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Urea Plasma?
I have a normal pap smear everytime I go to the Gyncologist all of a sudden last month they say I'm positive for Urea plasma and I took doxy for 7days and I went back they said it was still there and they gave me something else and i was still positive for it then they made the dosage higher to 500mg it didn't work soo they made me take the 500mg for 14 days and i have an appt. next monday but I'm pretty sure its still going to be positive for it. Should I keep taking the prescriptions for it or should i just let it be?
COMMUNITY LEADER
It is sexually transmitted in the cases we are talking about here.
It doesn't have anything to do with other infections. Its just a bacteria that can be transmitted through oral and genital sex.
AJ
It doesn't have anything to do with other infections. Its just a bacteria that can be transmitted through oral and genital sex.
AJ
Thank you auntiejessi...but I didn't understand ANY of that. How would one acquire this infection? Through another one that wasn't treated the right way?
COMMUNITY LEADER
http://www.emedicine.com/med/topic2340.htm
Decent article, but I couldn't find any better ones.
AJ
Decent article, but I couldn't find any better ones.
AJ
In addition to the above excellent advice, the next step you can take if you really have a resistant strain is to do antibiotic susceptibility testing.
Those tests can be done from here:
http://www.mycoplasma.uab.edu/intro.htm
You'd have to stop taking antibiotics for a little while to get a good culture, but after that you would know exactly which antibiotics would work.
If the second antibiotic you took was Cipro (pretty common), that and Doxycycline are the two most likely to fail due to resistance. Of course, that's what most doctors prescribe anyway.
So check the above factors first, and if you're not getting reinfected, then I'd go ahead and do these tests and be done with it once and for all.
Those tests can be done from here:
http://www.mycoplasma.uab.edu/intro.htm
You'd have to stop taking antibiotics for a little while to get a good culture, but after that you would know exactly which antibiotics would work.
If the second antibiotic you took was Cipro (pretty common), that and Doxycycline are the two most likely to fail due to resistance. Of course, that's what most doctors prescribe anyway.
So check the above factors first, and if you're not getting reinfected, then I'd go ahead and do these tests and be done with it once and for all.
COMMUNITY LEADER
The other thought is if you have a partner and if she/he hasn't been treated. If that's the case, that's why you still have it, and your partner would also need to be treated.
AJ
AJ
COMMUNITY LEADER
If doxy is not working for you, they need to stop increasing the dosage, and start a new treatment regimen.
Did you test for gonorrhea and chlamydia?
AJ
Did you test for gonorrhea and chlamydia?
AJ
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