Lice or scabies? The itch is worse at night
Itching badly, worse in bed, and I cannot see anything obvious. Everything I read describes both and I cannot tell them apart.
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On doxycycline and I burn in about ten minutes
Started the course and the leaflet mentions sun sensitivity. I work outdoors. Is this a mild warning or a real one?
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Why an injection and not tablets?
Everything else I have ever had was tablets. This one involved a needle in the backside and nobody explained why.
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Prodrome. Is it real or am I inventing it?
I get a tingling and a heavy feeling in my thigh a day before anything appears. Sounds like something I could easily be imagining into existence.
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HPV positive but the cells were normal
Result says high risk HPV detected, cytology normal, come back in a year. I do not understand what I am waiting for.
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How long have I had this? We are long term
Together six years, both of us faithful as far as I know, and I have just been diagnosed. Where does that leave us?
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What does undetectable actually require of me day to day?
Newly on treatment. U equals U keeps being mentioned. What am I actually meant to be doing to hold onto it?
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Early latent or late latent. Why does the label matter?
My letter says late latent. I had assumed latent just meant no symptoms.
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Does a urine test pick up everything?
I gave a urine sample and that was the whole appointment. Reading here it sounds like other people had swabs taken as well. Did I get…
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The other cream is taking forever
Six weeks of the immune type cream and they are smaller but still there. I was expecting them to be gone by now.
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Do I have to disclose if I have never had an outbreak?
Found out through a blood test, not through symptoms. Never had anything appear. It feels strange to disclose something I have never experienced.
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Partner refuses treatment because he is not itching
He says if he had them he would know. I do not want to go through this twice.
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Still HPV positive after treatment
Had the procedure, margins clear, and the follow up test still shows the virus. What was the point?
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Does PrEP protect against anything else?
Started PrEP a few months ago. A friend seems to think it covers more than HIV. That does not sound right.
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How soon can I have sex again?
Had the injection on Tuesday. Partner is being treated Friday. Working out when we can stop avoiding each other.
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Will the vaccine stop them coming back?
Diagnosed with warts, never vaccinated. Is there any point getting the vaccine now, or has that ship sailed?
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We had sex before his treatment finished
Both treated but the timing overlapped badly. Have we undone the whole thing?
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How long have I had this? Trying to work out who to tell
Positive result and no symptoms ever. I have no idea whether this is weeks old or years old, and the partner notification conversation depends on it.
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Negative six months ago and positive now
Routine test in the spring was clear. Positive now. Trying to make sense of the window.
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Could I have got them from a hotel bed?
Trying to account for it without an obvious source. Is bedding a realistic route?
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They want to start treatment the same day
Diagnosed this morning and they offered to start medication today. It feels too fast and I wanted time to think.
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Shooting pain down my leg before an outbreak
Nerve type pain down the back of one thigh, always the same leg, always a day or two before. Is that something I should be worried…
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Irritation continued but the retest was negative
Treated, retested a month later, negative. Still irritated and uncomfortable. Where does that leave me?
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Does smoking affect clearing HPV?
Told at my colposcopy appointment to stop smoking. Assumed it was general advice attached to any hospital visit.
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Green tea ointment, is that a real treatment?
Saw it mentioned and assumed it was a supplement scam. Then I saw it on a clinic list.
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