Do I have to tell my dentist?
Dental appointment coming up and the form asks about medical conditions and medication. I am torn between honesty and self protection.
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What is actually in a standard screen where you are?
Curious how much this varies. The list I was given seems shorter than what people describe in other countries.
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Rash on my palms, doctor sent me for bloods
Had a rash on my palms and the soles of my feet, which I thought was an allergy. GP took one look and sent me for…
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Is stress really a trigger or is that folklore?
Everyone says stress. It sounds like the kind of thing people say about everything.
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Can I have got this from oral sex?
The only thing in the relevant window was oral. I had assumed that was essentially safe for chlamydia.
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Still itching two weeks after treatment
No live lice that I can find. The itch has not gone. Do I treat again?
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Can I use a gel instead of tablets?
I have had a vaginal gel before for something similar. Could that work here and spare me the tablets?
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Untreated for months. What is the damage?
Looking back I think I have had symptoms on and off since the spring and ignored them. Now being treated. How worried should I be about…
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First outbreak was the worst pain of my life. Does it stay like this?
I am about a week into what the clinic swabbed and confirmed as a first episode. I could not sit down properly for three days and…
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Rash has gone. Am I still infectious?
Treated a week ago and the rash has faded. Does that mean I am safe to have sex again?
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Should my son be vaccinated?
Vaccination was offered at school and my husband thinks it is only relevant for girls.
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Can I get tested at a pharmacy?
There is a pharmacy near me advertising testing. Is that a real service or is it a way of selling me something?
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Am I spreading them by shaving?
I shave regularly and new ones keep appearing in a line along where the razor goes. That cannot be a coincidence.
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Travelling with my medication
First trip abroad since diagnosis. Worried about customs, about labels, and about running out.
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How much do condoms actually reduce the risk?
Reading around, the answer seems to be somewhere between quite a lot and not much, depending on who wrote the page.
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Could I have got them from a hotel bed?
Trying to account for it without an obvious source. Is bedding a realistic route?
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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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Allergic to that class of antibiotic
Told the standard injection is in a class I react to. What happens now?
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Does it affect fertility?
Diagnosed and now reading things that have frightened me about long term effects.
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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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They want to start treatment the same day
Diagnosed this morning and they offered to start medication today. It feels too fast and I wanted time to think.
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Why did they ask about what kind of sex I have?
Found the intake questions intrusive and I said less than I should have. Now I am wondering whether that affected what they tested.
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Partner has nothing after two years
I have had recurring warts for two years. He has never had one. He is starting to think I am the problem and honestly so am…
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Missed the second injection by a week
Three weekly injections, I missed the middle one and went a week late. Does the course still count?
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Where do I even start? Got a call from the clinic
I had a routine screen two weeks ago and today the clinic rang and asked me to come in. They wouldn't say anything on the phone…
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