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| How many of you actually get tested for STD's? If not why?
Posted: 3/27/2007 4:49:00 PM | | Many people with STI's show no physical syptoms. The infection (sometimes incurable) is just lying dormant, burrowing into the persons immune system. Therefore, many are carrying STI's they might not even be aware of and unbeknowingly spreading this to partners. | |
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| How many of you actually get tested for STD's? If not why?
Posted: 3/27/2007 5:33:53 PM | | I think that half of the problem is that people go to get tested AFTER they have had periods of high sexual activity. Wouldn't it make more sense for a couple to be tested BEFORE? Prevention is better than cure. | |
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jimi77
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| How many of you actually get tested for STD's? If not why?
Posted: 3/27/2007 5:50:47 PM | raises his hand.. i was tested and have a clean bill of health.. what shocked me was that the nurse said they hardley ever see someone come in for this... YOINKS! \
I got checked after my last relationship because she cheated.. GRRRRR! | |
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| How many of you actually get tested for STD's? If not why?
Posted: 3/27/2007 5:55:11 PM | ^^^yeah, that's just lovely - having to do testing not because of your own behaviour but because of someone else's lack of responsibility.
Depending on what you are testing for, one should go before and after. And one must remember the mean time for HIV testing.
I have met some ignorant people that belittled me because I was trying to be careful and somewhat paranoid of STD's. They had that same "I'm picky" attitude. They also do not inform themselves - hence ignorant. That attitude is what can land you a-scratching and a-itching, giving someone HPV which could eventually lead to cervical cancer in women in some instances or HIV positive.... | |
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| How many of you actually get tested for STD's? If not why?
Posted: 3/27/2007 9:49:13 PM | not trying to sound like a prude but I'm just concerned.
there's nothing "prudish" about that statement at all.. everyone should be concerned... and i think nowadays that there is just so many contraceptives and free clinics set up in canada to help with making testing a whole lot easier.. that there should be just NO REASON at all for not getting tested....
it is so scary nowadays just because other incubations periods include anywhere from instanteously to two to three weeks(incubation periods meaning the amount of time it takes for an STD to show up) ... and not even that.. some people carry the diseases and dont even know it ... meaning they are just "carriers" passing it around without even knowing it.... so even if a partner says they are clean or just got tested.. it can later show up past the testing.. im not tryng to scare anyone either.. but its all about sexual education ..
i personally get tested every three months and i know that for men its a more painful process.. but for women (although it can be painful for some) its much more easier... i take upon that advantage and those free clinics... and if something happens like a condom breaking in between those three months.. i go do it again.. its better to be safe than sorry... | |
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| How many of you actually get tested for STD's? If not why?
Posted: 3/27/2007 10:04:16 PM | I have been tested and happy to report I'm clean in every way. I haven't been tested since before my ex though as he was a virgin and extremely monogomous so I had no worries there. I haven't slept with anyone since then either, so haven't been tested recently. Should I meet someone I want to have a relationship with, it would be talked about. I would agree to a testing to show him I'm clean and would hope he would want to do the same. Having said that, even if we both were, condoms are a must cause I don't wanna have a baby and at my age, BC pills are too risky. So unless we could find another way to avoid the pregnancy thing, condoms will be a necessary evil. | |
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| How many of you actually get tested for STD's? If not why?
Posted: 3/27/2007 10:36:46 PM | | I went to get tested a couple months ago, more as a semi-requirement for my health benefits for my position. Not that they NEEDED it, just that if I contracted HIV they wouldn't cover me unless I could prove I didn't have it prior to my position (I work with high risk women). I also needed it for my Visa coverage. Of course it was negative, but let me tell you...the WAIT to get the results was horrible. You re-examine everyone you have slept with and who they have slept with and if there is any chance you might have it. It's best you ask people before you sleep with them. Go get tested together or ask to see the results. JMO | |
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| How many of you actually get tested for STD's? If not why?
