Gonorrhea

Gonorrhoea found in pregnancy

Picked up at an antenatal screen. Told it is treatable but I am struggling to stop worrying about the baby.

salt_marsh 5 months ago

NoteMember experience, not medical advice. Symptoms overlap between infections and only a test can tell them apart.

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open_window 5 months ago

Treatment in pregnancy is established and the first line injection is used in pregnancy, so you are not being given a compromise option.

The reason it is screened for is that untreated infection at delivery can cause a serious eye infection in the newborn. Treated before then, that risk is dealt with.

wool_coat 5 months ago

Expect a test of cure. It is more consistently recommended in pregnancy than outside it, and it is the appointment worth protecting in a calendar that is already full of appointments.

greytide 5 months ago

Your partner needs treating too, otherwise the loop reopens before delivery. That part sometimes gets lost when all the attention is on the pregnancy.

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