Next Steps

Follow-up

Take all medications your health care provider prescribes. Your symptoms may go away before the infection is cured and you may feel much better, but finish taking all the antibiotics prescribed for you. Follow up with your doctor or in a clinic within 3 days to monitor improvement. Whether on oral or IV therapy, you usually improve within 72 hours.

• If you are being treated and your symptoms get worse prior to the 72-hour follow-up appointment, you should return to the doctor's office or hospital. If you do not improve, you may require additional testing and maybe surgery.
  
  
• You should not have sexual activity until the infection is cured. Any sexual partners you have had within 2 months of getting PID should also be treated.

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