The bacteria that normally causes gonorrhoea is mainly found in the discharge from the penis and in vaginal fluid. Typical symptoms include a thick green or yellow discharge from the vagina or penis, pain when peeing, in women bleeding between periods. Like chlamydia, you don’t always get symptoms.

If you have had sex with a new partner, and you’ve not used a barrier method, i.e. condoms and women’s condoms, it is always a good idea to get both of you checked out to make sure everything’s okay.

Gonorrhoea is really important because it can cause infertility in women. The treatment is a single antibiotic injection, and a single antibiotic tablet. The injection is given at the lower end of the back. Clinicians will give you a small injection of lidocaine, which is a local anaesthetic to numb the area before they do the injection.

Once you’ve taken the treatment, you should avoid having sex for a week.