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two_sugars 4 weeks ago

Alongside the partner question, ask what you were actually given.

The CDC guidance moved to a longer course for women rather than the single dose, because the comparison found the longer one roughly halved the proportion of women testing positive again at follow up. Men are still treated with the single dose.

If you were given a single dose, that is a reasonable thing to raise when you go back. Not a complaint, just a question worth asking before assuming reinfection.

two_sugars OP 1 month ago

About five days, and it was already drying out by then.

two_sugars 1 month ago

Something that helped me: write it down before you go in and hand the paper over. I could not say it out loud but I could write it, and the nurse just read it and got on with the swabs without making it a moment.

two_sugars 1 month ago

There are numbers, even if nobody can tell you which side of them you will land on.

Roughly 70 per cent of infections clear within a year and around 90 per cent within two, with new infections lasting around eight months on average. Persistence, meaning it is still there over repeated tests, happens in something like one in ten.

So the honest framing is: most likely gone inside two years, and the follow up screening is how you find out rather than a sign anything is wrong.

two_sugars 2 months ago

Do not filter the list by whether you think they could have it. Give the clinic the period they ask for and let them decide. I nearly left someone off because it did not seem plausible.

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