STD: The Facts
The following information was provided in part by the Medical Institute for Sexual Health. For more information please visit their website at www.medinstitute.org.

NOTE: If you have been sexually active or you think you may have been exposed to a sexually transmitted disease, see your physician for a complete medical exam.
Chlamydia
  • Chlamydia is the most common bacterial sexually transmitted disease (STD). Both men and women get it; particularly young men and women.
  • You get it from having sex with an infected person
  • Most infected people—especially women—don't have symptoms, so they can't tell. Even without symptoms, infected people can pass chlamydia to every person they have sex with. When people with chlamydia do have symptoms, the symptoms may include pain when going to the bathroom or a "discharge" coming from the penis or vagina.
  • Chlamydia can be treated with antibiotics. But if you don't know you're infected, you won't be looking for treatment. If you have had sex, see your doctor and get checked. Don't put it off. If treatment is delayed, infected women can get a pelvic inflammatory disease (a serious complication of chlamydia). PID causes problems now (abdominal pain) and problems later (difficulty getting pregnant or infertility).