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    greytide
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    I shaved. It did nothing except make the itching worse. Learn from me.

    greytide
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    This was us. I was treated, he wasn’t because he had no symptoms and assumed that meant he didn’t have it. He did. Both treated, no recurrence since.

    greytide
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    The most common explanation by a distance is that a partner wasn’t treated at the same time, so you cleared it and then got it back from them. Treatment failure exists but it’s much rarer.

    Worth asking directly whether your partner completed treatment rather than just started it, and whether you both waited the period the clinic told you to wait before having sex again. That gap catches a lot of people out.

    greytide
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    Go back. Not to panic, but because there are a few different explanations and they need different responses: irritation that’s still settling, a second infection that was never treated because it wasn’t tested for, or reinfection from an untreated partner.

    Persistent symptoms after treatment is one of the situations where clinics actually want to see you again. It isn’t a nuisance visit.

    greytide
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    Wanting to understand rather than be reassured is a good instinct and not a slight on him. Go with him to one of his appointments if he’s open to it and ask his team directly. Hearing it from a clinician settled it for me in a way that reading couldn’t.

    Worth also asking about PrEP if it would help you personally feel safer. Some people use it belt and braces even in this situation.

    greytide
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    Same experience. Got the call, spent four days convinced my life was over, walked out twenty minutes later with a prescription and a follow up date.

    Whatever it turns out to be, it’s a thing with a name and a path, and you’ll be on that path by Thursday afternoon.

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