

[Vance2335]

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[a_curious_guy]

So, how did the problem go? Did you get any recovery soon? Or maybe you had to receive a new treatment/diagnosis?

Please comment, I think I am suffering the same problem as you. Could you help me with some info?

Thanks in advance

[a_curious_guy]

So, how did the problem go? Did you get any recovery soon? Or maybe you had to receive a new treatment/diagnosis?

Please comment

[MrJonze]

im a male it's been two weeks since I was treated for chlamydia and I am still having dischrge from penis. It has gotten better but its still there. What is going on??

[candidone]

Thank you Aj, my thoughts exactly.

[auntiejessi]

It could be just healing.  Make sure to drink plenty of water, and if its not better in a few days, give your doctor a call.

Aj

[candidone]

So it's been two weeks now to the day, and I still have a slight burning while urinating and I THINK I feel a discharge throughout the day, although its hardly noticeable to the eye when I look, if at all.

After two weeks, it's been a while since treatment and I'm starting to get concerned again.  Ejaculating leaves a slight tingle as well.  I wonder if my urethra is still just healing.  Thoughts?

[auntiejessi]

Oh good - at least you know now.  :)

And I'm glad you are feeling better.

Aj

[candidone]

Oh, also, chlamydia was finally confirmed on the sixth day after sample collection.

[candidone]

Day 10.  No discharge what-so-ever, but still a slight burning when urinating.  My doctor said up to two weeks of residual symptoms are normal, so not concerned yet.  Actually, I'm feeling pretty much normal.

[candidone]

Actually, the test they ran on the discharge itself has already reported results (only five days after samples were collected, not bad!).  I don't have gonorrhea or trich., which leaves only chlamydia as a 'likely' diagnosis.  The urine test should confirm chlamydia shortly.  Either way, my symptoms have really improved.  There is still a slight burning when urinating, but discharging has significantly slowed down, and I dare say has nearly stopped.

So my experience as I remember it is this (for people's reference, because it drove me nuts not having a reference earlier).  One day after taking the meds, it felt as though the burning intensity and frequency had reduced, but much of that could have been psychological.  Also one day after the meds, discharge that had accumulated in my foreskin over night was still abundant and had a white, translucent appearance.  On day two, I don't remember a dramatic change in burning but morning discharge had deffinately reduced although was still present.  This trend continued through to day three, when morning discharge was much less abundant and appeared clear, not white.  On day four, I actually experienced more discharging throughout the day (as frequently but in less quantity than before the meds) and negatively assumed meds had failed.  It's hard to be positive during an experience like this.  But today on day five, I've experience nearly NO discharging during the day and there was very little (clear, not white) discharge in the morning.  Burning however continues, unfortunately.

After speaking to the doctor today, this is what I think.  I think the white component of the discharge is produced by the bacteria itself.  That's why it was clear in the beginning of my case (when the bacteria was minimally present, but urethra was still agitated) and is clear again now (now that its numbers are again reduced).  The clear discharge is your body's own doing (I think).  Just like open wounds on your skin emit a puss, the wounds caused by the infection along your urethra emit this stuff, even after the infection is gone.  So, while your urethra is healing after being freed of the infection, you may still experience burning and a clear discharge.

That's only my non-professional understanding but it makes sense to me.  I'm an aerospace engineering graduate student, and NOT a doctor.  This experience has been a huge slap in the face and has taught me a life lesson that, annoyingly, I already knew.  I'll report anything new for the readers I know are out there.  Thanks again to the users auntiejessi and r_johnson for their support so far.

[auntiejessi]

You are seeing an improvement in your symptoms, and that's a good sign.  Sometimes there is lingering inflammation that can cause symptoms to linger a little longer.

I wouldn't worry too much as long as you are seeing improvement.

When will your results be back?

Aj

[candidone]

Thank you both for your responses.

Have either of you come across this number, that the antibiotics are only active in your system for five days?  The pharmacist told me that when filling out my prescription, and this is where my confusion comes from.  If they become inactive after five days but you still have symptoms, you'd expect that the infection would have enough strength to re-build its forces (so to speak) in the absence of the antibiotics, wouldn't you?  So I was thinking that if symptoms persist after five days, go to the doctor, because the battle is lost.  But that's contradictory to nearly everything I've read online.  A penny for your thoughts?

Thank you for pointing that out, auntiejessi.  The doctor was very honest and clear, and said that I "probably" have chlamydia and that there would be no negative effects if I were treated for both it and ghonorrea while my tests were being processed.  Needless to say, I anxiously await the results of those tests (for chlamydia, ghonorrea and trich.).  They'll tell me if I need different drugs or if all the right bases have already been covered.

For anybody reading who wants a reference timeline for this, I'm entering day five of post-treatment (4x 250 mg of Co-Azithromycin and 400 mg of Suprax) and have reduced but persistent symptoms.  Burning is now pretty much limited to morning washroom visits, and morning discharge has gone from being appreciable quantities of a white translulent mucus to smaller quantities of a clear mucus.  Daytime discharges haven't been effected as much, and remain being a smaller amount of the same clear mucus.  I was told by my doctor that its good to be ejaculating regularly during treatment to purge your system, so I'm doing that too, and you should keep it in mind.

[auntiejessi]

I would also wonder if you were actually tested for chlamydia, or if you were being treated for it based on symptoms.

If you were just treated without testing, perhaps its not chlamydia.

Aj

[r_johnson]

Symptoms generally start going away within a week to two weeks.  It's hard to set expectations for when the symptoms will start going away as it varies person to person.  

If you're not noticing a reduction in symptoms by the end of the first week, I would suggest contacting your doctor again to make sure you're not dealing with a resistant strain.