How bout instead of asking the internet you ask your doctor so you know for a fact they are qualified to give an answer at all. I'll be honest, I'm not gonna believe a damn person on here in not gonna believe web MD or anything on the internet because well, news flash, not everything you read on the internet is true and not every person on here is who they say they are. I am definitely not qualified to give you an actual answer but my opinion is if you took any of these people and met them I bet not one is who they claim to be. So be smart ask your doctor.
since when has the US government ever been truly interested in the health of it citizens? medicine is nothing more than a business.
Your mom must've had it.. Then passed on to you during birth
In North America, the only way they know it can be caught is through unprotected intercourse with an infected person. However here's some food for thought for you... I personally caught an STD that is known to be only STD related disease, at an age where I had no intercourse and both of my parent tested negative for it. I caught it in a part of the world that they are used to see that disease in another form than sexually transmitted. Yet, the doctors here wouldn't believe me. Perhaps the general public will say I lie to the roof. However there are other ways to catch a lot of disease other than through sex. Is Chlamydia one of them, I also wonder about it but we'll probably only know the answer to that once they do Human testing in unconventional ways and test it through and through in other ways than through sexual contacts. I know that this does not give an answer but I think it's time we question the ways we're looking at a problem and find all the solutions to it and not just the obvious ones.
I'm not an MD, but I know logic, and there is something wrong with the logic you stated. You said it can only be contracted through "oral, anal, or vaginal sex", which implies the bacteria is present in the mouth "oral". Then technically, can't it be transmitted oral to oral? And oral to oral contact does not always imply sex.
I'm not an MD, but there is something wrong with the logic of what you stated here... You said it can only be contracted through oral, anal, and vaginal sex, but "oral" implies the presence of the bacteria is in the mouth, which also means it can be transmitted orally (mouth to mouth), which doesn't necessarily involve sex... am I wrong?
I tested positive for chlamydia today, but I've been with the same girl for over a year. I know (pretty much for a fact) that none of us have been messing around. It's not just because I trust her, but also because we know each other's schedule very well so we wouldn't have a chance to cheat even if we wanted to. When you're in a close relationship, a slight abnormality in communication (even something simple like going to the convenience store during off hours) is very noticeable.
I'm a very logical person, so I'm not going to rule out the possibility that the person I trust messed around. However, I think that possibility is more remote than sharing toilet seats and other off ended possibilities. Based on what I've seen here and elsewhere online, there is definitely something off about the "you have to have sex (implying cheating)" statement. In my opinion, there are too many genuine people with real serious stories who are raising this question (including myself). They're not just a bunch of naive people who don't want to accept facts or their own ignorance about their partners.
Here's my hypothesis on what might have happened in my situation, and possibly others given the following things I know:
1) Sex, does not imply cheating.
2) transmission of STDs in general tends to happen after multiple contacts; meaning it's not likely to happen after having sex once. So if cheating was involved, it would probably be in the form of an affair, not a one night stand.
3) Chlamydia can be present in the body without symptoms for a while (especially in women from what I read. not trying to be sexist, just what I read).
My hypothesis: I think she had it before we met, and just contracted it recently and started showing symptoms. It's possible that I had it before I met her, and only recently developed symptoms, but that would be #2 on my list. So the bottom line is, one of us might have had it before we met, and only recently did my symptoms show up. That's the only logical explanation I can come up with for my test results and what I know about my partner...
And on a side note, this sounds remote...but someone here said she got it from her bird because birds actually carry a form of chlamydia. From what I read, the strains in birds are different than the kind in humans...however my girlfriend did work closely with a lot of birds for about a year before we met.
People say you can only get chlamedia from sex, but there are cases where it is in the form of an eye infection. I think we can all agree that no one is having eye-sex.