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Posted on: 03/13/2009
Question
I was diagnosed with chlamydia on FEB.18, and was given the antiobotics(4 tablets Azithromycin)for me and my partner. I was told not to have sex for seven days which I did. I am still having yellow discharge. I had sex on March 4th. Could this mean that I was reinfected. My partner and I were both treated the day I found out. so how could I be still be having these symptoms if the medicine is suppose to work for both of us?
Answer
You should return to your doctor for another evaluation. This could be due to another infection, or to a failure of the first treatment. There are also times the symptoms take a while to go away even if the treatment did work. What you were prescribed was the right thing, but no treatment is perfect (unfortunately). Even a treatment that is 95 percent effective (for which there aren't many) will fail 1 in 20 times. With the thousands of cases of Chlamydia occurring, that's still a large number of people. For that reason, we recommend a "test of cure" sometimes, so that you can be checked after treatment and make sure the infection is gone.