greytide

Largely by the size of the change and by your history. A sustained fourfold rise is the thing that signals either reinfection or failure, rather than small movements.

After that it is the ordinary questions: has there been a new exposure since treatment, was the original course completed, was the partner treated.

Clearing means the virus is no longer detectable, and once it is undetectable transmission becomes much less likely. Much less likely is not the same as impossible, and nobody can give you a zero.

Also worth knowing that screening looks for HPV at a specific site, so a clear result is a statement about what was sampled, not a whole body certificate.

Treated trich is a resolved problem. The worry threads that get written at two in the morning are rarely about the infection people actually have.

In some places you would also be offered PrEP at this point, since a recent bacterial infection is one of the indicators for it. Worth asking if nobody raised it.

The shame around this one is out of all proportion to what it is. It is an insect that likes coarse hair and it is treated with a bottle of lotion.

If a service handles it badly, that is worth knowing and worth leaving. There are places that get this right. Please do not let a bad first attempt become a reason to stop testing altogether.

Also worth asking about anything affecting your immune system, including smoking. It is the boring answer and it is the one with real evidence behind it for recurrence.

Both get treated, both retest at three months, and try to put the archaeology down. I have watched this question destroy something that the infection itself would have taken a week to fix.