These people may also spread infection without realizing it. From the time a person is infected with gonorrhea, he or she can spread the disease. A person can continue to spread the infection until properly treated. Past infection does not make a person immune to gonorrhea. Thus, a person can get gonorrhea more than once.
Gonorrhea is treated with medicine that is injected into the buttocks.
Some infections may be treated with pills. Damage to the body can occur if a person is not treated. Women can develop chronic pain when the infection spreads into the reproductive organs. PID may make a women unable to have babies. An untreated infection during pregnancy may damage the baby.