After finishing a seven day treatment on doxycycline for chlamydia, how long does someone have to wait to have unprotected sex again?

The seven day: count starts the first day you start antibiotics. Don't have sex for a week = 7 days.

Whoa: No unprotected sex without a 6 month exclusive relationship, No unprotected sex until you help your partner be cleared of the same infection you were treated for. Women's symptoms can be more silent than men's, with serious consequences. Asking if someone is clean (no symptoms), is not enough to protect you.

7 days: Unprotected sex shoud only be in a commited relationship. Use condoms for all other contacts to protect yourself against STDs

Be careful: regardless of whether you have been cured from your STI, it is not a good idea to continue to have unprotected sex in this day and age. antibiotics will at some point fail you and HIV and hepatitis rates are back on the rise in younger populations that do not remember the HIV/AIDs outbreak. Flip side: If you and your partner are attempting to get pregnant, you should both be tested for cure prior

Test of cure: You might want to get a test of cure to make sure you really are cured before going back to unprotected sex. Also, it might be a good idea to make sure your partner is free of disease before re-engaging in unprotected sex.

Depends: If you finished the entire length of antibiotic course you should be safe in terms of not communicating the chlamydia. But, as you might have guessed, we would always recommend having protected intercourse, especially at age 19. A condom everytime is a great idea

You are there: You abstain for seven days from the start of antibiotic treatment. Take care.

Chlamydia: Forty eight hours after treatment, but a culture to prove it is gone is necessary. Also, your partner should have been treated, and if you have had recent multiple partners, they should have as well. The problem is that after treatment, anyone could reintroduce chlamydia if they have not been treated, and most women who have it , do not have symptoms.

You should...: be able to after completing treatment....but if you should is a different topic...you've just been treated for an STD (sexually transmitted disease). You were lucky it was something easily treatable. The best advice here is to have protected sex until your in a monogamous relationship (and maybe even then too). Just something to think about.