Gonorrhea after 9 years

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I've had on and off uti symptoms for 6 weeks, weeing up to 50 times a day and antibiotics but now they say urine clear.
I'm still weeing a lot and around my clitoris and urethra burns and stings all the time.
They are doing swabs and tests today, a paramedic from the gp called me today and one of her thoughts was gonorrhea.
For context I've been with DH for 9 years, neither of us have ever shown symptoms and I've had a baby in that time.
How likely is it that it laying dormant after all that time? Absolutely no chance DH cheated and neither have I!
Pharmacist thinks it's urtheritis after so much wee. Can it lay dormant for so long, google seems to say symptoms would eventually show. No pain during sex, no discharge.

@CatOnAStarCloud no they’re actual paramedics. Many are moving away from acute care and rapid response and taking roles in primary care. Usually because they’re burned out, or no longer want the shift rota.

That’s a bit weird. I would have assumed their training was very specific relating to emergencies, stabilising patients to be handed over to other people etc, not treating long term things.

I would have thought STDs would be the very last thing on the list of things paramedics would have to be trained to deal with.
There seem to be a whole lot of extra people drafted into surgeries these days though, mainly for the purpose of keeping patients away from the actual doctors and nurses.
I recently had a review of my repeat prescription by the "practice pharmacist" (not instigated or requested by me), who decided to remove/reduce/mess about with my medication, some of which is specified in my hospital letters. I had to make an appointment with a GP to sort it all out.

@fiftyandfat
I spoke to an actual gp today who was so lovely, have had blood tests and a bladder/kidney scan.
He said sti very very unlikely, more like I initially had an infection as there was small amounts of blood present at my first urine test and it's irritated my urethra plus wee is acidic anyway. He's booked me in for an internal exam as well just to put my mind at rest ref atrophy or such like and DH will be coming. Nothing to drink now but plain water.
I did mention that the paramedic had made me very anxious about the whole thing.
Ive also been in touch with a private hospital ref seeing a gynae if it continues.

Which country are you in? No one apart from your doctor should in any way be giving you anything but the very simplest medical advice, and certainly shouldn't be flagging up a possible STI without A LOT more evidence. I'm suspicious though that some of the new physicians assistants grades in the UK haven't yet got the memo (I have reason to believe this, which I won't go in to).

I work as a biomedical scientist in a microbiology lab, this is one of the things we test for. We have to be really really careful and make absolutely certain that any gonorrhea we find is definitely that - we use a variety of different methods, and if they don't all 100% point to gonorrhea, we send the isolate to a specialist reference lab for further testing. This is because a diagnosis of gonorrhea breaks marriages/families/relationships apart.

@TooTired2024
In the Uk.
Indeed. All my swabs came back as negative this avo. No STIs!

Hello OP - just wondering what your diagnosis may have been in the end I have similar symptoms and have done all the STI tests and they have come back negative. just wondering if you're better.