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Test results show Chlamydia

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babymilkmama · 05/04/2017 09:21

Good morning,

We have been ttc for almost two years and have started all the tests etc to try and find out more about why we haven't had a baby. My first dc was conceived without even trying three years ago and so we were a bit disappointed as to why we are struggling.

My gp has just called me to say one of my blood results has shown evidence of a previous chlamydia infection and I'm booked in for swabs next week. I'm absolutely devastated and don't know how I'm going to tell my DH! I've never had any symptoms of an sti so must have had it for years and years. It's been five years since I slept with anyone except my husband and it must have caused some massive damage 😢 he's going to hate me and think I'm disgusting. The gp said not all chlamydia is sexually transmitted but looking online it says it is. I don't know what I'm going to say or do 😬

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Havingahorridtime · 05/04/2017 09:53

The GP said there was evidence of a previous chlamydia infection. He didn't say that there was an active infection. Could it be the tests showed some tube damage which is common in pelvic infections including those caused by chlamydia?
I wouldn't Form any conclusions until I had spoken to the GP and discussed it all properly.

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babymilkmama · 05/04/2017 09:51

@bitchpeas no nothing has ever shown up till she called me this morning to tell me. It's impossible though because I've not slept with anyone except DH since meeting him in 2013 and certainly not since having the baby in 2015.

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BitchPeas · 05/04/2017 09:50

Please stop blaming yourself. It takes two to tango so you have a 50% chance of it not being your fault! Why are you so sure it is?

ChardonnayKnickertonSmythe · 05/04/2017 09:50

You would have been checked in your first pregnancy, so it might be recent.

JellyWitch · 05/04/2017 09:50

What the previous poster said. It's automatically screened for so would have been picked up in your first pregnancy.

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babymilkmama · 05/04/2017 09:50

@juneau really? So I've got it sometime between then and now. I've 100% not slept with anyone else in that time. I have no idea how it could have happened.

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BitchPeas · 05/04/2017 09:49

Did a positive chlamydia test happen in your first pregnancy? If not then you've caught it since then.

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babymilkmama · 05/04/2017 09:49

Really? I don't know how this has happened. I've never cheated on him and have no idea how it's happened. I'm so scared to tell him. We are approaching fw and he's all up for getting into the April baby making. I can't morally sleep with him knowing I have an sti

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juneau · 05/04/2017 09:48

I thought all pregnant women were screened for STIs? I certainly was, both times, because I remember consenting to it. So if you'd had chlamydia during your first pregnancy it should've been picked up by a test then.

Placeanditspatrons · 05/04/2017 09:45

I think it would have been picked up before if it was an sti.

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babymilkmama · 05/04/2017 09:42

He's not slept with anyone else in the five years either. He won't talk about girls before me and says he hasn't slept with anyone till me. It's definitely me. I've literally had no symptoms at all and this test is the first I've heard. I've had a baby in that time too! I have no idea how I'm going to tell him. The gp said wait till Monday when I have swabs because it might be negative. She said chlamydia comes in many forms and is sometimes as simple as a chest infection. At the time of the blood test I had a water infection but she said that didn't show up.

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Placeanditspatrons · 05/04/2017 09:35

Well he could just as easily have infected you?
Dh gave it to me. We'd been together a while and got engaged and at that point stopped practicing safe sex (stupid really should have both been checked before hand) and as an extra engagement bonus he gave me chlamydia. I'm certain it was that way round as prior to him I'd always used condoms and also I was 'lucky' in that I got symptoms so it was picked up almost immediately.

However I didn't think it resolved without antibiotics so I don't know how you had a previous unknown infection.

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