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Tested positive for chlamydia but partner was negative
Last year I tested positive for chlamydia after having symptoms and I was treated by a doctor with antibiotics for it. My partner and I had been together for over two years at this point and frequently have unprotected sex. She was tested and it was negative. I saw her results to verify. She never received any treatment. We waited a year and I recently tested again and I was negative. You would think I would surely test positive. Any ideas on how this could be possible? I have seen this situation before and everyone always replies the partner is lying. In this case there is no disputing the facts. Any doctors have input?
Isn't there a thing where you can get tested for genital chlamydia and miss oral chlamydia, and vice versa? That might explain why one partner would test positive and the other would test negative, either then or now.
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Yes, excellent point, though oral chlamydia is not at all common. It definitely could explain this, though.
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So I'm not a doctor - we don't have any doctors on this site.
But it seems to me either one of two things could have happened. Keep in mind I don't know anyone involved, and these are just based on facts about chlamydia.
1 - She got tested and treated before you did, and then when you tested, she got another test that was negative. The timeline on that would be really tricky, because it would count on you not having unprotected sex with her during and after her treatment until you got treated. It's possible, though.
2 - You got a false positive test result, and never had chlamydia. This is unlikely because you had symptoms.
How did you get chlamydia? If you get chlamydia symptoms, it usually happens shortly after infection, so it would have been a new infection, not an existing one from prior to when you and your girlfriend met.
I'm wondering if maybe you're missing what your partner was lying about. I don't know, though - I don't know her. Something isn't adding up here.
But it seems to me either one of two things could have happened. Keep in mind I don't know anyone involved, and these are just based on facts about chlamydia.
1 - She got tested and treated before you did, and then when you tested, she got another test that was negative. The timeline on that would be really tricky, because it would count on you not having unprotected sex with her during and after her treatment until you got treated. It's possible, though.
2 - You got a false positive test result, and never had chlamydia. This is unlikely because you had symptoms.
How did you get chlamydia? If you get chlamydia symptoms, it usually happens shortly after infection, so it would have been a new infection, not an existing one from prior to when you and your girlfriend met.
I'm wondering if maybe you're missing what your partner was lying about. I don't know, though - I don't know her. Something isn't adding up here.
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The symptoms I had were mild, disappearing at times. I never had discharge, but occasionally I would feel some pain when urinating. After receiving treatment it completely went away. This took place for about a year. All tests were urine samples. I feel like the test was probably wrong and the treatment worked for what ever condition was actually present.
It sounds quite plausible that happened. Usually the truth is the least complicated of the possible explanations, and a more complicated story (she lied / the doctor swabbed the wrong body part / split-second timing on treatment, etc.) was getting pretty complicated.
That last sentence was a little bit convoluted. I meant, usually if you have more than one choice when trying to figure out something that happened, the simplest is the one that is true. A lot of things would have to go oddly for the more complicated choice to be the one that is true. That makes the possibility that the test was wrong seem the more likely thing that happened.
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