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grey_morning 2 months ago

Follow the instructions exactly. The main way self sampling goes wrong is a sample that cannot be processed, and then you have to do it again anyway.

grey_morning 2 months ago

This is what happened to me and the improvement after delivery was dramatic. Nobody had warned me it would flare, so I spent the third trimester convinced something was badly wrong.

grey_morning 2 months ago

The thing actually worth knowing is what PID feels like, because that is the point where speed matters: pelvic or lower abdominal pain, pain during sex, unusual bleeding, fever. Any of that, go in rather than wait.

grey_morning 3 months ago

Your partner needs treating at the same time regardless. Reinfection during pregnancy is the avoidable version of this problem.

grey_morning 3 months ago

Short version from having had one: local anaesthetic, the abnormal area is removed, and the whole thing takes minutes rather than hours. You walk out the same day.

Afterwards there is discharge and light bleeding for a couple of weeks and instructions about not swimming or using tampons for a while. Follow those.

grey_morning 3 months ago

The two are also usually different appointments in different parts of the system, so the sexual health clinic may not know your screening is due unless you say so.

grey_morning 3 months ago

The thing to actually do is attend the screening you are already invited to. That is where the risk gets managed, and non attendance is a far bigger problem than the interval.

grey_morning 4 months ago

Keeping a simple note of dates is the only way to know whether your own triggers are real. Mine turned out to be sleep rather than stress, which I would never have worked out from a general list.

grey_morning 4 months ago

Ask a pharmacist. Thirty seconds, no appointment, and they answer this question professionally rather than from memory of a leaflet from 2004.

grey_morning 4 months ago

Only up to a point in the past, and how far back depends on the infection. A test taken today cannot see something acquired three days ago, because nothing is detectable yet.

So a negative covers your history minus the window period for each thing tested, and says nothing at all about anything since.

grey_morning 5 months ago

Ring the colposcopy clinic and ask them to translate your specific letter. They do this daily and they will not mind. I did and it took four minutes.

grey_morning 5 months ago

The gap between the medical outlook being genuinely good and feeling anything like fine is normal and it is not a sign that you are handling it badly. It took me about a year.

grey_morning 6 months ago

Raise the specific fear at your next appointment rather than carrying it. Mine walked me through what they would look for and why they were not concerned, and it ended the loop almost immediately.

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