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A male asked:
Can my prostatitis be passed to my wife and cause pid? chlamydia and gonorrhea urine naat test negative .
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Dr. Hunter Handsfieldanswered
Infectious Disease 55 years experience
Probably not, but...: Prostatitis isn't an STD, and with negative gonorrhea and chlamydia, probably no PID risk for your wife. However, some docs mistakenly diagnose nongonococcal urethritis (an STD) as prostatitis. If you've had abnormal discharge from your penis, it's probably NGU, not prostatitis. If so, and if you had sex w/ your wife after the source of your infection, your wife could be at risk & needs treatment.
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Dr. Hunter Handsfield commented
Infectious Disease 55 years experience
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For more information, go online and look up chronic pelvic pain syndrome; to start, there's an excellent Wikipedia article, also see information from the Stanford University dept of Urology. Almost certianly you have no infection and further antibiotics won't help. But you can be sure it's nothing dangerous for you or partners. Your symptoms probably will fade once you understand this. Good luck!
Mar 12, 2015
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