 [ Symptoms ] can you have a chlamydia infection go undetected for more than one year [ Disease ] the answer is yes you can have it quite a while even longer than a year not knowing if you are a male or female i will address both the symptoms of chlamydia in men can be subtle or the person may have burning with urination or a mucous like discharge some men are more attentive than others so i have met people that have ignored symptoms for quite a long time only to test positive in women chlamydia may not be noticed at all or the symptoms are so non specific that they too will ignore since chlamydia can lead to a very serious pelvic infection called a pid   pelvic inflammatory disease many times this is the first time it is diagnosed chlamydia can scar the tubes and predispose the woman to a tubal pregnancy clearly the illness is more serious for a woman if it goes undiagnosed if all couples would just agree to safe sex practices chlamydia and many other stds would become rare unfortunately they are not