On doxycycline and I burn in about ten minutes
Started the course and the leaflet mentions sun sensitivity. I work outdoors. Is this a mild warning or a real one?
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Warts or skin tags? I cannot tell and I am too scared to ask
Two small flesh coloured bumps. They could be anything. I have been looking at pictures online for three weeks, which has helped nobody.
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Cleared it, now positive again. Reinfection or reactivation?
Negative two years running, now positive for a high risk type again. I have had one partner in that time.
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How long do people stay on suppressive treatment?
Started daily tablets after a bad run of outbreaks. Nobody mentioned an end point and I am not sure whether this is a year or a…
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How long do they survive away from a person?
Trying to work out how paranoid to be about the flat.
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Hair falling out in patches
Diagnosed with secondary syphilis last month. Now losing hair in odd irregular patches. Is that connected or is this stress?
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Discharge stopped but the burning did not
Ten days since treatment. Discharge gone within two days, burning when passing urine still there.
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Can it be picked up on a smear test?
My smear result mentioned trichomonas. I did not think that test was looking for infections.
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Does PrEP protect against anything else?
Started PrEP a few months ago. A friend seems to think it covers more than HIV. That does not sound right.
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How long before I can have sex again after treatment?
Treated this week. Got a rough answer at the door that I did not really take in, and now I am not sure whether the clock…
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Partner notification, is it genuinely anonymous?
Clinic offered to contact people for me. I want to do it but I am struggling to believe the person on the other end will not…
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replies 2 months, 3 weeks ago
Partner still negative after two years
Together two years, I have HSV-2, he tests negative every time. We use condoms most of the time but not always. Is he just lucky?
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Do I need to tell everyone I have slept with?
It feels like a much less serious thing to raise than an infection, but also they would probably want to know.
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replies 3 months, 1 week ago
Cryotherapy left a pale mark
Wart gone, but the skin there is noticeably lighter than the rest. Is that permanent?
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replies 3 months, 1 week ago
Can you get syphilis from kissing?
Sounds far fetched but a sore in the mouth was mentioned in another thread here.
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replies 3 months, 1 week ago
Travelling with my medication
First trip abroad since diagnosis. Worried about customs, about labels, and about running out.
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replies 3 months, 2 weeks ago
They mentioned LGV. What is that?
Word came up in my appointment and I nodded rather than asking. Some sort of chlamydia variant?
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replies 3 months, 3 weeks ago
My screening interval changed and nobody explained
Used to be every three years. New letter says five. It feels like a cut.
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replies 3 months, 3 weeks ago
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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Episodic or suppressive. How did people decide?
Offered both and told to think about it. I have no framework for thinking about it.
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Rash and aching joints a week after diagnosis
Treated ten days ago. Now have a few spots on my hands and both wrists ache. Probably unrelated but I have read the other threads here.
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replies 4 months, 2 weeks ago
Surgical removal, what is recovery like?
Topical treatments have failed twice. Surgery has been raised. I would like to hear from someone who has actually had it.
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replies 4 months, 3 weeks ago
Mouth ulcer that will not heal
Single ulcer at the edge of my tongue for about five weeks. Painless. I only started worrying after reading here.
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replies 4 months, 4 weeks ago
Chemist product or clinic prescription?
Can buy something today or wait a week for an appointment. Is the shop version inferior?
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Why did I not get a test of cure?
Everyone here seems to have had one. I was treated and sent away with nothing except a retest date months later. Is my clinic cutting corners?
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