Chlamydia - Doxycycline Success Rates & Re-Testing

[AnxietyWars]

Hey everyone.

New here but just a severely anxious individual!

I was seeing a guy back in 2021 and he assured me that he was clean, I naively believed him. A few months after I stopped seeing him due to DV, I tested just in case. It came back positive. It was the first time that I had ever had an STI and it just shook me. I was prescribed Doxy and did another test 6 weeks later and it was all clear.

Since then I have just been so so anxious about catching it again. Fastforward to March this year and I started seeing someone new. I told him I wouldn't be intimate with him until he proves that he has the all clear. He was tested and was negative, as was I. I thought I was safe.

While I was seeing him I decided to do another test (as I say, I was anxious as hell after the first experience and decided to be on the side of caution and get tested after every new partner). The test came back with me being positive for Chlamydia. I confronted him and he tried telling me tha I had some sort of dormant strain of it brought on by stress. To which I told him was absolutely aubsurd. Anyway, took him months to acutally admit he slept around and this girl he had seen tested positve. Mystery of the airborne, stress-induced clap solved. Horah.

Anyway, I took the weeks-course of Doxy again. All the symptoms I had went away during this course. I am currently waiting for my results after re-testing 6 weeks later and I am honestly sleepless from stress. I am so worried that I am just going to be positive again even though I haven't had unprotected sex since, and I know this is just anxiety talking.

What are the chances of the treatment not working?

[xsevenx]

I don’t know the answer. But best wishes.

[Galen70]

Extremely unlikely chlamydia treat will fail as there are not the same issues with resistance as gonhorroea has.

[D1tzY]

So sorry for you. I am in a similar boat with my anxiety and depression going through the roof over my diagnosis yesterday. Will be taking the same antibiotics you had. It makes me not want to open my legs again. The guy who gave it to me I was naive to trust.

I feel sorry that you have gone through this twice now. But you have done the right thing to look after your health. I think a lot of men don't do sti checks and go around thinking they are invincible.

I'm glad I caught this chlamydia early but it is a depressing thought that I have it.

[HPVisanSTI]

Hiya Anxiety Wars,I haven't read anything about chlamydia becoming resistant to antibiotics. But your story reminds me that even when a guy does a full sexual health screening, they don't test him for high risk HPV - the kind that causes abnormal cervical cells and cancer. (I have 2 strains of this now.) The treatment is excision of a chunk of the cervix.. and many, many women struggle with sexual function after those procedures. No Dr ever advised me that swapping-out condoms for other forms of contraception was risky for contracting STIs that they don't test men for, which I am still so very angry about. So please keep using condoms, and picking your sexual partners wisely. Sending love to you for your recovery x