Can chlamydia resist treatment?

Question

I had chlamydia and was diagnosed at the GUM clinic. I took the antibiotics and completed the course exactly as I was told to. After about 3 weeks I am having very similar symptons to those I had before diagnosis. I have not had sex in beween now & then so can not have contracted it again. Is it possible the antibiotics did not work? Can I go to my regular GP about this or do I have to go back to the GUM clinic?

Serious answers only please

Answer 1

I asked a similar question a couple of days ago, and I think the answer is yes, but it is very uncommon. See the link below.

You are probably best going back to the same GUM clinic, where they can retest you. If they do a PCR test you might need to wait a few weeks because this can react even when the bugs are dead. It is possible that your symptoms are not due to chlamydia: they just found it incidentally, but they haven't sorted out the original problem yet.

If you have a regular partner make sure he gets treated before you have sex again.

Answer 2

Chlamydia can be easily treated and cured with antibiotics. A single dose of azithromycin or a week of doxycycline (twice daily) are the most commonly used treatments. HIV-positive persons with chlamydia should receive the same treatment as those who are HIV negative.

All sex partners should be evaluated, tested, and treated. Persons with chlamydia should abstain from sexual intercourse until they and their sex partners have completed treatment, otherwise re-infection is possible.

Women whose sex partners have not been appropriately treated are at high risk for re-infection. Having multiple infections increases a woman's risk of serious reproductive health complications, including infertility. Retesting should be considered for women, especially adolescents, three to four months after treatment. This is especially true if a woman does not know if her sex partner received treatment.


Chlamydia is known as a "silent" disease because about three quarters of infected women and about half of infected men have no symptoms. If symptoms do occur, they usually appear within 1 to 3 weeks after exposure.

In women, the bacteria initially infect the cervix and the urethra (urine canal). Women who have symptoms might have an abnormal vaginal discharge or a burning sensation when urinating. When the infection spreads from the cervix to the fallopian tubes (tubes that carry eggs from the ovaries to the uterus), some women still have no signs or symptoms; others have lower abdominal pain, low back pain, nausea, fever, pain during intercourse, or bleeding between menstrual periods. Chlamydial infection of the cervix can spread to the rectum.

Men with signs or symptoms might have a discharge from their penis or a burning sensation when urinating. Men might also have burning and itching around the opening of the penis. Pain and swelling in the testicles are uncommon.

Men or women who have receptive anal intercourse may acquire chlamydial infection in the rectum, which can cause rectal pain, discharge, or bleeding. Chlamydia can also be found in the throats of women and men having oral sex with an infected partner.

Answer 3

Yep, as other like, infections, such as yeast etc., your partner needs to be treated when you are/ OK I am jumping on my soap box, WE have become an Homogenized group of people. We take pills for everything, foods, environments, choices, are all made by people other then ourselves, that do not know any more then we do. Tobacco, Trans fats, medications, on and on we look to the Government as Orphans awaiting a decision.

Examples: Laws forbidding smoking in restaurants. why oh why can't they post a notice on the door and let folks make their own decision on going in or not. That is a simplistic example but it can be applied to so many other things in our lives. PEACE. LOVE, TYE DYED GRANOLA
YES to your question, no matter what the infectious disease is, a follow up should be done with in a month of diagnosis, before intimate contact with others.

Answer 4

If you can be pregnant or if you have infertility problems I reccomend to follow this method http://pregnancy.toptips.org

Many factors can cause a couple trouble in conceiving a baby, I'll list a few of the most common ones in women:
Anorexia or other dietary dysfunctions
Lacking amounts of FSH and LH are produced, so ovaries aren't as functional as they could be, and so not many eggs are produced
Stress, causing periods to become irregular
Medications such as cancer treatments,antidepressants, hormone therapy, pain killers, and antipsychotic drugs can all cause temporary infertility.

With the method that I posted above you will be able to get pregnant!

Answer 5

Once infertility has been diagnosed, there are a number of treatment options available depending on the root cause of the problem. Learn here https://tr.im/xfhLv

Infertility is a condition defined as not being able to become pregnant after at least one year of unprotected, regular, well-timed intercourse. Women who suffer from multiple miscarriages may also be diagnosed as infertile. Infertility may be classified into two groups, primary and secondary infertility.

Answer 6

Was your partner treated? Did you finish the course of antibiotics?
Chlamydia can cause Pelvic Inflammatory Disease, which is very painful.
If in doubt go back to doc.... ALso have your partner treated, and use protected sex.

Good luck

Answer 7

chlamydia. can be restant if given the wrong medications. the medication of cholice by doctors are these. 2 in tratement . .1,.cipro.500.mg. 3. times daily. .2. doxcline.100.mg. .2. times daily for a week to. 10. days . these are the choice by doctors for treatment and as well dont engage in no sexual activety till reassestedby your doctor and your partner . or carrier has to be treated as well . my opion?

Answer 8

I have the same problem . I took antibiotics for the infection I had caused by HPV , well infectiion is gone but the virus would never . so from time to time you gonna have the symptoms back .I talked to my doctor and she said I have to keep my body healthy and strong and my immune system might get rid of the virus ( 80 percent of the time) but I have problem for the past 6 months and I dont know how long it is gonna continue

Answer 9

You seem to have a resistant strain/diagnosed wrong in the first place or else something you may be injesting might be reacting with the med to cause it to be ineffective on the present condition. (some foods or drugs may interact to negate the prescribed drug....grapefruit can interfere with some drug potency..etc....) Go get retested or else seek a second opinion elsewhere...I would!

Answer 10

All!!!!!!bacterial infections can become antibiotic resistant do not delay Go back to doc or clinic asap before this new strain becomes any stronger.