Saw that a new oral antibiotic for gonorrhoea was approved, the first new one in decades. I would much rather take something than have another injection.…
Read that a twice yearly injectable prevention option was approved. Daily tablets have not worked well for me. Is this something I could realistically get?
Negative two years running, now positive for a high risk type again. I have had one partner in that time.
Together six years, both of us faithful as far as I know, and I have just been diagnosed. Where does that leave us?
Took a home test on impulse and it showed reactive. I have not told anyone. I do not know whether this is a result or not.
My letter says late latent. I had assumed latent just meant no symptoms.
Trying to work out how paranoid to be about the flat.
Question came up after a throat diagnosis in a friend group and nobody could answer it confidently.
Six weeks of the immune type cream and they are smaller but still there. I was expecting them to be gone by now.
I get cold sores. Someone told me I could transfer it to myself and now I am paranoid about touching my own face.
Treated last week, still not right. Someone mentioned PID and now I do not know what I am watching for.
Read that trichomoniasis makes HIV more likely and could not tell whether that was a real finding or scaremongering.
Had a couple before, now pregnant and they have multiplied noticeably. Is that a coincidence?
Doctor raised the possibility of testing spinal fluid. I did not take in the reason and left more frightened than when I arrived.
Red, gunky eye that will not settle, and my partner was recently treated for chlamydia. Feels like a strange connection to make but a pharmacist raised…
Clinic mentioned they might be able to give me treatment to pass on to my partner without him coming in. That sounded unusual enough that I…
Diagnosed at a pharmacy, treated, done. A friend says I should have had a full sexual health screen too. Overkill?
Hysterectomy last year. Assumed screening was over and now I have received an invitation.
Clinic mentioned screening for anal precancer. It came out of nowhere and I did not know this was a thing.
Colposcopy found changes and I have been booked for treatment to remove the area. Nobody described what the appointment is like.
Started PrEP and the monitoring schedule is more than I expected. What are they actually checking?
Every year there is an article saying a breakthrough is coming. Is any of it real or is this permanent hope management?
My partner has been diagnosed. I have nothing at all. Is there something I should be looking for?
Routine test in the spring was clear. Positive now. Trying to make sense of the window.
I have throat gonorrhoea. He has been tested at every site and is negative. One of us is confused and I think it might be both…
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