How do you know if you have gonorrhea or chlamydia?

Serious answers please!!! I am a married woman and I am absolutely faithful. My husband is deployed and came home two weeks ago for R and R. I begin to have diarrha and feel sick at my stomach as well as having joint pain. I went to the doctor today thinking I have stomach problems after it not going away for 11 days. They made a appointment for the gynocologist and a gastrologists. They were asking me all sorts of questions about discharge and sex and when I got home I had been prescribed a antiboditic that treats gonorrhea and chlamydia. Just wondering if I should be concerned or is this protocall.

I was not given a swab test, this was a general medicine doctor and so he referred me to a gyno but by the time I get to him I will have been on antiboditics and I will never know just wondering if these symptoms even fit a STD.

It's a little strange that you were given antibiotics based on suspicion, rather than a definitive test result.
Both gonorrhea and chlamydia can be diagnosed by taking a swab of your cervix (done during a pelvic exam.) It is possible to have had both for a long time; most women have no symptoms. But it's completely worthless to treat you and not your partner as well, assuming you really do have one of those (doesn't sound like you are sure yet.)

I wish you the best...I would ask specifically what the antibiotics were for, and if you were actually tested or they just "think" you might have it.

yeeeah you need to be concerned----did they give you a test? go get tested----well it's too late now if you did have it you've already gone on the medication....

did they tell you if you tested positive for either of the two?

I would say go back to your OB/GYN and do a complete STD battery....


what was the vaginal discharge like?? did it have a foul odor? did it cause itching or burning with urination? was it discolored? have you sat your husband down and asked him? soldiers are usually given a shot that gets rid of any disease they might have picked up on the way regardless if they have any thing or not---- but i would still do the std battery if you're worried....

If you got an antibiotic, you should have a disease, or the suspicion of a disease. Ask why you got the antibiotic. You may have gotten one because your symptoms were kinda vague and would be treated by a certain type of antibiotics, because some antibiotics treat a wide range of diseases.

Like, take when I had tick fever. I got a Lyme disease titer, which came back negative. But they said that sometimes, you have to have the disease a long time before the test will show a positive result for Lyme disease, so you could have a false negative even though you'd have a positive if you waited a while to get tested.

So they gave me antibiotics which treat most kinds of tick fever (Rocky Mountain spotted fever, Lyme disease, and recurring tick fever.) It fixed whatever I had.

So I don't know if I'd have tested positive for Lyme disease. I didn't want to wait around untreated to find out.

Ask the docs if it was a suspicion, or if they just gave you drugs that would knock out any of the usual suspects (STDs, tropical diseases, common contagious diseases.)

If your husband's in the military, they'll have an educated guess as to what he has based on where he was and whom he was around. If you think he added an STD to the mix (quite possible for military folk), ask the doc. Ask your husband.

Hey, if he has one, HE needs to be treated, too. I understand the reluctance based on the fact that he's your husband, he's gone all the time, he's a soldier...but if he's putting your life at risk while defending other people...uh...call him to the carpet.

But ask the doc first.