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Question about Chlamydia
Revolutionary
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Simple question: BF and GF both get Chlamydia. What are the odds that it wasn't generated from sex with someone outside the relationship? It's clear one got it and gave it to the other, but what are the odds one got it 'original?'
The girl's been faithful, it's the boy who's in question here.
Also, is it possible to tell (aka could a doctor tell you) how you got Chlamydia i.e. transmitted or 'original'?
Thanks in advance.
The girl's been faithful, it's the boy who's in question here.
Also, is it possible to tell (aka could a doctor tell you) how you got Chlamydia i.e. transmitted or 'original'?
Thanks in advance.
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No. One of them got it from someone else. That's how it works.
Is this even serious?
See, everyone says that, but then how did the first case of chlamydia occur?
I mean its impossible to say "they definitely got it from someone else" because otherwise it wouldn't exist. That said, chances are low that the conditions that bread the first case of chlamydia were also true for the guy that got it.
To answer the rest of your question - no a doctor won't be able to tell how it was gotten.
Having no medical knowledge whatsoever, I assumed Chlamydia came also from some other source. Every ball we ever caught was made somewhere right? Poor example I know but that's my reasoning.
So what are the odds? They've both had sexual partners before but like one year ago, and they got the symptoms at the same time.
To even suggest that Chlamydia evolved independently on just these two people is just dumb.
OP, one of them got it from someone else.
Taken from the CDC website:
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If so, I hope she's talking to a doctor about it.
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It'll be embarrassing, but you can ask your previous partners if they have Chlamydia.
You could also just let it go. Knowing who got it first and from whom just might not be worth the trouble.
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No, I think they should definitely seek out their previous partners and tell them to get checked. Finding out where they got it from can prevent it spreading to other people.
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Also bear in mind that the Clap self cures after about 4 months... assuming it doesn't make you infertile in the process.
Its really easy to cure - just get them to take some doxycycline for about a week.
Not so easy to cure is somebodies urge to cheat... which is exactly what happened here.
Yikes, it hadn't occurred to me that their previous partners might unknowingly be carrying it. Yeah, definitely contact them and have them get checked out.
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First cases are usually some sort of special event, e.g. HIV was likely some rare transfer of a virus between species that just happened, or a specific recombination of genetics like the swine virus.
The likely hood of that route of infection varies, (though say flu viruses have a habbit of swapping genomes particularly when the conditions are right rather than the rare chance of an encounter between human + animal) but in the case of chlamydia you can pretty much assume it's zero.
The rest of the time it's just fairly endemic in the population, with people able to be carriers for several years and show no signs of infection.
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While people can be asymptomatic carriers, it'd be very, very strange for them to start exhibiting symptoms at the same time that they transmit the disease to their partner for the first time. Asymptomatic carriers are still able to cause infections in any partner they have, they just don't suffer from the disease themselves. It's very unlikely that they could've been sexually active with the asymptomatic carrier not infecting the other partner and having that partner exhibit symptoms from the infection. To have that happen AND to have the initial carrier begin to exhibit symptoms at the exact same time as the partner is very, very unlikely.
It would, however, be completely believable that one person would be like, "Oh shit, you gave me the clap!" while the other person was like, "Oh, snap! I didn't even know I had that!" (I actually know a couple that had that happen at the beginning of their relationship. Let me tell you, that's a quick test over how serious you are.)
This. This could have been sitting in his system for years so all the people saying "he obviously cheated" are wrong. Of course it doesn't mean he didn't cheat either just that if he has an otherwise clean track record you should maybe give him the benefit of the doubt.
And chlamydia self cures after four months? First I've heard of it, if you don't treat it it'll make you infertile.
The clap usually refers to Gonorrhea, which assuredly does not go away without treatment. It can stop manifesting symptoms, but it's still there.
Chlamydia won't go away on it's own, either.
I'd be so terrified of my dick rotting away that I'd fucking sprint to the doctor's office.
I wasn't saying it was likely - besides it wouldn't have to evolve independently, could evolved on one and then the one transfered to the other. Eitherway, the point I was trying to make was that its not "just a joke" like someone above suggested.
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Yeah, no. People having sex need to have a fundamental grasp of a few things. Like where do babies come from, and where do diseases come from are definitely two of them.