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Q: 30 Weeks Pregnant the Worst Thing!! Std!please Help

asked by: LILJAZ on May 23rd, 2006

New User

Hi

i m 30 weeks pregnant and I just been diagnosed with syphilis. I had that test done also in the beginning of the pregnancy and it was negative. Before my pregnancy I did that test along with other std tests a few times and it always came out negative.My baby father also got tested for all those last year a few times everything always came out negative. I ve been with him for about 18 month. Before I was with someone else. So now that I found this devestating news out I m going crazy I don't know what 's gonna happen. I read a few things about syphilis what affect it has on unborn or newborn babies. They could be born still, have problems with any organ. Have face deformation or mental retardation. I had an ultrasound done at 20 weeks doctors said everything looks healthy and at 25 weeks I had a 3d done for fun and the face looks fine to me. I just found this out a week ago and at that time they have giving me the penicillin shot already wich is the cure. Well I know it's the cure for me. But what about the baby?? Will the baby have medical problems now or might I loose the baby??They said to cure it takes 1 week. To me it seems so unreal how could it happen if my man never cheats and I have prove I believe him in that situation he wouldn' t lie anymore.And I don't sleep around neither. The most I did is shake someone's hand is that possible?? Plus I don't hav no symptoms non of the leisures or never had fewer I had a sore throat thru the pregnancy but sore throat been a problem my whole life. Please help I don't know what to do all I do is crying and thinkin what's gonna happen I don't deserve this I m a good person and don't do nobody no harm. I know u might tell me to ask my doctor but my appointment is in 2 days I can't wait that long nomore I need to know something now. Please help I would apreciate fast reply
thanks

Replies(10)

Mabel

replied on May 23rd, 2006

Moderator

Well, either you have had syphilis for a long period of time, or your boyfriend has given this to you. I'm not going to argue about his fidelity or anything. I'm just stating the facts, plain and simple. Either you had this and brought it to the relationship or he gave it to you.

Something I would question would by why did you have so many tests for stds? Why did your boyfriend get tested a 'few' times last year? You two have obviously been worried about something. Also, a pap smear is not a test for stds. A pap smear is only a test for cervical abnormalities. You are not tested for stds unless you ask to be tested for stds.

A google search is a good thing, I found loads of information. However, you really will need to speak with your doctor for specifics.

Http://www.Cdc.Gov/std/stdfact-stds&pr egnancy.Htm

http://www.Nlm.Nih.Gov/medlineplus/syphili s.Html

http://www.Ashastd.Org/learn/learn_syphili s.Cfm

http://womenshealth.Gov/faq/stdsyph.Htm

it looks to me like you and the baby should be ok if you get treated. But, like I said before, you will need to speak with your doctor about this.

.Always wear condoms. .Always!!

no glove, no love.

~rubmybuddahbelly~

replied on May 23rd, 2006

Active User, very eHealthy

I was told I had hpv which is also an std in the begging of my pregnancy.. Come to find out my boyfriend had gotten from cheating on me and passed it to me. It took me getting pregnant and the symptoms getting worst for me to find out.

I hope all goes well for you and u find out what you need and if u need anyone to talk to dont be afraid to ask !!

replied on May 23rd, 2006

Experienced User

Gasp

Maybe it can lie dormant in your system or something-although, I think it would still show up on a test
you can only catch it though sexual intercourse, or very, very intimate cotact.

~casting suspicious glances in your boyfriend's direction~

your baby should be ok in terms of malfomation-babies are fully developed by 14 weeks of pregnancy, all they do for the rest of the time is get bigger. If he had no facial or developmental abnormalities at the 20 week ultrasound, then he's fine- he can't un-develop, if you know what I mean. He can, however contract the infection through the placenta, and it can damage his internal organs.
Hopefully, with your treatment the impact will be reduced. It's when the disease is untreated that most of the problems occur.

I wish you and your baby all the very best.

Mabel

replied on May 23rd, 2006

Moderator

~rubmybuddahbelly~ wrote:

i was told I had hpv which is also an std in the begging of my pregnancy.. Come to find out my boyfriend had gotten from cheating on me and passed it to me. It took me getting pregnant and the symptoms getting worst for me to find out.

