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Contagious after rocephin (ceftriaxone) shot? gonorrhea

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NO: Rocephin (ceftriaxone) single dose shot will cure gonorrhea and it will not be contagious.

Answered 3/26/2020

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I had taken a 10 day course of doxycycline then had a rocephin shot 3 days later with a 10 day course of levaquin if I did have oral gonorrhea/chlamydia would that have helped?

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If i was given a 1-dose rocephin shot and 7-day doxycycline but was not infected with clymydia or gonorrhea and a week later tested positive for trichomonous could this cause a false positive test result for syphilis and/or herpes 1 and 2?

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I had a rocephin shot on September 9 with a 10 day course of levaquin 3 or 4 days prior to that I had completed a 10 day course of doxycycline. I fear I may have had oral gonorrhea/chlamydia. Was tested two days ago could I test positive?

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Taking 14 day dose of doxycycline for chlamydia and a rocephin shot for gonorrhea when is it okay to have sex.. the day after treatment? Or do you wait longer?

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A member asked:

Yesterday, i recieved a shot of rocephin (ceftriaxone) and four pills of azithromycin(treatment for gonorrea and chlamidia), what's next?

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