Chlamydia update - 3 years of pain

After August 2014 sex in Japan, both partners tested positive for chlamydia; antibiotics cleared infection but not his joint pain. Inflammation once made walking, standing, sitting, coughing, or reaching the toilet extremely painful; symptoms persisted five months after returning. By July 2017 episodes were milder and occurred only two or three times yearly; shea-butter scent still evokes sexual arousal.

Severe consequences have eased, but nostalgia and pleasure-based self-justification minimize the infection’s continuing impact.