I had an odd discharge and got swabbed (I'm a girl). I tested positive for chlamydia, but I want to know if could have infected a guy solely by performing fellatio? Knowing I had a weird discharge, I didn't have sex, but I did perform fellatio. Could I have infected him from my saliva? I was reading that there is chlamydia of the throat and vagina and rectum, but are they really isolated to those areas? If i have chlamydia in my vagina, is it also present in my saliva or mouth as well?
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It is not likely you have chlamydia of the throat or rectum. It is usually isolated to the place of primary infection. Unless the person who gave you the chlamydia you also performed oral sex on or received anal sex from them.
I would not be overly concerned. You especially do not need to worry about giving chlamydia to the partner you performed oral sex on recently. I assume you received treatment for the chlamydia as well. I recommend retesting in 3-4 weeks to know you are cleared.
I would not be overly concerned. You especially do not need to worry about giving chlamydia to the partner you performed oral sex on recently. I assume you received treatment for the chlamydia as well. I recommend retesting in 3-4 weeks to know you are cleared.
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If you had oral sex with the partner who gave you chlamydia then you could have it in the throat as well and pass it on with oral sex. Appropriate treatment would eradicate the disease in all locations but you must have the person you had fellatio with get checked and treated if necessary.
You can not get chlamydia in the vagina from oral sex. If he had chlamydia and gave it to you after oral sex, it would be in your mouth. It did not travel from your mouth down to your vagina. Chances are, you had the infection for some time before the discharge started. Chlamydia doesn't always have symptoms, so it's likely that you had the infection for a while, but got discharge for some other reason. In any case if you have EVER had penetration with your partner, both of you should be treated for the STD.
In one of my former responses I mentioned that the human saliva has huge immune defense mechanisms. However, I responded to a question about kissing, not about oral sex (fellatio). You need a proper antibiotic therapy because chlamydial infection affects not only the genitals, but also the oral cavity, heart, joints, and muscles. My advice, not as a doctor, but as a woman: NEVER do fellatio again! It is too wrong. No woman or girl deserves to be humiliated that way. If due to your religious or ethical standards, you need to keep your virginity until your marriage, then the best way to do so is to abstain. No one in your age has died from abstinence. Only older woman, age 40-55 may have emotional (even psychiatric) and medical consequences from the absence of sexual life. You are 23, and you are not under that risk, yet. Regain your self-esteem and think of your future as a mother.
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