I hope all goes well for you and u find out what you need and if u need anyone to talk to dont be afraid to ask !!

hpv can stay in your system for 10 years without being noticed. You could have gotten hpv from anyone you have ever had sex with. What symptoms of hpv did you have?

LILJAZ

replied on May 23rd, 2006

New User

the Worst Thing Could Happen!!!please Help

Hi

i did get tested often because I have a yeast infection problems so I went to many different doctors every time I went they did tests for std's and they told me wich ones.Also me and my boyfriend did few tests before we get envolved and since some std/s show up after 3 month in the blood that's why we did it again to make sure. I haven't had this I can remember clearlly how I did the syphilis test before pregnancy at a health department and also at the beginning of my pregnancy. So I didn't give it to him. Or does the disease not show up in the blood for over a year??It says it everywhere that syphilis will show up in the blood the latest in 3 month. Question are you a doctor or just a chatter?? I also read that some viral infections that a person already has may affect the blood test for syphilis and it comes out positive even tho it's not. Could it be???

LILJAZ

replied on May 23rd, 2006

New User

What is hpv??? Is it herpes??? I don't understand wherever I read about it it says it should show up after 3month. I don't want my baby to pass away or to be disabled. Right before my boyfriend I did have a one night stand but I don't usually do that. And before like 4 years ago I had a serious boyfriend for 2 years but he was like a virgin young and very shy he only had one woman in his life before me so I for sure didn't catch nothing from him and as far as I know all std's show up the latest after 3 month even hiv but it could show up after 9 month the latest in the rarest cases.

replied on May 24th, 2006

Experienced User

You;ve been with nobody but your boyfriend for 18 months, and you both had the all clear before and during your relationship.
You got the all clear just before you got pregnant, and after- what about 10 weeks pregnant right? So, 20 weeks, later, you get a positive.
Sometime in the last 3-4 months, you contracted it from somewhere.
The only place you could have gotten it is your boyfriend. I'm sorry to say it, but it's the only thing that makes sense.

It wouldn't take 18 months to test positive. When they say something is lying dormant in your system, it means you test positive for it, but have no symptoms-it's there, but it's dormant. If all the information you've found says it will take a maximum of 3 months to show up, that means that's the longest time it's been recorded as taking- do you know what I mean?
So you almost certainly had to have picked it up in the last 4 months, unless the first round of tests just missed it- but either way, you definately got it since you've been with your boyfriend.
Speak to him.
He needs to be tested again now too, if he hasn't been already.

LILJAZ

replied on May 24th, 2006

New User

Fists of all thank yall for all your support and help. Well yes I did speak to my man and he keeps saying he wasn't with nobody. And it looks like he wasn't with nobody for real. He comes hom excactly after work he picks me up from my job all the time. And he's soo proud that i' m his girl he always introduce me to everybody. Plus his job is a sanitation job so he couldn't have been doing it there neither not like in an office where people get it on. I don't think anybody wants to have anything to do with him while he's workin in that dirty uniform. Well but we will see he did the test already it will come out in 1 week. But I feel a lil better it seems like all this bad things like stillbirth and all that can only happen if u don't have no cure. But if u do it should be ok.
Has any of ya ever had an std?? While pregnant was there any complication??? I m also seriously thinking that they might have mixed up my blood test with someone else.

replied on May 24th, 2006

Experienced User

I've never had one, thank god, and, I was lucky enough to have two healthy pregnancies.
What kind of "sanitation" work does your boyfriend do? Does he regularly come into contact with peoples bodily fluids? Is there any chance he handled something in the line of his work that might have infected him?

lil_blaze2004

replied on May 25th, 2006

Moderator

el wrote:

i've never had one, thank god, and, I was lucky enough to have two healthy pregnancies.

What kind of "sanitation" work does your boyfriend do? Does he regularly come into contact with peoples bodily fluids? Is there any chance he handled something in the line of his work that might have infected him?

that's exactly what I was gonna ask.

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