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[quote=Anonymous]My high school senior 18 year old daughter was seeing a fellow student, though it ended.

She was complaining of something like a yeast infection but not a yeast infection. She doesn't have a GYN, so we went to the pediatrician. She does take birth control because of heavy irregular periods. She wanted privacy with the doctor which I told her fine. I got some notices to pick up prescriptions for her.

Later that night, she came to me (the mother) and told me the doctor's office had called her (she's over 18, so most communications go through her, I get notices for things like the prescriptions being put in or whatever because my daughter signed permission for me to have limited access, which everyone is fine with). Diagnosis: chlamydia.

She said I have to talk to you, I said ok, what's up, she told me, and I just said, ok.  And she said what are you thinking? And I said, well, I'm thinking I hope you are taking care of yourself and you are ok and that you are being safe We talked about it a little and she said it had just been this one guy and she had been a little sad it didn't turn into anything but she was ok, but that she was being safe.

She did not ask me to keep this private. But my husband can be a bit emotional and can get worked up about things and frankly I think this is a need to know basis and maybe he doesn't need to know. At least not right now (he's under stress in another area of his life and tends to catastrophize things, especially when he's under stress). Her final quarter grades are stressing him out and he's being hard on her senioritis.

So I'm thinking about waiting to tell him - maybe over the summer, maybe once she's gone off to college. She doesn't care one way or the other. Any thoughts or experiences? Is this the kind of thing you tell your husband or no?  WWYD at this point?  (I'll admit I was hoping she'd do what I did - get to college, and then take herself to the gyn, so I guess I should add find a gyn for her to the list of things to do).  [/quote]

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