Question about gonorrhea test accuracy…serious answers only, please?
I have a friend that has been married for 10 years. She has a history of urinary tract infections/UTI and yeast infections (gets UTI, takes antibiotic, then gets yeast infection). She took antibiotics for a UTI, and thought she was getting a "yeast" infection and used a 1-Day yeast medicine but her symptoms didn’t get better. She tells her husband that she’s going to get an appointment with the OB/GYN and he tells her he just started having a little discomfort while peeing/urinating. She says maybe he has a UTI or maybe her infection is causing him symptoms. She tells the OB/GYN and he tests her for STDs. His doc did the same. Her doc says she looks like she’s got bacterial vaginosis, his doc says he’s got urethritis. Later that week they get test results: She comes back positive for gonorrhea, he comes back negative. She swears that she has been faithful but so does he, and again his test was negative. She asks her Dr. if she could have gotten a false-positive and he says the tests are highly accurate. I found at least one news story where 5 women in Hawaii got false-positives (2 of them really had bacterial vaginosis, the other 3 had no infection at all). What I’m trying to get at is this: Is it possible that the gonorrhea test is perceived as highly accurate because the results usually don’t get challenged? I ‘m thinking that the majority of people being tested for STDs engage in sexual behavior that puts them at risk, therefore, they just accept that the test gave a true positive. Or they are in shock and trust their healthcare provider, so they don’t question it. Besides, "highly accurate" is not the same as "100% accurate" so doesn’t that statement in itself prove that false-positives happen?
Another thing, she said they had sex on Tuesday and she felt irritated Wednesday and used the 1-Day treatment, he started having discomfort on Friday, which sounds like she infected him, but he came back negative. Doesn’t that add to the possibility of her having a false-positive?
So please, serious answers only that address the false-positive issue. She’s already been told by her doc "highly accurate" and stuff like, "have you seen his results?" (she has),"if you didn’t cheat, he did" and "maybe he was already being treated" (I seriously don’t think he would have mentioned his problem to her if he was unfaithful and already knew he was being treated–why would he waste money on another Dr.’s appointment?). It just doesn’t seem to add up and I have a lot of faith in these 2 people and would love to be able to help them through this with a little support on the false-positive side.
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If in fact she never strayed in her marriage and her husband also never strayed, then obviously the test was wrong.
If she can take penicillin, then she should just go ahead if it is prescribed and take it - whether it’s for the std or what ever.
Now her husband tested negative, and if in fact he does somehow have this std, then eventually she will catch it again from him. If that happens, I would find it very difficult to believe that he really has not strayed. It has to be one or thje other, they both suspect that - but one knows it.
Given that both claim to have been true to one another and they face the possibility that one of them is not being truthful, to erase the poisonous seeds of doubt they’ll both need to go to counseling where the truth should be admitted if in fact there is an std.
I have had no symptoms of any sort but got a routine std test and yearly pap done and my results for gonorrhea were inconclusive. So therefore my dr. decided to recheck me only if i felt it necessary. So i went ahead and did it again. This time the results came back positive! I was furious because i had been in a three year relationship and had not been unfaithful so which i had felt obviously meant he had been. Well his results were indeed negative? So i was lost. He swears hes been faithful and we are together all the time. We even work together. But my dr. insist he has to be infected in order for me to have obtained it. I believe it was a false psitive i have no other way of explaining this. Trust me this has caused a lot of stress in our relationship which probably isnt going to make it out of this. He is furious with me and believes i have cheated. I know only i know what i have done but how do i prove to him i havent when all the evidence is against me!?!