How soon after exposure to gonorrhea will symptoms appear?
If symptoms appear, they usually appear in women within 10 days and in men within 2 to 5 days, but can take as long as 30 days to surface. Even if you don’t have symptoms, you can spread the infection to others if you don’t use condoms or dental dams during sex. How is it treated? Gonorrhea infections are treated with antibiotics. All partners must be treated. Once you are treated you will also need follow-up cultures and an examination. Although it is generally easy to treat, some gonorrhea organisms are becoming resistant to antibiotic drug treatment. Even if symptoms are relieved, it is important to take the entire prescription to make sure the infection is gone. If you find out that you are infected with gonorrhea, you should also notify your sex partner(s) so that they can be treated, even if they don’t have symptoms. This will reduce the risk of your partner(s) experiencing complications from an infection and will reduce your risk of being re-infected. You should not have sex wit
