Consult your healthcare practitioner immediately in the event you feel you may have gonorrhea, or whether you are having any of its symptoms. If you suspect that you're infected or might have been exposed to gonorrhea, it's important to receive tested immediately, particularly if you already exhibit symptoms. Gonorrhea could be treated using antibiotics. If you're positive for gonorrhea, you sexual partner also needs to be tested to stop the spread of infection and potential complications. The majority of the moment, this kind of gonorrhea is harmless. Pharyngeal gonorrhea is the expression provided to the gonorrhea of the throat. Simple tests can establish if you're infected. A negative test means only that there's no evidence of infection at the right time of the test. This test might also be performed in a doctor's office. It is often performed in combination with Chlamydia. It is also known as DNA probe test. This form of test is extremely specific, thus most laboratories do not execute this test. Gonorrhea testing might also be ordered when someone's sex partner was diagnosed with gonorrhea or any time an individual has signs and symptoms of the infection.