| How many of you actually get tested for STD's? If not why?
Posted: 3/26/2007 11:55:49 AM | I'm very careful about who I choose to be in a relationship with & these days and ages, you really have to be careful. I was just talking with a guy & he said that back when he was younger, he was very promiscuous and he slept with alot of women and had alot of one night stands.He said he used condoms with every woman he's been with but what people fail to realize is that condoms are not 100% safe. I'm not trying to scare people out there but it's still good to get tested to be on the safe side, especially if you change partners every week! People like to think that condoms will protect them in every circumstance when there's still a slight chance of catching something. The scary thing is you have to take a risk with your new partner, but you never know where your partner has been & what they've been doing.
Where I am, HIV/AIDS is spreading around the city I live in. Alot of people are so ignorant to get tested and to practice safe sex. I am only 21 and I noticed alot the women I graduated high school with are pregnant now. Meaning there are so many people out there practicing unsafe sex. I'm not trying to sound like a prude but I'm just concerned. Alot of people still think that their invincible and that they can't catch anything but it's very possible that you can. I think I'm going to get tested soon.
Do you get tested? Do you ask your partner who you've been with to get tested? I mean why should everyone put their life in jeopardy over someone else? Having safe or even unsafe sex with a person who doesn't even know they're HIV positive person is like playing russian roulette with your life. | |
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| How many of you actually get tested for STD's? If not why?
Posted: 3/26/2007 11:59:47 AM | | i make it a rule to be tested every 4 months or so, and expect that my partners do the same at least twice a year (yes i ask). if you are sexually active & don't have a longterm monogamous/exclusive partner, you're a deluded fool if you don't think you need to be tested. it's about personal responsibility and respect for both yourself and all your partners. | |
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| How many of you actually get tested for STD's? If not why?
Posted: 3/26/2007 12:16:43 PM | Yes I do................
From the number of children born to unmarried parents who are just having sex, it seems to me that there are a lot of people out there who don't use any type of birth control much less condoms. Remember, if you have unprotected sex with someone you are having sex with everyone they have unprotected sex with and so on and so on. There is a guy here that has about 15 kids and he refuses to wear a condom and tells the women that he won't have anything to do with them if he sues for child support and these women fight over him. I realize there are some guys who don't like to wear condoms, but if you aren't in a monogamous relationship cover it up or keep it zipped up is what I tell my son.
Most women are tested when they are pregnant, but by then it is too late, you have already put your baby at risk. | |
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| How many of you actually get tested for STD's? If not why?
Posted: 3/26/2007 12:46:40 PM | (If you are going to be my man and it's getting serious?)
I don't ask if he is tested, I make him set an appointment for a full physical, INCLUDING the AIDS/HIV test and physically go with him to the doctor.
I know of a woman that was married for about 5 years. They had one child. In the beginning, he told her that yes, he had his AIDS test done and it was negative. To make a long story short, he never got the test done, and was positive for HIV.
She found out when the nurse called the house to get him to come in right away. Fortunately, the woman did not contract AIDS, and neither did the child.
The point is it's a wild, wild world out there. Unless I see it, I'm not believing it. I won't doubt you outright but I will not accept your word (on something as life threatening as AIDS) on blind faith either.
Get a test done at the BEGINNING OF THE RELATIONSHIP for BOTH of you at the SAME TIME 
6 Months from that date, TAKE ANOTHER ONE, TOGETHER!
It takes AIDS/HIV anywhere from 6 weeks to 6 months to be detected in the body. The insta-AIDS tests are ok but if you want to be 100% sure (especially since we're all freaks and transfer bodily fluids in a manner of ways :-) take one at the on--set and another 6 onths from them.
And either stay faithful or PRACTICE safe sex with everyone you are sexually active with. Why is it so much easier to spread death than to create life?
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| How many of you actually get tested for STD's? If not why?
Posted: 3/26/2007 3:01:53 PM | Just because you are picky does not mean the person you are with is or has been. You can hope that they are honest, but there is an 18 yo on here who says she has had sex with 23 men. Think she's gonna fess up to that? Not! When you have sex with someone, you are having sex with whoever they have ever had sex with and the people they have had sex with, et cet......
Get tested, and then you will know. | |
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| How many of you actually get tested for STD's? If not why?
Posted: 3/26/2007 3:29:49 PM | | Military personnel get checked for HIV during annual physicals and prior to any overseas deployment, which generally occurs every year, so that makes it twice a year for the average schmoe. I can honestly say I do not know, nor have I ever met anyone who's contratced this disease. With military people being more promiscuous than your average person, you would think it's a lot more prevalent. | |
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| How many of you actually get tested for STD's? If not why?
Posted: 3/26/2007 3:48:58 PM | I was one of those people who played russian roulette with my life....& now live with my mistakes...but I am now more careful and yes have always gotten tested. I also found out that you can get herpes from sitting on a toilet, although highly unlikely--it's true folks! This information was given to me by a public health nurse, so I don't want to get you paronoid...but just another reason why it's good to wipe that toilet seat down before sitting :)
Take Cares.... | |
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| How many of you actually get tested for STD's? If not why?
Posted: 3/26/2007 3:52:17 PM | I get tested at LEAST yearly. They always ask if you want to be tested when you go in for a pap smear! It would not be wise to refuse.
Here's the deal; Even if you have not had sex with anyone in, say , a year...
you should STILL be tested.
Why, you ask???
Because something like HIV or the HERPES virus can lie dormant in your system for years before becoming active.
You could literally get the virus from someone you slept with 10 years ago.
And everyone should be willing to be tested upon request. If you have nothing to hide, what would be the problem? It is a very considerate thing to do for your mate. It shows how much you care! | |
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| How many of you actually get tested for STD's? If not why?
Posted: 3/27/2007 7:44:30 AM | I get tested every six months,
YOu have to in this day and age, even with condoms you aren't exempt from catching things, They have oral sex condoms (dental dams) so men can go down on a woman, for that reason, among other safe products.......................LOL
I mean you pretty much have to wear full body armor now a days, in order to stay safe! 
Ya every 6 months is good and there are free clinics all over! | |
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| How many of you actually get tested for STD's? If not why?
Posted: 3/27/2007 9:57:29 AM | | Definitely. I get tested regularly, it's no big deal to get done, but vitally important for you and your partners. And here in Vancouver, the std clinic (definitely best place to get your tests done, with fastest results too) have free condoms so when I go I stock up on some condoms while I'm there. | |
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| How many of you actually get tested for STD's? If not why?
Posted: 3/27/2007 3:29:00 PM | | I hope the people you are picky with have been picky also. I see it everyday at work. Young and old. You think people would have enough common sence in 2007 to practice safe sex. Abortions are being used as birth control tisk tisk. Most are teenagers. 3 months, 6 months, 1 yr is not knowing someone. Just remember no glove no love. Or as I have told my children both boys, double up if you have to and dont take a girls word that she is "safe". | |
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| How many of you actually get tested for STD's? If not why?
Posted: 3/27/2007 3:38:03 PM | I'm always amazed when I read "Well, I'm picky so I don't have anything to worry about." Even picky people have the virus and even picky people have all varieties of stds. Pickiness doesn't keep you safe.
Testing is vital. And more than one test. Every six months until you have been monogamous for a year (and most often, condoms are a good idea throughout that time.) Then if all tests are clean, by all means ~ go wild au-naturale. Otherwise, condoms are mandatory. Picky may be a nice thing and we all like to think that we have stellar perception and the ability to pick quality partners ~ truth is, if you've had unprotected sex one time, you are at risk. JMO  | |
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