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Gynecology questions, answered plainly in Seoul, Korea.
More than 120 answers from Dami Women's Clinic in Yeouido, Seoul, on gynecology, STDs, contraception, pregnancy and using Korean health care. Each begins with a short answer, then the detail.
International patients
- Does Dami offer care in English?
- Can I get a same-day appointment?
- Do I need Korean health insurance?
- Can I pay by credit card?
- English receipt for insurance?
- Is my visit confidential?
- Questions via KakaoTalk?
- Where is Dami?
- Is there parking?
- Open Saturdays and evenings?
- Can tourists be seen?
Vaginitis & discharge
- What does normal discharge look like?
- Can vaginitis go away on its own?
- Is vaginitis an STD?
- Why does BV keep coming back?
- Does my partner need BV treatment?
- Should I douche to prevent odor?
- Yeast medicine without prescription in Korea?
- Can antibiotics cause yeast infections?
- Yeast infection or BV?
STD testing & infections
- How long do STD results take?
- Which STD panel should I choose?
- Test without symptoms?
- How soon after exposure can I test?
- Swab or blood test?
- Do panels include HIV and syphilis?
- Can chlamydia cause infertility?
- How is chlamydia treated?
- Retest after chlamydia?
- Is gonorrhea curable?
- Gonorrhea or UTI?
- Can trichomoniasis be cured?
- Why must my partner be treated?
- Trichomoniasis without symptoms?
- Is Ureaplasma an STD?
- Treat Mycoplasma without symptoms?
- Mycoplasma and pregnancy
- Can herpes be cured?
- What triggers herpes outbreaks?
- Sex life with herpes
- Can men be tested here?
HPV & vaccines
- Does HPV go away on its own?
- Positive HPV test: what next?
- Can men get the HPV vaccine?
- Gardasil 9 after 26?
- How many HPV doses?
- Finish a series from abroad
Checkups & screening
- Does a Pap smear hurt?
- How often should I have a Pap smear?
- Abnormal Pap smear meaning
- Which Dami Basic checkup?
- Is the ultrasound vaginal?
- How long does a checkup take?
- Exam if I have never had sex?
- Fasting before blood tests?
- First gynecologist visit age
- What's in a pre-marital checkup?
- Should my fiancé be tested?
- When to do the wedding checkup
- Normal AMH level
- Pregnant with low AMH?
- AMH test timing
Gynecologic conditions
- Can fibroids turn into cancer?
- Pregnant with fibroids?
- When do fibroids need surgery?
- Can PID cause infertility?
- How is PID diagnosed?
- Hospital for PID?
- Cystitis after sex
- UTI without antibiotics?
- When is a UTI an emergency?
- Spotting between periods
- Stress and irregular bleeding
- When is bleeding an emergency?
- What causes irregular periods?
- When to worry about a missed period
- Can the pill regulate periods?
Pregnancy & fertility
- How early can a blood test detect pregnancy?
- Can a home test be wrong?
- Drank before knowing I was pregnant
- After a positive test
- When can the heartbeat be seen?
- Does Dami deliver babies?
- Cramping in early pregnancy
- Medicines in early pregnancy
- Spotting in early pregnancy
- What is a missed miscarriage?
- ER for pregnancy bleeding?
- Morning sickness timing
- When is morning sickness dangerous?
- No morning sickness?
- When will I feel the baby move?
- How is my due date calculated?
- Reading an ovulation test
- Most fertile days
- Not getting pregnant?
- Tests before trying to conceive
- Rubella vaccine before pregnancy
- Pregnancy after stopping the pill
Contraception
- Does the pill cause infertility?
- Pill without prescription in Korea?
- Missed a pill?
- Does IUD insertion hurt?
- Copper IUD or Mirena?
- IUD or implant removal abroad
- No period on Mirena?
- Implant, injection or IUD?
- Implant and weight gain
- Late for the injection?
- Injection and bones
- Morning-after pill in Korea
- Emergency contraception effectiveness
- Late period after the morning-after pill