Chlamydia in the eye

Hi everyone, I was hoping I could get some advice from you all. I’ve been dealing with this persistent, mild redness in my eye for a few weeks now, and it honestly kept me up at night worrying, so I went ahead and got tested for bacteria and chlamydia. It turns out I have chlamydia in my right eye. My doctor prescribed Sumamed along with some Floxal eye drops and ointment. The plan is to use them for three weeks, take a one-week break, and then wait another week for the follow-up swab results to come back. In the meantime, I can't wear contact lenses—which I've worn for nine years straight—and I basically have to forget about wearing any makeup. I'm really struggling to wrap my head around how this even happened; I'm not even sure if I have the genital strain yet because I'm on my period, so I have to wait for my gynecologist appointment. My boyfriend and I have been together for three years, and we've always been faithful and used protection every single time🙂. He hasn't had his swabs done yet; his doctor just gave him Sumamed first, and he'll only do the tests once he finishes the course. I'm just completely lost as to where I caught this or how it ended up in my eye. Anyway, I'm feeling pretty drained, so let me get to the point. My ophthalmologist mentioned that chlamydia almost always affects both eyes, which makes me think the test for my left eye might have been a false negative. When I asked her if I should be applying the drops and ointment to both eyes, she suggested maybe just focusing on the right one to avoid contaminating the bottles and accidentally spreading it to my "healthy" eye. Personally, I feel like I should treat both eyes, though I'd be incredibly careful with the bottles, because I really don't want to go through this whole month-long ordeal only to have the right eye heal while the left one gets infected... is there any harm in treating both eyes? Also, am I allowed to wear even a little bit of makeup while I'm healing? They told me I should probably toss all the makeup I was using, but what about my medications—could those be contaminated too?
Thanks so much to everyone for taking the time to read this.

Chlamydia isn't just one thing; it’s actually an entire family of bacteria, and there are several different strains that can mess with humans—you've got trachomatis, Psitaci, and more recently, people have been talking about pneumoniae, so any one of those could be what we're looking at since they all have their own specific subtypes...

Basically, those last two are respiratory chlamydias, which means they can easily spread to your eyes just like a ton of other bacteria and viruses do—they travel up through the tear ducts from the nose, so you don't necessarily need to freak out about that part. I mean, obviously getting checked out by your gynecologist is a smart move to stay on top of things for your own long-term health and peace of mind, but it doesn't have to be this huge, terrifying source of infection... 😉