Gonorrhea antibody test

[Hooper555]

Is there a test to determine if you have ever been exposed to gonorrhea in the past?  Got tested recently and came back negative, but I've heard it can sometimes have no symptoms and resolve on its own.

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[auntiejessi]

Yes, but what difference would it make? If you had it and it's gone, it means it was an uncomplicated infection that didn't do any damage, so why bother?

You should focus on letting go of this, and figuring out what is happening to you now, because it isn't an STD. Therapy should be a part of this.

[Hooper555]

Auntiejessi.  Thank you, and please don't block or report me.  I am getting therapy.  My wife just complained of pelvic and lower back pain last night that came on suddenly and subsided after about 30 min.  I know it's supposedly extremely unlikely, but I still can't shake the idea that I had asymptomatic gonorrhea or chlamydia from my sexual encounter in 2016, transmitted it to my wife, and now she's got PID.  I've read women can have it for years.  I'm afraid for her, for me, for my marriage.  Perhaps getting a test will allay my fears or uncover a real problem.  Thank you.

[auntiejessi]

Your wife doesn't have PID. If she got gonorrhea from you in 2016, she would have gotten PID long ago. Yes, they say years, which is theoretically true, but in reality, it probably wouldn't be more than a year for chlamydia, and not that long for gonorrhea. I know there are sites that say women can have it dormant in their bodies for 20 years and such - that is not true.  

PID is also not one intense, 30 min pain wave. I don't know what she had - maybe an ovarian cyst burst or something - but PID is severe pain that stays, fever, discharge, maybe nausea, vomiting.

Talk to your therapist before getting the antibody tests.

[Hooper555]

Thanks, Auntiejessi.  That's why I'm trying to stay away from websites, even webMD and all that.  You can't tell what is true and what isn't!  People helping people is the only way - so thank you for what you do.  I hope you're right about everything, and I will see my therapist again.

[Hooper555]

Hi again, auntiejessi.  Would your comments be true of DGI as well?  Thanks!

[Sillymistake87]

Hi Hooper. DGI affects joints more often or not with nausea and occasionally a rash. It is also uncommon so I would not be worried at all. Even if you did have it the chances of both of you not having symptoms is unlikely. I cant see what your exposure was in your profile but 6 years ago is too long to be worrying about!

[auntiejessi]

Listen. Let it go.

Didn't you have protected sex? And like one time of unprotected oral? Am I remembering that correctly? In 2015?

This is such an overreaction to this. If you had DGI, you'd test positive for gonorrhea.

This is guilt, nothing more. Please see your therapist.