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.
Gonorrhea
  • Gonorrhea is the second most common bacterial sexually transmitted disease (STD). Both men and women get it.
  • By having sex (vaginal, anal or oral sex) with an infected person
  • Most infected people—especially, infected women—don't have symptoms, so they can't tell. Even without symptoms, infected people can pass gonorrhea to every person they have sex with. When people with gonorrhea do have symptoms, they might experience pain when going to the bathroom or a discharge from the penis or vagina.
  • Gonorrhea 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 gonorrhea). PID causes problems now (abdominal pain) and problems later (difficulty getting pregnant or infertility).