You are letting your anxiety get the best of you and it appears to be leading to "what if" games. The fact is at any instant in time one of you might have infected and the other, while previously infected, might have eliminated the infecton through natural host responses. Men tend to eliminate trich infections more rapidly than women, hence my response.
Time for us both to move on. I will. This will end this thread. I suggest you do your best to also relax and move forward. If you cannot, you do not need more testing, you either need counseling or to work this out directly with your partner. EWH
Sorry to reactivate this post, I hope you don't mind just clarifying one thing you've mentioned for my understanding. You said that if i tested negative for trich it wouldn't mean by partner didn't have it. However, assuming she didn't have any other encounters with others I was working on the assumption that given we'd had unprotected sex 20-25 times since my incident I would have infected her. Hence a negative test result for me would mean that she also wouldn't have the trich as surely we would be passing it back and forth?
This is really just for my understanding and that of others in a similar situations as my concerns about health risk have been allayed.
Thanks Doctor
Thats great, thanks for clarifying Doctor. All makes sense.
Enjoy the weekend !
Your first answer repeats my answer correctly. Your second comment is wrong. If you are tested with a reliable test, that provides reliable informatin that you do not have trich. It does not tell you about your partner. You had ?other partners, do you think she did not?
If you choose to test however (which is not something I would necessarily even bother to do), and your test is negative. EWH
Thank you Doctor. This is very helpful. So just to confirm my understanding:
1) based on medical/health risk there is no need for me to inform my partner that she 'might' have trich and needs to be tested?
2) If i choose to purchase one of the home test kits and it's negative i can assume that both myself and my partner do not have trich?
Thanks again for the quick response and at a time which must be pretty early in the US!
Welcome to our Forum. I'll address your questions and try to help although my sense is that part of the basis of your question relates to continuing guilt on your part related to exposures related to the time when your relationship with your current partner was troubled.
Trichomonas is relatively common infection in women which can be present with or without symptoms. When it is present much of the time it causes symptoms related to vaginal discharge in women. In men the infection is less common, in part because the majority of men appear to clear the infection spontaneously without treatment. It may be present in both women and men without symptoms however and when that is the case it would be detected only by testing.
In answer to your specific questions:
1. While one cannot be completely sure, the risk that you are still infected after two encounters and in the absence of symptoms is rather low (but difficult to quantify).
2. Serious biomedical complications are rare with trichomoniasis in women however the infection has recently received more attention. there are two reasons for this. First is that while not medically "serious" it does cause itching and vaginal discharge in some women with infection. There is no reason women should have to put up with this. Secondly, there are now commercially available tests which are better at making the diagnosis than the methods of testing available before the last year or two. When tests are available, they get used.
3. There is no meaningful association between trich and PID. This should not be a concern.
4. There are highly reliable tests now available for trich and I anticipate that whichever one is available through Freedom Health is quite reliable. If you choose to pursue testing through them, the results will be reliable.
I hope these comments are helpful. EWH