Gonorrhea treatment available online today

If you test positive for gonorrhea don’t stress- it is treatable with antibiotics. You will work with your doctor to create a comprehensive treatment plan including an antibiotic prescription. Your partner(s) should also start a course of antibiotics as well if they’ve been exposed. Antibiotics work in 95% of gonorrhea cases. Refrain from sexual activity until your infection has cleared and your doctor gives you the go ahead.

The best medication for gonorrhea is a course of antibiotics. Azithromycin is most commonly prescribed, but for antibiotic-resistant strains of gonorrhea, the antibiotic ceftriaxone may be given intravenously in addition.

An online doctor can write you a lab referral so you can receive STI testing. This referral is required by most labs before you can receive testing. During your virtual visit, our doctors will hear your symptoms and refer you to your closest lab. Once your results come in the doctor will get in touch with you to give you an official diagnosis and treatment plan, including any necessary prescription medications.

It is possible to be reinfected with gonorrhea, during the same time that you are taking your treatment.

Gonococcal DNA will remain for up to 2 weeks after treatment. It is recommended that you test again 2 weeks, and 3 months following treatment.

It’s a bad idea to try to wait out a gonorrhea infection for two main reasons. First, the infection may get worse and spread to other areas of your body causing worsening symptoms and lasting damage to your reproductive organs, including fatal blood and joint conditions. Second, the longer you have gonorrhea the more likely you are to spread it. Considering gonorrhea is easily treated with antibiotics, and you can get prescribed online, there really is no good reason to delay treatment.

Gonorrhea symptoms should be resolved after treatment, but you may test positive for gonorrhea until two weeks after treatment.

Since gonorrhea is a bacterial infection, any antibiotic will kill it. However, for antibiotic-resistant strains, you may need to be given an intravenous dose of ceftriaxone, one of the cephalosporin antibiotics, in addition to oral azithromycin.

Gonorrhea can be treated in one to two weeks, although symptoms may resolve after a few days. However, it is important to take the full course of antibiotics to clear the infection.

The visible symptoms of gonorrhea include redness and swelling of the genitals, and abnormal discharge that is yellow or green in color. That said, not everyone with an infection will display these symptoms. In fact, more than 50% of women with gonorrhea show no symptoms.

Since gonorrhea is caused by a bacterial infection, gonorrhea treatment is a regimen of oral antibiotics. Some strains of gonorrhea in the US have become antibiotic resistant, sometimes called “Super Gonorrhea”. Therefore, a medical physician will decide on the best course of antibiotics, with some of the commonly recommended ones being: ceftriaxone, cefixime, doxycycline,  or azithromycin (the brand name is Zithromax). The infection should clear after one to two weeks. You should never stop taking antibiotics until the recommended course is finished, even if you think the infection cleared or you are feeling better.

Gonorrhea typically does not have an odor. That said, some women report a mushroom-like smell in the genital area.

Both of these STDs are caused by bacteria. They have many overlapping symptoms and are both treated with antibiotics. One is not worse than the other, they both have complications that can arise and should each be tested for as soon as you notice symptoms to determine the best course of treatment.

Untreated gonorrhea can spread to the blood and joints which can be fatal. It can also lead to complications such as increased risk of HIV which can also cause death. When treated promptly and effectively gonorrhea is not life threatening.

In most cases, gonorrhea is tested using a urine sample. If you have symptoms of oral gonorrhea or gonorrhea of the eyes, swabs will be taken from the symptomatic areas.

No, someone with gonorrhea cannot pass it along via kissing.

Gonorrhea has been called the clap for potentially hundreds of years. Slang terms for STDs are often common due to the social stigma around talking about them. They are usually based on the name of the disease itself or on an iconic aspect of the disease.

Gonorrhea is unique in that the slang term, “the clap,” does not have a known origin. However, there are a few interesting theories as to how the term came to exist.

The origin could come from old English. The word “clappan” was used to describe a beating or throbbing. This could refer to the painful, burning urination or swelling in the penis or vagina caused by gonorrhea.

A number of people believe that the name stems from a proposed treatment during medieval times of “clapping” the penis or slamming the penis between both hands (or a hard surface) to get rid of the discharge/pus and thus the infection. This theory has most likely gained popularity due to the treatment’s gruesome nature.

In the 1500’s, “clapier” was an old French word for brothel. The use of the clap then would have referred to the location where the disease most easily spread: brothels. In French, the disease then became known as “clapier bubo” meaning an infection of the penis resulting from a visit to a brothel.

There are also a few theories that come from more modern times. During the early 1900’s, GIs often were infected with gonorrhea during the World Wars. It was sometimes said that they had “the collapse,” which was shortened and transformed into the clap. A 1918 Medical journal is cited as referring to “gonorrhea clap” as well as calling it the “running range,” but does not describe why the name exists.