Posted: 3/27/2007 11:56:09 PM | | Hell Yes! I go just about every 6 months. I don't sleep around, but I definitely value my life, and myself enough to make sure I'm clean and disease free. The world would be a better-safer place if everyone did so. | |
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| How many of you actually get tested for STD's? If not why?
Posted: 4/1/2007 9:39:16 PM | If you are promiscueous why not get tested, I have had partners ask me to get tested of course I return the asking. go with me we both will.
no problem get it done at least 2wice a year.
I did have a nurse get out he BIG cu-tip to put up my penis one day. she was more embarrassed than me. | |
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| How many of you actually get tested for STD's? If not why?
Posted: 4/1/2007 10:50:21 PM | Yup, I try to go in with the other person. Don't like needing to trust each other when we don't have to
Fyi for anyone who doesn't ask for more than generic tests, people are still considered "clean" even if they have herpes, warts & those things that give women cancer, in most of north america anyways | |
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| How many of you actually get tested for STD's? If not why?
Posted: 4/3/2007 12:56:09 PM | #42.... that sounds v. painful... does it hurt?
Like I said, I've never had the need to get it done... but that sounds like it'd hurt. (Pain is, of course, better than getting and/or spreading something, but I'm not familiar with the process, so I'm curious.) | |
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| How many of you actually get tested for STD's? If not why?
Posted: 4/3/2007 2:57:17 PM | | I think that if more people actually knew someone with HIV that developed into AIDS, they might be a little more careful, educated and respectfully afraid. Whether by needles or through fluids (sexual contact), it is a serious matter. | |
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| How many of you actually get tested for STD's? If not why?
Posted: 4/3/2007 4:50:21 PM | Some fear that their access to affordable health insurance would be impaired even if the result is negative. There is a certain logic there though evidence is lacking. To an insurance provider, a person who feels that need an HIV test is a higher risk than someone who doesn't.
There are ways around this (Don't use insurance. Use one of the anonymous clinics.) but they significantly increase the cost and hassle of being tested.
I plan to get tested soon because I did have unprotected sex with my recent ex. I trust her, but I don't expected my next girlfriend to trust her. | |
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| How many of you actually get tested for STD's? If not why?
Posted: 4/3/2007 4:57:07 PM |
Always!
every 6 mo. or 17 days after a new partner EVEN IF WE USED CONDOMS! They are not 100%
I LOVE MY BODY
Yup condoms are highly effective at stopping HIV pregancy and other diseases, but some arent transmitted through fluids. You are still at fair risk even with protection from quite a few STDs. Only safe sex is self sex  | |
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| How many of you actually get tested for STD's? If not why?
Posted: 4/3/2007 6:19:39 PM | All I can say about this is that while you wait for results....your memory becomes very crystal clear...every possible indiscretion becomes very clear...but nothing like that NEGATIVE result to make your freakin year! ...and help you clean up your act if you have gotten sloppy. I usually do it every year:
CASH OUT OF MY POCKET: $130
PIECE OF MIND: PRICELESS! | |
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| How many of you actually get tested for STD's? If not why?
Posted: 4/3/2007 10:05:40 PM | It does not matter if you are picky or not...thats whats wrong with society today...no one uses common sense. I live in Edmonton, AB Canada, and there is a serious outbreak of syphillis here, its crazy. I'm afraid to date anyone here. I stil can't believe so many people still don't practice safe sex. If you think when someone tells you, whether male or female, oh I haven't been sexually active in over "x" amount of years, do you believe them, do you want to trust them, or do the radars go off telling you; hey "I don't know you from atom" quick get a condom would be my first thought. These days in the city where I live, I would be scared of someone kissing me, thats some scary sh$^t.
I think we live in a very sick society. As amazing as it seems, I hate to say this, but most men dont have checkups and some women has never had a yearly checkup..
They just keep gapping the legs and the men are flocking to it like flies on sweet bread..
Well I hope I've gotten to some and remember good sex is safe sex... | |
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