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Worried about Chlamydia exposure
Hi. I am worried about some umprotected exposures I had with a women who i didn't know over the past 3-4 weeks. I am in New Zealand. She is a 35 year old white woman.
Monday Jan 11: Oral sex, protected vaginal sex
Tuesday Jan 12: Oral sex, Protected vaginal, unprotected anal
Thursday Jan 14: oral, unprotected vaginal
Sunday Jan 17: oral, unprotected vaginal
Monday Jan 25: unprotected vaginal
She assured me she was keen but I'm not sure as she could have chlamydia without knowing it. Is 35 a common age for someone to have chlamydia?
I had a urine test for chlamydia this morning. I am aware however that this may be too close to my last exposure to be accurate. However I have also read that it usually becomes detectable within hours or 1-2 days. In any case, I hope it will cover me for the prior exposures.
My questions are:
1) How likely she had it?
2) How likely I would catch it from her?
3) How meaningfull will the results be with the timing of the test - only 3 days after last exposure?
Thank you.
Monday Jan 11: Oral sex, protected vaginal sex
Tuesday Jan 12: Oral sex, Protected vaginal, unprotected anal
Thursday Jan 14: oral, unprotected vaginal
Sunday Jan 17: oral, unprotected vaginal
Monday Jan 25: unprotected vaginal
She assured me she was keen but I'm not sure as she could have chlamydia without knowing it. Is 35 a common age for someone to have chlamydia?
I had a urine test for chlamydia this morning. I am aware however that this may be too close to my last exposure to be accurate. However I have also read that it usually becomes detectable within hours or 1-2 days. In any case, I hope it will cover me for the prior exposures.
My questions are:
1) How likely she had it?
2) How likely I would catch it from her?
3) How meaningfull will the results be with the timing of the test - only 3 days after last exposure?
Thank you.
MEDICAL PROFESSIONAL
Welcome back to the STD forum. I'll go directly to your questions.
1) It is unlikely your partner had chlamydia. More than any other STD, chlamydia is a disease of youth. In testing programs around the world, 80-90% of all infections are found in women under age 25 (mostly age 15-20), and it is quite rare above the age of 30. (In the US, it is recommended that even the most sexually active women not even be tested for chlamydia if over age 25.) And in your partner, the odds she is infected may be even lower than usual, given her assurance she doesn't have any STDs.
2) If your partner had chlamydia, your risk was substantial (maybe 50%?) from the unproteced vaginal and anal exposures. There is little if any risk from oral sex, which is rarely carried in the mouth or throat and therefore cannot be transmitted by oral exposure.
3) Three days after the last exposure is fine for reliable chlamydia testing.
In summary, combining the low risk you were exposed to chlamydia, if your test is negative, you can take it to the bank.
Based on your other discussions on this, the family medicine, and the HIV community forum, you seem to be a nervous sort, freaked out pretty easily after low risk sexual exposures. In view of that, I suggest you get into the condom habit, maybe even for oral sex. It is true that oral sex carries little risk for STDs and none for HIV -- but given your anxieties about it, you probably would avoid a lot of stress. Please think about it.
Regards-- HHH, MD
1) It is unlikely your partner had chlamydia. More than any other STD, chlamydia is a disease of youth. In testing programs around the world, 80-90% of all infections are found in women under age 25 (mostly age 15-20), and it is quite rare above the age of 30. (In the US, it is recommended that even the most sexually active women not even be tested for chlamydia if over age 25.) And in your partner, the odds she is infected may be even lower than usual, given her assurance she doesn't have any STDs.
2) If your partner had chlamydia, your risk was substantial (maybe 50%?) from the unproteced vaginal and anal exposures. There is little if any risk from oral sex, which is rarely carried in the mouth or throat and therefore cannot be transmitted by oral exposure.
3) Three days after the last exposure is fine for reliable chlamydia testing.
In summary, combining the low risk you were exposed to chlamydia, if your test is negative, you can take it to the bank.
Based on your other discussions on this, the family medicine, and the HIV community forum, you seem to be a nervous sort, freaked out pretty easily after low risk sexual exposures. In view of that, I suggest you get into the condom habit, maybe even for oral sex. It is true that oral sex carries little risk for STDs and none for HIV -- but given your anxieties about it, you probably would avoid a lot of stress. Please think about it.
Regards-- HHH, MD
Thnks Doc H
Thank you for humouring me. I am not actually that stressed about this one (compared to my other postings). However I value your professional opinion and I will await my test results
Thanks again
Thank you for humouring me. I am not actually that stressed about this one (compared to my other postings). However I value your professional opinion and I will await my test results
Thanks again
sorry. Sentence should read: She assured me she was clean
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