Re: Miscarriage and Misoprostol Not Helping

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PID is sexually transmitted, but a lot of other problems can masquerade as it. If she did not have positive culture for gonorrhea or chlamydia, then diagnosis may be wrong.

At Sun, 23 Feb 2003, hina wrote: >
>A friend of mine is a virgin and diagnosed (in Feb. 2003) with Pelvic Inflammatory Disease (PID). Is PID always a sexually transmitted disease or could there be some other reason for that? If not, could the reason be ascertained through ultrasound? She had oral sex two years ago and had some rubbing of penis on her vagina but did not take it inside at all.Could it still be a sexually transmitted disease? Please reply
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>Thank you for an early response.

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