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two_sugars 2 months ago

Practically, most people wait until the course is finished and the skin has settled. Sore treated skin is not comfortable anyway, so the clinical advice and the obvious advice point the same way.

two_sugars 2 months 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 3 months ago

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

two_sugars 3 months ago

Ring the clinic and ask for the exact date. They will give you one. Do not try to reconstruct it from a half remembered sentence.

two_sugars 3 months 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 3 months ago

Book it while you are still in the building. That appointment has the highest no show rate of anything in this process, and it is the one that actually answers something.

two_sugars 3 months 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 3 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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