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wool_coat 2 months ago

What worked for me was tying it to something I already do rather than to a calendar. New partner, book a screen. Relationship ends, book a screen. That way I am never trying to remember when the last one was.

wool_coat 2 months ago

Recurrence of the bacterial one is common and is not a sign the trich came back. Worth knowing so you do not read every returning symptom as a treatment failure.

wool_coat 2 months ago

Mine cleared by the repeat test. The year was much harder than the result was, and I wish I had known how common that outcome is.

wool_coat 2 months ago

If nobody can establish when it was acquired, it is usually managed as late latent or unknown duration, which means the longer treatment. Being treated for longer than strictly necessary is the safe error here.

wool_coat 3 months ago

I went on suppressive treatment at almost exactly this point and it changed the shape of the year. Not a cure, but the constant waiting for the next one stopped, and that was the part that was actually wearing me down.

wool_coat 3 months ago

Do not feel bad about it. It happens constantly and the clinic will not be surprised. Just do not quietly wait to see if symptoms return.

wool_coat 3 months ago

Too early and you kill nothing new. Too late and they have already laid. It is one of the few places in this where the exact day genuinely matters.

wool_coat 3 months ago

Infectiousness is confined to particular stages though. Latent infection is not transmitted this way, which is why staging comes up so much in these threads.

wool_coat 3 months ago

Separately from test of cure, a broader retest a few months on is often suggested, and that one is about reinfection rather than about whether the treatment worked.

wool_coat 4 months ago

I switched to trimming and the pattern of new ones stopped. That is one person’s experience rather than proof, but the mechanism is sensible enough that it is worth trying.

wool_coat 4 months ago

Stacking things is the practical answer. Condoms, plus suppressive treatment, plus no sex during prodrome or an outbreak. Each one reduces risk and together they get it quite low.

wool_coat 4 months ago

Ask for a referral to a stopping service at the same appointment if you want to act on it. It is much more effective than being told and left to it, and they are used to being asked.

wool_coat 4 months ago

The exception worth mentioning is a job with a lot of physical closeness, and even there a day after correct treatment removes the concern entirely.

wool_coat 5 months ago

Do not assume finishing the course closes the file. Symptoms appearing after treatment are a reason to go back, not evidence that the treatment worked.

wool_coat 5 months ago

Expect a test of cure. It is more consistently recommended in pregnancy than outside it, and it is the appointment worth protecting in a calendar that is already full of appointments.

wool_coat 5 months ago

Get the dates written down before you leave. The post PEP period is exactly when people stop attending, because the course is finished and it feels over.

wool_coat 5 months ago

Describe what actually happened to the clinic rather than trying to classify it yourself first. They will sort out which of it matters, and they will not react.

wool_coat 5 months ago

They are also doing work against everything else, which is easy to lose sight of when one infection dominates the conversation.

wool_coat 6 months ago

Clearance rates are lower in older age groups, which is part of why a positive result later on is followed more carefully rather than waved through.

wool_coat 6 months ago

Worth asking the service what their record says about whether you were contacted. Results going astray happens, and if there is a systems problem it is worth them knowing.

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