i have had gonorrhea for long. No response to many drugs. Should i switch to herbal or which is the best drug?

Answer 1

Gonorrhea can be very dangerous to your health and it can also make you steril, and cause you to never be able to have children. I am very suprised you are on here asking, your doctor should be on top of this, trying one after another until the std is gone. Now the only reason I could see you not getting rid of it, is if you are continueing a sexual relationship with the person you contracted it from in the first place. If you are doing that, chances are they haven't been treated, and you could be getting it over and over again because he hasn't treated his. I would suggest you talk to your doctor, if your doctor can't figure it out, you need to go and find another doctor that knows what they are doing.

Answer 2

You obviously need a second opinion. Your doctor should be conducting tests to see why you are not responding to a normal course of treatment.

Are you sure you are not just being reinfected by a partner? Have all of your partners been tested?

There are specific drugs for specific strains of the disease. You also need to pay very close attention to the instructions for taking these drugs. Many can be quickly neutralized by common foods. You also need to take the whole course of drugs within the timeframe your doctor gives you. Don't stop just because the symptoms go away.

Answer 3

Doctors usually prescribe a single dose of one of the following antibiotics to treat gonorrhea:

Cefixime
Ceftriaxone
Ciprofloxacin
Ofloxacin
Levofloxacin

If you have gonorrhea and are pregnant or are younger than 18 years old, you should not take ciprofloxacin or ofloxacin. Your doctor can prescribe the best and safest antibiotic for you.

Gonorrhea and chlamydial infection, another common STD, often infect people at the same time. Therefore, doctors usually prescribe a combination of antibiotics, such as ceftriaxone and doxycycline or azithromycin, which will treat both chlamydial and gonorrhea disease.

If you have gonorrhea, all of your sexual partners should get tested and then treatment for gonorrhea if infected, whether or not they have symptoms of gonorrhea
using latex condoms correctly and consistently during vaginal or rectal sexual activity, you can reduce your risk of getting gonorrhea and its complications.


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What Research Is Going On?
The National Institute of Allergy, Immunology and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) continues to support a comprehensive, multidisciplinary program of research on N. gonorrhoeae (gonoccoci). Researchers are trying to understand how gonoccoci infect cells while evading human immune defenses (immune response). Studies are ongoing to determine

How this bacterium attaches to host cells
How it gets inside them
Gonococcal surface structures and how they can change
Human response to infection by gonococci

All of these efforts, together, will eventually lead to development of an effective vaccine against gonorrhea. They also have led to, and will lead to further, improvements in diagnosis and gonorrhea treatment.

Another important area of gonorrhea research concerns antibiotic resistance. This is particularly important because strains of N. gonorrhoeae that are resistant to recommended antibiotic therapies have spread from Southeast Asia to Hawaii and are now starting to appear on the West Coast. These events add urgency to NIAID efforts to develop effective microbicides (antimicrobial preparations that can be applied inside the vagina) to prevent infections.

Recently, scientists have determined the sequence of the N. gonorrhoeae genome. They are using this information to find promising new leads to help us better understand how the organism causes disease and becomes resistant to antibiotics.


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More Information on Gonorrhea
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Answer 4

Which medications have you used. Ceftriaxone 250 mg IM should cure it. Penicillin wont. Many states(in the west) are now showing a strain of GC that is not respondng to treatments such as Ciprofloxain it is known as Fluoroquinolon resistant GC

Other CDC recommended treatments for GC include
Azithromycin 2 grams by mouth in one dose.
spectinomycin 2 gms IM
Cefixime 400 mg by mouth

Answer 5

Herbal will not cure gonorrhea, talk to your doctor, they should do susceptibility tests on your infection to find the right antibiotic to kill it.

Answer 6

antibiotics will CURE and RID you of gonorrhea.

if you are non-responsive to the antibiotics well then talk to your doctor about herbal medicine. and maybe get a 2nd even 3rd opinion