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Chlamydia or something else?

This is about to be a long story so bare with me. This all started about 3 and 1/2 months ago when I had unprotected sex with a girl I barely knew. 3 weeks after I started getting a burning sensation when peeing so I automatically knew i had an std. Needless to say i go to the doctors and they tell me i have chlamydia so they prescribe me azithromycin 1g, pill form. Took that, made my symptoms worse. I now am having discharge and still tingling on the tip of my penis. I have to go to urinate all the time and it feels as though I am leaking. I go back to the doctors and they tell me my insurance doesn't cover doxycycline so they prescribe me another gram of azithromycin. This time in powdered form. I take that and nothing. Go back and another round of azithromycin is prescribed. Now I'm angry. How can they prescribe me the same medication 3 times without thinking that this could be something else altogether? Anyways my symptoms were still present so I go back and my doctors had enough of me and refers me to go see a urologist. Now I go to my urologist and all he says is you should take doxycycline before anything else and sets me on my way. I take doxycycline Hyclate for 7 days, 2 pills a day. Not only did this not work but it made my tongue yellow.. Why?? I just came back from my second visit to the urologist and i forgot to mention the yellowing of my tongue. I told him i still have symptoms of leakage with no actual leakage, at least I don't think there's any leakage. He says he doesn't know whats going on since azithromycin and doxycycline are both 99% effective and i agree with him but that alone should tell him that it's probably something else. Anyways he tells me i need a cystoscopy to see if there's any scarring in my urethra or something like that. Here are some facts before making a decision. I took raw apple cider vinegar and it made the feeling of leakage go away for a while but it came back. I also have taken saw palmetto, garlic extract, cats claw and echinacea. Nothing has worked except the raw apple cider vinegar.. What can this be? Should I really get a cystoscopy? is that actually necessary? Or should i just drink raw apple cider vinegar for the rest of my life and hopefully that'll cure it? This could all just be in my head to be honest.

Here are my symptoms if you want to skip the whole backstory:
1.)Itchy genitals
2.)feeling of soreness during urinating, not burning or anything harsh, just tenderness
3.)always wet tip of penis, like damp kinda. no real icky smell
4.)feeling like I'm leaking but not leaking. or maybe i am and that's whats' contributing to my damp penis

Heres what i've taken if you don't want to read the backstory:
1.)azithromycin 3 times...
2.)doxycycline hyclate once, 2 pills a day for 7 days
3.)raw apple cider vinegar
4.)garlic (heard it's an amazing antibacterial)
5.)saw palmetto for 3 days
6.)cats claw
7.)echinacea
8.)sage tea (also heard amazing antibacterial)

and yes i've been eating prebiotics and probiotics after all these antibiotics.. i need help
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3149845 tn?1506627771
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How did they confirm chlmaydia? Urine test, swab of your urethea? 3 weeks is kinda on the outside window for std symptoms to show up, 7 days is most common. Also none of the 4 symptoms you list suggest and std.
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Urine test! I've had to do it about 4 times now and each time it seems to come back positive for chlamydia.. the first time i got the results, i waited a week after the antibiotics to take another test and it came back negative. I thought i was cured but the symptoms came back so i took another test which came back positive.. Then they took one at the urologist and they said it was positive for chlamydia.. i don't understand. I haven't had sex since the unprotected sex so it's not reinfection from that
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3149845 tn?1506627771
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The medication that was prescribed is correct and chlamydia is a bacteria and easily treated with antibiotics. If your constantly testing positive for it it is rather strange. Ive had it a few time in my life and always went away with one treatment. Also note the more pronounced symptom is urethra itching not burning.
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It honestly could all just be in my head.. i tested positive after azithromycin but i just had to give out another urine sample after taking the doxycycline. If they tell me I'm negative for chlamydia then it's officially all in my head.
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