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Untreated gonorrhea and chlamydia can lead to complications in women such as infertility, can a month be long enough to cause that damage? apt coming

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Possibly: Infertility from infection will depend, on part, on whether Fallopian tubes have been scarred.

Dr Vallury agreed

Answered 4/22/2017

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