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back_porch 2 months ago

This is the single most common gap people discover here. Infections at the throat and rectum are often completely silent, and a urine sample cannot find them at all.

If oral or anal sex is part of your life, go back and ask for those sites to be sampled. It is a short conversation and they will not be surprised.

back_porch 3 months ago

Availability of the specialist examination is the bottleneck in a lot of places, so waits can be long. Worth asking what the pathway is where you are rather than assuming it will be quick.

back_porch 3 months ago

Eligibility and cost vary enormously by country and by age. Ask the clinic rather than assuming you are too old, because the upper age limits have moved in several places.

back_porch 3 months ago

Worth adding a sentence about getting a fuller screen. Having one infection is a reason to check for others, and that applies here as much as anywhere.

back_porch 4 months ago

Make sure screening does not fall off the calendar during treatment. It is very easy for a year of fertility appointments to swallow a routine recall letter.

back_porch 5 months ago

He should still be offered a full screen even if the trich is treated presumptively. Contact treatment for one thing is not a substitute for testing for everything else.

back_porch 5 months ago

Some things are advised to be kept apart from it by a couple of hours, dairy and indigestion remedies among them, because they can reduce absorption. So the food advice is not quite eat anything at any time.

back_porch 5 months ago

Worth asking whether a different approach makes sense at this point. Repeating the same method a fourth time is not the only option, and combinations are sometimes used.

back_porch 5 months ago

It fits alongside the screening conversation rather than replacing it. Vaccination protects against types you have not met, screening finds changes from ones you have.

back_porch 5 months ago

Worth doing together rather than one of you. And worth mentioning that you are planning a pregnancy, because it changes which treatments are appropriate if something does turn up.

back_porch 6 months ago

Tell the fertility clinic anyway, and tell the obstetric team when you get there. The situation that needs planning is a first episode late in pregnancy, which is a different risk from long standing infection.

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