Could it be something else?

[confused_87]

I am 34 weeks pregnant, and went to the hospital a week ago with abdominal pain. They sent my urine to the lab for analysis and the nurse had my fiancé leave the room then informed me that it was “trichomoniasis”.  She said that I had to have gotten it within the last month.  When I got home, I looked up information on the internet about it.  I was concerned about the information I read, so I called my doctor’s office and spoke to the ob nurse.  I explained that they just did a urine test, but everything I had read said that it could not be diagnosed as “trich” without doing a vaginal swab.  She said this was a true statement and had me schedule an appointment for the following day.  Both the OB Nurse and the nurses in the hospital said that he needs to be treated as well.
I had to schedule my appointment with a different doctor than I usually see.  When I expressed my concern with him, he said that they can find it just by doing a urine analysis.  He also told me that it can sit dormant in your system.  He also said that my fiancé doesn’t need to be treated unless I get it again.

So I guess my questions are…
Can “trich” sit dormant?
Should my fiancé be treated as well before we are intimate again, since my treatment is almost complete?
Could they have diagnosed me wrongly since they did not do a swab, or can it be diagnosed with just a urine sample?
I have had 3-4 UTI’s with this pregnancy, and a severe UTI with my first son (He will be 3 in March) to the point I was kept in the hospital overnight… Could this be another UTI, or could those times have been “trich” and it was wrongly diagnosed?

Thank you for your help and your time,
Confused and Needing Help

[gracefromHHP]

definitely your partner needs treated for trich. trich is hard to detect in males so typically they just treat the  male when the female is diagnosed as having it. do not have unprotected sex with your partner until you've both been treated properly!  these are the cdc recommendations and clinicians should be following them.

you can  test for trich in urine.

trich showing up like this would be unusual.  did you have a full std screening , including herpes testing, at the beginning of your pregnancy? did your spouse?  typically herpes testing isn't a part of routine std testing unless you specifically request it and you might as well cover all your bases since you are pregnant and dealing with this to boot so you don't get any surprises later on.

grace

[confused_87]

The point I was trying to make in all that was that I don't know which information to rely on since I am getting contridicting answers.  I'm just trying to figure out what is actually going on, and what information is actually right.  

[Vance2335]

1. I think dormant is not a good term to use. You can have trich and not have symptoms but it is still an active infection.
2. Yes
3. I thought that it could be done with a urine sample myself, but not 100% since a Dr is saying something different and something different was done.
4. Probably UTI's at the time since it was almost 3 years ago, and if you had symptoms 3 yrs ago they would have kept up. So probably not wrongly diagnosed.

Trich is normally transmitted sexually but I have seen too many women and read some articles say they got it other ways (dirty towles, hot tub and things like that). So I am not willing to say this is only associated sexually.