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. Men may suffer from painful swelling of the testicles. Both sexes may suffer from arthritis, skin problems and other organ infections caused by the spread of gonorrhea within the body. Abstinence is the only sure way to avoid STDs.