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Q: Trichomonas Infection: did partner transmit a STD via Infide
asked by: DoctorQuestion on October 23rd, 2006
I have only been with one guy for nearly ten years and a couple of years ago I contracted tricamonus, I was wondering if he cheated on me and then I got it, or if a person can have it for that long and not know it. I went on a week long vacation and about two weeks after I got back I started having symptoms. Does this sound like a cheating thing or could he have had it for nearly eight years before giving it to me?


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Dr. Nikola Gjuzelov , MD
replied on October 27th, 2006
Sexual Health - Women Answer A1712
Vaginal inflammation (colpitis) due to a Trichomonas vaginalis is a common sexually transmitted disease (STD). Males usually don’t get the infection because the urethra is more resistant to the infective agent. In rare cases, Trichomonas can affect the urethra, prostate or epididymis in males. Males are usually non-symptomatic transmitters of the infection. Females can get the infection in rare cases of very bad hygiene of the genitals, as well as via unprotected sex. In your case, it doesn’t seem likely that your partner had the infection for 8 years. Even if he was a non-symptomatic transmitter, you would have gotten the infection much earlier.



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