WOMENS-HEALTH Messages for March, 2003: Re: Getting Sick after Sex???

Re: Getting Sick after Sex???

From: Richard Chudacoff, MD (anonymous@obgyn.net)
Sun, 23 Mar 2003 18:37:05 -0600 (CST)

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At Thu, 20 Mar 2003, Haillie wrote: >
>I'm 20 years old, and always get a really bad strep throat infection
>after sleeping with a new guy. It is always the exact same infection,
>and does not occur until after I have actual intercourse with him.
>Kissing, oral sex, and manual sex have no effect, and neither does the
>amount of time I wait before we go to bed (from one night stands to one
>month). Is this normal? It's so strange, because it ALWAYS happens a
>few days after the first time we have sex, but then I never get it again
>until the next guy. Only one of these men ever got it, and his
>infection was much milder than mine. It usually takes at least 2
>different antibiotics to kill the bugger off, and other strep infections
>respond just fine to a basic penicillin. Is this common? Any help or
>insight as to why this is always happens would be greatly appreciated.
>Is there anything I can do about it, other than just to always get sick
>and deal with it? Thanks!! Haillie

I don't have a real answer for you. It just may be that your immune system is hyperreactive to any foreign bodies. Remember your tonsils are just large lymph glands and may be that these lymph glands are stimulated whenever you have sexual intercourse. The same thing used to happen in the whenever I drank lemon juice.

-- Richard Chudacoff, MD, FACOG Chudacoff Obstetrics & Gynecology, PLLC Sugar Land, TX

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