Positive chlamydia result...WHY?!? HOW?!?

jensreyes18

i've never had any std's and a week ago I went to the hospital and they didn't tell me I had chlamydia, they said I just had BV and my doctor called me saying I have chlamydia. How is that possible can the results from my doctor be wrong?

groovylocks

Uh...... So how are all the ways you can become exposed to it?

If it's only sexually transmitted, some ugly things are possible. Since your last negative STD scan/panel, have you slept with anybody new? If not... you need to talk seriously with your partner. 

Infections of all kinds can be present but not visible in the blood during an incubation period (which is what a blood test looks for - presence in the blood) - i don't know if Chlamydia can fall into that spectrum or not or what its incubation period is like, if it even has any. I've no idea.  

The only thing I'm pretty sure of is that you can't catch it from your unborn baby. 

I'm sorry - i know this can't be easy to hear any of this. But babies don't give you chlamydia. People who have chlamydia that you sleep with give you chlamydia.. Somebody you slept with recently has it. Don't be embarrassed about it at all or anything. These issues are so contagious. But.. you know.. start asking some hard questions.. 

twogirlsandagreen

Did you sleep with anybody new? If not you need to ask your partner about it.

groovylocks

So hold everything for a second though (and i will post this on your other thread too)

It seems, from a few quick google searches, that Chlamydia might be able to lie dormant in people for a number of years, without symptoms and undetected, meaning you or your partner could have come across it long ago, before you were together, and it was just dormant. 

DISCLAIMER I'm not sure if this is how it actually works. You need to ask your dr about it. But that's what the internet seems to be implying.