Drug and Alcohol Addiction: Sexually Transmitted Infection (STI) Symptoms of Chlamydia in Men - Outpatient Program

You will learn from The Right Step Outpatient treatment program that Chlamydia affects men of all backgrounds and economic levels, including alcoholics and drug users.  Some of the information that will be provided to you in your outpatient addiction treatment will include the specific symptoms of Chlamydia that may occur in men.  While there may not be any symptoms, it is also possible that a man with Chlamydia may experience pain when urinating, a genital discharge, swollen and tender testicles or even a fever.

If Chlamydia spreads to the testicles it can cause epididymitis.  Chlamydia may also cause reactive arthritis, particularly in young men.  The discharge that may be experienced in men can be a white, cloudy or watery discharge.  If epididymitis is caused sterility may result if this STI is not treated within 6 to 8 weeks. Chlamydia causes more than 250,000 cases of epididymitis in the USA each year.

Addiction Treatment Program - Chlamydia Detection

During your addiction treatment program at The Right Step, you will also learn about the medical methods for detecting Chlamydia.  These may include taking swab samples from the urethra, testing voided urine and collecting a culture is also useful in some circumstances and is currently the only assay approved for testing non-genital specimens.

Chlamydia may be treated with Azithromycin, 1 gram oral as a single dose, or Doxycycline 100 milligrams twice daily for seven days. Also used for Chlamydia treatment are Tetracycline, Erythromycin and Amoxicillin once a day until infection subsides.