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    Exactly this. I asked mine and got a clear yes or no in one conversation after weeks of guessing online.

    slow_thaw
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    One practical thing to have ready: know what your own situation is. How often you get outbreaks, whether you take suppressive treatment, what you do about it. Being able to answer calmly does more reassuring than any script.

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    Positive, treated last week. Everyone here was right. Posting so the next person searching palm rash at 2am finds something calmer than what I found.

    slow_thaw
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    The reason the numbers differ is that there isn’t one window, there’s a different one per infection and per type of test. Bacterial infections show up on a swab or urine test fairly quickly. Blood-borne ones take longer because you’re waiting on your own body to produce something detectable.

    What worked for me was ringing the clinic, telling them the date and what happened, and letting them decide the schedule. They booked me for two visits rather than one.

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    No. Almost universally no. The first episode is the worst one because your immune system has never seen it before. What comes after, if anything comes at all, tends to be smaller, shorter and much less painful.

    Mine went from something that put me in bed to something I sometimes only notice because I’m looking for it. That shift took a couple of years but it started well before that.

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