Please don’t judge me. I tested for syphilis and was positive in 2016 and had full treatment, further blood tests have confirmed that the infection was gone but the antibodies stay in your blood for life unfortunately, even though you don’t have the infection.
I received a letter today from the obstetrics department for an appointment and had no idea what it was for, rang the receptionist and she for some reason starting talking about hiv and hepatitis which scared me, she then confirmed it was negative which i knew. Then she said I was positive for syphilis. I told her this was an old infection and that I had been treated years ago, she said that they couldn’t really interpret the pathology results and they will get someone who can to ring me back. Now I’m panicking - surely four years after treatment there is no threat to my baby? I don’t want to keep going over my past as i am shameful about it, and spoke to a midwife following my booking appointment bloods who confirmed that she could see it was a previous infection and the baby would be fine and I wouldn’t have to go over this again, so why do I now have an appointment for it? Has anyone else experienced anything like this? Feeling really down even thinking about it now