Chlamydia

Why retest at three months if I was cured?

Test of cure was negative. Told to come back at three months anyway. What is that looking for?

short_wave 4 months ago

NoteMember experience, not medical advice. Symptoms overlap between infections and only a test can tell them apart.

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spare_room 4 months ago

Reinfection, not treatment failure. Those are two different questions and the two tests answer one each.

The rate of testing positive again within a few months is high enough that it is worth a routine appointment, usually because a partner was untreated or a new partner came along.

oak_table 4 months ago

It is not a comment on your behaviour. It is a population level observation that got turned into a default recommendation, which is why everybody gets told the same thing.

quietkettle 4 months ago

Do go. It is the cheapest possible way to catch the thing that actually causes the long term problems, which is repeat infection rather than one episode.

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