Sexually Transmitted Diseases

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This is actually the most complicated story I've ever heard and I dont think I'm as healthy as I was when this first started.

My cousin and her boyfriend went camping with another friend of ours and our friend and her boyfriend ended up having sex and then my cousin found out later that she had chlamydia My friend didn't go get checked out but then she had unprotected sex with the guy that I have been with for the last few weeks (unprotected). We never had intercourse but I swallowed his semen and I was wondering if he had contracted chlamydia from my friend if I have contracted it from him? I was also wondering if my strep throat had anything to do with swallowing his semen or chlamydia AND if my yeast infection has to do with the antibiotics I'm on for strep or if it was caused from him. Please let me know.

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As I wrote before, many STDs (including Chlamydia) can be transmitted by oral sex.
Penicillin (if that is what you were given) is not typically utilized for Chlamydial infection and many antibiotics can be linked to a vaginal yeast infection. Please see the abstract below and follow your doctor’s advice.

PCR for detection of Chlamydia trachomatis in endocervical, urethral, rectal, and pharyngeal swab samples obtained from patients attending an STD clinic.
Genitourin Med 1997 Dec;73(6):493-7 (ISSN: 0266-4348)
Ostergaard L; Agner T; Krarup E; Johansen UB; Weismann K; Gutschik E Department of Infectious Diseases, Aarhus University Hospital, Denmark.

OBJECTIVE: To investigate, by use of the Amplicor PCR in a routine setting, the recovery rate of Chlamydia trachomatis in ano-rectal and pharyngeal swab samples obtained from males and females attending an STD clinic in relation to sexual practices, symptoms, and signs. DESIGN: Data regarding sexual practices, and symptoms and signs related to the rectum and pharynx, were obtained from 196 females and 208 males, including 31 homosexuals and eight bisexuals. Swab samples were obtained from the urethra, rectum, and pharynx from all the patients. An additional endocervical swab sample was obtained from the females. METHODS: All samples were analysed by the Amplicor PCR (Roche). SETTING: Rudolph Bergh's Hospital, a clinic for sexually transmitted diseases situated in the centre of Copenhagen, Denmark. RESULTS: The overall prevalence of urogenital C trachomatis infection was 9.2% (37/404). The specificity of the Amplicor PCR was 100% for both ano-rectal and pharyngeal swab samples. In females three (13%) of the 23 infections were detected only by testing an ano-rectal or throat swab sample. In homosexual males two (67%) of three infections were detected only by the anorectal swab sample. Ano-rectal intercourse without use of condom was reported by 44% of females and by 52% of homosexual males. Fellatio without condom use was reported by 91% of females, and 80% of heterosexual males practised cunnilingus. Pharyngeal infection, however, occurred only in females, and the presence of pharyngeal symptoms or signs seemed predictive for pharyngeal C trachomatis infection, for which the time of incubation or colonisation exceeded 3 months. The presence of ano-rectal signs or symptoms was not predictive for an ano-rectal C trachomatis infection. CONCLUSION: The Amplicor PCR can be used on ano-rectal and pharyngeal swab samples. Ano-rectal swab samples should be obtained in females and homosexual males at high risk of being infected. Pharyngeal samples should be taken in females at high risk of being infected, especially when pharyngeal signs or symptoms are present.

[quote] This is actually the most complicated story I've ever heard and I dont think I'm as healthy as I was when this first started.

My cousin and her boyfriend went camping with another friend of ours and our friend and her boyfriend ended up having sex and then my cousin found out later that she had chlamydia... [/quote]

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There is a chance that your strep throat was/in chalamydia. Unless you told the doctor that you had swallowed semen that was possibly infected with Chlamydia, he may have misdiagnosed you. Did he take a swab and have it cultured? If not, and you still feel bad, go back, tell the doctor what happened, and get the appropriate treatment for Chlamydia (which may be the antibiotic, Zithromax or doxycycline, most likely).

The risk of you having genital chlamydia from his fingering you is unlikely, but it can happen if his fingers were infected from him rubbing his own penile discharge.

You are clearly wise to refrain from having intercourse, especially unprotected intercourse, I hope you now realize that unprotected oral sex is also risky.
[quote] As I wrote before, many STDs (including Chlamydia) can be transmitted by oral sex.
Penicillin (if that is what you were given) is not typically utilized for Chlamydial infection and many antibiotics can be linked to a vaginal yeast infection... [/quote]