Man what a fun thread, hell I think it's just put me off sex for life, that's it, where's the orange Robes, I'm becoming a monk and going back to being a virgin again for a while !
Man what a fun thread, hell I think it's just put me off sex for life, that's it, where's the orange Robes, I'm becoming a monk and going back to being a virgin again for a while !
cdnmatt (April 19th, 2016)
I'll put my hand up here (!) - I've contracted Chlamydia several times in Thailand. I always used condoms for anal but not for oral - so clearly I can work out what's happening and would hazard a guess (no evidence) that its entirely possible that the majority of sex-workers in Thailand are infected with Chlamydia
One of the major problems is that often the boys who swing both ways will contract if from females and so the vicious circle perpetuates.
Another problem is that in males it can be almost symptom-less - in my case I noticed only tender/painful balls a week or so after getting home - no pain on urination or discharge as you'd often (but not always)get with gonorrhea.
In females it can be completely symptomless - hence they often dont know they are infected and as I said the circle of infection just perpetuates. Although symptom-less the untreated complications can be severe.
The final problem I found is that in the UK NHS there is NO follow up check whatsoever - you are diagnosed (most often via an extremely painful "dipstick" down the urethra - because its cheaper than a pee test) and automatically prescribed Doxycycline - but no test whatsoever is done to check if it has worked (and it is not 100% effective)!! So its possible that there are significant numbers in the UK never mind anywhere else who have NOT actually been cured and are happily spreading it even further. Of course nobody wants to complain because they don't want to admit they had it in the first place!
So I now self-treat with 100mg of Doxycycline daily as a prophylactic during the trip and follow up with a single dose of 1 gram of Azithromycin on my return. Since I started doing that - no problems.
....and by the time Doxyclycline (for example) becomes useless, I'll be dead - so forgive me if I don't worry about it.
*sigh*
scotty, you won't be the only one dead! The over use of antibiotics will eventually make all of them useless and then many people will die needlessly. Thailand is a perfect example of people self-medicating for any and everything and never follow the regimen till its end.Sigh.
christianpfc (April 23rd, 2016)
Well done to Scottish guy re telling us about the chlamydia you have gotten in Thailand; so lets' hope it persuades more people to use condoms for oral sex too.
Oliver (April 20th, 2016)
As if this is not enough of a bad scenario, this is another -
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4378521/The development of new antibiotics by the pharmaceutical industry, a strategy that had been effective at combating resistant bacteria in the past, had essentially stalled due to economic and regulatory obstacles. Of the 18 largest pharmaceutical companies, 15 abandoned the antibiotic field . . .
Because antibiotics are used for relatively short periods and are often curative, antibiotics are not as profitable as drugs that treat chronic conditions, such as diabetes, psychiatric disorders, asthma, or gastroesophageal reflux. A cost–benefit analysis by the Office of Health Economics in London calculated that the net present value of a new antibiotic is only about $50 million, compared to approximately $1 billion for a drug used to treat a neuromuscular disease.