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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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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