WOMENS-HEALTH Messages for May, 2000: Re: Discharge question

Re: Discharge question

From: R. Daniel Braun, MD (anonymous@obgyn.net)
Fri, 26 May 2000 08:46:21 -0500

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At Thu, 25 May 2000, alana wrote: >
>I know that considerable attention has been paid to vaginal discharges
>on this forum, but I really need advice. I am a young women does not
>have access to a health care provider at this time, I am at home for
>summer break and my parents do not know that I am sexually active. I
>must pay for all of the treatment that I receive at the campus health
>center, so I only go when the situation is dire. To get to the point,
>for a brief period in my life, I was very sexually active and I did not
>protect myself twice. I noticed that I soon began to have a vaginal
>discharge, so I went to the campus healthe center. The doctor ( who is
>not a gyn, but just a regular campus doctor) told me that I probably had
>chlamidiya, and gave me a treatment for it. The dischrge has persisted
>though. I went back once and he gave me a different treatment for
>chlamidiya and said that I could also have gonnorhea which travels with
>chla. i was also treated for that. I still have a discharge. It makes
>me feel self-conscious, but has no odor and causes no irritation. I
>don't know if i still have an infection, or if it is not yeast from all
>of the medicine that I have been taking. I am also on BC pills. Please
>advise.

This sounds like a normal discharge. The only way a diagnosis of chlamydia or gonorrhea can be made for certain is by culturing the cervix.

RDB

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R. Daniel Braun, MD FACOG  FOG

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