Realistic life expectancy on treatment
Newly diagnosed. I have read that life expectancy is near normal and I cannot tell whether that is true or whether it is what people say…
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Can HPV cause bleeding?
Bleeding after sex for a couple of months. HPV positive on my last screen. Are these connected?
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Does treating the warts reduce the chance of passing HPV on?
Assumed removing them would make me less contagious, then read something suggesting treatment is cosmetic. Which is it?
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Can I use a gel instead of tablets?
I have had a vaginal gel before for something similar. Could that work here and spare me the tablets?
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Rash has gone. Am I still infectious?
Treated a week ago and the rash has faded. Does that mean I am safe to have sex again?
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Shooting pain down my leg before an outbreak
Nerve type pain down the back of one thigh, always the same leg, always a day or two before. Is that something I should be worried…
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Would bleaching or dyeing kill them?
Seen this suggested in a few places. Sounds like it would hurt.
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Can it get into joints?
Read something alarming about gonorrhoea and arthritis. Is that a real complication or a historical curiosity?
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Does smoking affect clearing HPV?
Told at my colposcopy appointment to stop smoking. Assumed it was general advice attached to any hospital visit.
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Missed doses. How bad is it actually?
Missed two days in a row when I was away. Panicking about resistance.
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Towels, pools, hot tubs
Read that this one survives outside the body better than the others. Is non sexual transmission realistic?
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Will they come back after the baby is born?
Warts appeared in pregnancy and I have been told they often improve afterwards. Is that real or is it something people say to pregnant women?
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How long does follow up go on for?
Bloods at three months, six months, twelve months. Is there an end to this?
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Trans and dreading the intake form
I need testing and I keep not booking it because of the paperwork and the conversation that follows. Has anyone found a way through this that…
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Scratched it raw and now it looks infected
Skin is broken in a couple of places, one area is red, swollen and sore rather than itchy.
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Gonorrhoea found in pregnancy
Picked up at an antenatal screen. Told it is treatable but I am struggling to stop worrying about the baby.
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Breastfeeding and the treatment
Diagnosed while breastfeeding. Conflicting advice about whether I need to interrupt feeding.
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Chlamydia and I have an IUD. Will they take it out?
Diagnosed this week. Worried the answer is that the coil has to come out and I go through the whole insertion again.
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Told I have old treated syphilis and I never knew
Routine blood test for something else. Results suggest previous infection, treated at some point. I have no memory of any of this.
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Is there any treatment for the virus itself?
Everything on offer treats what the virus has done. Is there genuinely nothing that targets the virus?
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The mental health part of this
Physically I am fine. Medication is working, numbers are good. I am not fine in any other sense and nobody at the clinic has asked.
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Told I had it years ago and nothing was done
Going through old records for something unrelated and found a positive trich result from four years ago. I have no memory of being told and certainly…
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