Positive chlamydia result...WHY?!? HOW?!?
Help!
I was tested at the begining of my pregnancy for chlamydia (and others) and the tests came back negative. My husband had also been tested within the year...also negative. I was just tested again at 37 weeks and the test for chlamydia came back positive! I have been married for 5 years and my husband and I have been completely faithful to each other! Anybody else been through this? He is going to be tested, but in the meantime our marriage is seriously damaged. Could one of us had it all along, but tested negative in the past (false negative) or are there things that can cause a false postive? I had just finished treatment for a yeast infection. I asked to be retested, but the Dr. said the tests were accurate and I should just take the meds (which I did) and try to leave it in the past. I think I can do this, but I'm not so sure about my husband. Any suggestions, experiences, or advice would be appreciated!
Re: Positive chlamydia result...WHY?!? HOW?!?
Don't you hate those spontaneous chlamydia outbreaks?!
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This is totally suspect. You may be faithful, but I am not so sure your husband is.
Your doctor is an idiot for telling you just to ignore it and not dig into it more.
Chlamydia can be passed to your baby during childbirth - what if you had not found it before you gave birth, or went into early labor?
That is not something I could just "ignore" and move on happily taking my medications.
Sure, chlamydia can linger around for months or years, but you had a negative test earlier in the pregnancy so somehow, I doubt that is the issue here.
A few things...
I have been married for 5 years and my husband and I have been completely faithful to each other! Like the PP mentioned - you may have been faithful...
Could one of us had it all along, but tested negative in the past (false negative) or are there things that can cause a false postive? I would think that this is highly unlikely.
I think I can do this, but I'm not so sure about my husband. While I commend you on trying to leave it in the past and work things out, I am not sure what your husband's problem is when this post makes it sounds like he is the one that cheated. Maybe I am reading this wrong, but what does he have to be upset about? Could it be guilt over his probable indiscretion? Possibly because he got caught screwing around?
I am sorry, but I find it really hard to believe that either one of you became infected without there being some sort of extramarital activity and if you have been faithful there isn't too much left to figure out.
ETA: I hope that this is MUD.
Or she's trying to remain anonymous.
I have this habit of playing devil's advocate, so here I go again...
I still say wait for his test results and in the meantime, it's innocent until proven guilty. My husband and I had been together and sexually exclusive for 6 years when I tested positive for herpes. My husband never had any symptoms and never tested positive for it himself. I would have been crushed and felt betrayed if his first reaction to my news was to accuse me of cheating on him. He was supportive and loving and we moved on. When I went in for my initial pregnancy confirmation visit 2 years later, I came back negative. Apparently, I was given the wrong results, or my culture was swapped with another culture in the lab. But something went wrong and I was misdiagnosed (because herpes doesn't magically disappear).
The point of all this is that stranger things have happened, and though it's a slim shot, there's still a chance that your husband will test negative. If you've assumed he's a cheater from the beginning of all this, it will damage him if he's been faithful to you.
I really do hope it all works out well for you.
You will still test positive for herpes even during dormant periods if you have it.... so this does not matter.
Dormant or inflamed, you come up positive if you've got it. However, whether the infection is viral or bacterial is irrelevant to the point I was making.
The point is, it's not certain yet. And even a long shot can still be the truth.
I'm not saying that her husband isn't cheating, you can't absolutely prove his innocence right now any more than you can absolutely prove his guilt. So why go about hoping for him to be a cheater? It's not constructive.
If he is cheating or has cheated, she'll know soon enough.
Because he's probably had unprotected sex with the OP (his wife). As she's infected, there is an excellent chance that he's infected too. So it makes sense that he would be tested after she tested positive.
Good night, you're missing the point.
The fact that she has chlamydia is not proof-positive that her husband is cheating on her. Preserve the trust in the marriage from the side she can control (her own) and wait.
She's right to not bite on him about this yet. She can give him hell and then some later if it turns out he was cheating.
There is a difference between "devil's advocate" and "delusional twit". Archkrys might want to take a look into that.
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You're an idiot. If she's been faithful then clearly she got this from somewhere. That somewhere being her husband. He's clearly sticking his peen in someone else's vag unprotected and then doing the same with his wife.
Um, because his wife is positive for it and likely they have slept together so he has been exposed to it.
Otherwise he would just pass it back to her....
8/25/10
If this post is real....
I think it's pretty effed up that her doctor is doling out marital advice (and bad marital advice at that).
I'd get a new dh and a new doctor.