How long does it take for a woman with chlamydia to be infertile?
Chlamydia tends to be fairly silent, in that up to 70 percent of women who have chlamydia and carry it have no symptoms whatsoever, and potentially as high as 40 percent of all males who have chlamydia may also not have symptoms. Many clinics do recommend that individuals who have had unprotected sex should consider being tested for chlamydia periodically, especially when they are changing partners or getting into a new relationship. Protection for chlamydia is very important and one of the many reasons that we recommend condom use. It is very difficult to answer the question about how long it would take for a woman to not be able to have kids. Women who have chlamydia only infecting the cervix, where it does not go up and actually infect the fallopian tubes, will probably maintain pretty normal fertility rates. On the other hand, repeated episodes of fallopian tube infection with either chlamydia or gonorrhea increase a woman’s risk of infertility due to tubal blockage and scarring. T
