Work out the treatment-based waiting point and a routine retesting reminder after chlamydia, gonorrhea or trichomoniasis. The date does not replace your clinic’s instructions.
* This is your own treatment-based waiting point, not confirmation that sex is safe or that infection is cured. Complete all treatment, allow partner waiting periods, resolve symptoms and follow any longer clinician instruction.
How to use
- Select the infection and, for chlamydia, the prescribed regimen you completed.
- Enter the completion date and answer the partner-treatment and symptom questions.
- Calculate the waiting point and repeat-testing reminder. Arrange any earlier test of cure with your clinician.
Retesting and a test of cure are different
Routine retesting looks for infection again after treatment, including reinfection. A test of cure checks whether treatment worked and is needed in particular circumstances. Ask about earlier follow-up if symptoms continue, doses were missed, you are pregnant or you had throat gonorrhea. Sex before partners finish treatment can lead to reinfection.
Methodology
CDC guidance specifies 7 days after single-dose chlamydia treatment, or completion of a 7-day course; gonorrhea requires a 7-day wait after treatment. Trichomoniasis requires completed treatment and resolved symptoms. Partner treatment and symptoms remain separate conditions. The routine reminder adds 3 calendar months to completion, clamping to the last day if necessary. This is an approximate scheduling reminder, separate from condition-specific tests of cure, and the trichomoniasis retest advice here is for sexually active women.