Do I need a test of cure if it was genital only?

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    • August 29, 2026 at 7:24 pm
    kettle_on
    Participant

    Treated for genital gonorrhoea. No follow up swab was offered and after reading here about throat retests I wondered whether I should be asking for one.

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Member experience, not medical advice. Symptoms overlap between infections and only a test can tell them apart.
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    • August 31, 2026 at 3:24 am
    longwayround
    Participant

    The distinction is deliberate. A routine test of cure is recommended for pharyngeal infection because the throat is harder to clear. For genital infection it is not routinely recommended in the same way.

    What is recommended for everyone is a retest a few months later, which is about reinfection rather than whether the treatment worked.

    • September 1, 2026 at 2:24 am
    half_moon
    Participant

    The exception is persistent symptoms. If anything is still going on after treatment, that is its own reason to be seen, regardless of what the routine schedule says.

    • September 2, 2026 at 1:24 am
    spare_key
    Participant

    Book the three month retest before you leave. Everyone means to arrange it later and a good share of the reinfection threads here start with someone who did not.

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