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still_water 1 month ago

Two additions to what has already been said.

It covers the types behind most genital warts as well as high risk types, so the benefit is not only about cancer risk. And it does not replace screening, whatever your vaccination status, because it does not cover every type and does not treat what is already there.

Vaccinated or not, keep the screening appointments. They answer different questions.

still_water 1 month ago

Go back. You will not be the first person that day, let alone that week. They ask about sites of exposure for exactly one reason, which is to decide where to swab, and a urine sample genuinely tells them nothing about your throat or rectum.

You do not have to explain why you did not say it the first time. “I want to add throat and rectal swabs” is a complete sentence.

still_water 1 month ago

Ask them directly what would change their plan. Mine told me plainly what result would move me from screening to colposcopy and it turned the vague dread into a defined threshold.

still_water 1 month ago

The reason your doctor is relaxed is that a stable low titre is a different thing from a rising one. A four fold rise is what would prompt them to think about reinfection or treatment failure. Stable is being watched, not ignored.

still_water 1 month ago

Also worth mentioning: HPV vaccination protects against the types that cause most warts. If your partner has not been vaccinated, that is a more useful thing to raise than a long conversation about your history.

still_water 2 months ago

The other half of having no symptoms is that you cannot date it, and people torture themselves trying.

Because it can sit there quietly for a long time, a positive result tells you that you have it, not when you got it. It is not evidence about a particular person or a particular week, and using it that way has ended relationships that did not need to end.

Treat it, tell the partners your clinic asks you to tell, take the retest. That is the whole list.

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