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No, and this is an important distinction. Topical gels of this drug family do not reach adequate levels in the sites where the organism lives, including the urethra and the glands nearby.
Cure rates with topical treatment are poor and guidelines specifically advise against it for trichomoniasis.
The rash fading is not the marker. Ask your clinic for a date, because it depends on the stage and the treatment you had.
A common approach is to avoid sex until treatment is complete, lesions have healed, and your partner has been assessed and treated as needed.
That is a classic pattern rather than a separate worry. The virus lives in a nerve root and reactivation produces symptoms along the territory that nerve serves, which is why it is the same leg every time.
Some people get the nerve pain without any skin lesion at all, which is disconcerting until you know it is described.
Do not do this. Hair dye and bleach are not treatments for this, they are not tested for it, and genital skin is not the place to experiment with strong chemicals.
Chemical burns in that area are a much worse problem than the lice.
Real, though uncommon. When the bacteria spread through the bloodstream they can cause joint inflammation, skin lesions and tendon inflammation. It has a name, disseminated gonococcal infection.
It is treated differently and usually more intensively than an uncomplicated infection, which is why it matters to identify rather than to ride out.
It was specific advice rather than general. Smoking is consistently associated with reduced clearance of HPV and with higher risk of progression to high grade cervical changes.
It is one of the few modifiable factors in this whole area, which is why they mention it.
Tell your clinic. Two days is not a catastrophe with most modern regimens, and the honest conversation is far more useful than the silent worry.
Resistance develops from sustained partial adherence over time more than from an isolated gap, but the assessment is theirs to make with your history in front of them.
The exception worth taking seriously is trichomoniasis found in a child, which needs proper assessment rather than an assumption about towels.
Usually yes. Follow up typically continues until the titre has fallen appropriately and stabilised, commonly over a year or two depending on stage and on how the numbers behave.
Some people end up with a persistently low level positive that never fully resolves, and that is recognised and managed rather than treated indefinitely.
It is real and it is commonly observed. Warts often grow during pregnancy and frequently regress or resolve in the months after delivery, which is why treatment is sometimes deferred.
Not guaranteed, but common enough that watchful waiting is a legitimate plan rather than a fob off.
Some services let you do the sampling yourself, which removes most of the examination and most of the conversation. Worth asking specifically.
Get that looked at. Secondary bacterial infection of scratched skin is common with this and it needs treating in its own right, usually with something quite different from the lice treatment.
Pain and swelling replacing itch is the pattern to act on rather than watch.
Treatment in pregnancy is established and the first line injection is used in pregnancy, so you are not being given a compromise option.
The reason it is screened for is that untreated infection at delivery can cause a serious eye infection in the newborn. Treated before then, that risk is dealt with.
Ask a pharmacist or your clinic rather than working from leaflets, because the advice differs between the drugs in this family and between the single dose and multi dose approaches.
Some guidance historically suggested interrupting feeding for a period after a large single dose, which is a large part of where the conflicting advice you are finding comes from.
Usually no. The general approach is to treat the infection with the device left in place and to review if things are not improving.
Removal comes into the conversation in more serious situations, for example if there is established pelvic inflammatory disease that is not responding, and even then it is a judgement rather than automatic.
What matters is whether current infection has been excluded properly rather than assumed. Ask whether both test types were done and what both showed, and whether they are confident it is old.
Correct, and it is the part people find hardest. There is no antiviral treatment that clears HPV. Treatment addresses lesions and abnormal cells, and the immune system handles the rest or does not.
It is why prevention through vaccination and detection through screening carry the whole load.
Raise it directly at your next appointment, because most HIV services have or can refer to psychological support and it is considered part of care rather than an extra.
The reason nobody asked is usually a fifteen minute appointment focused on bloods, not a judgement that it does not matter.
Get tested now rather than trying to reconstruct what happened. Untreated trichomoniasis can persist for years, so it is entirely possible it is still there.
It is also possible it cleared on its own, or that you were treated by antibiotics given for something else, which does happen.