STI Clinics in Ireland (list in first post updated 10/08/2010)

Victor

gistered wrote: »

Assuming your partner isn't an IV drug user or has sex with other men - there is something in the region of 0.1% chance that he has HIV - which I feel is the biggest concern. HEP B is possible (have you ever been vaccinated)?

Generally, I wouldn't worry about syphillis as it is extremely rare especially so in the heterosexual community. circa 80% of syphillis cases are in men who have sex with men.

Risk will vary based on location, age, gender, orientation, promiscuity, substance abuse and other factors.

I think you should wait 13 weeks (from your exposure) to be sure.

Getting tested sooner rather than later is better. While early testing may not be foolproof, early detection means early treatment. Early treatment means a reduced risk of an infection taking hold.

Bottle_of_Smoke

Victor wrote: »

Getting tested sooner rather than later is better. While early testing may not be foolproof, early detection means early treatment. Early treatment means a reduced risk of an infection taking hold.

I think he only meant that for the HIV/HEP stuff, everything else he said can get tested after 5 days.

LegacyUser

Victor wrote: »

Risk will vary based on location, age, gender, orientation, promiscuity, substance abuse and other factors.

Getting tested sooner rather than later is better. While early testing may not be foolproof, early detection means early treatment. Early treatment means a reduced risk of an infection taking hold.

WHO stats show that in industrialised countries including Finland the risk of a male (or female) having HIV is 0.1% assuming they are not an IV drug user, are not men who have sex with other men or do not work in the adult/sex industry.

My response to the OP is based on the information provided and the risk assessment of these situations carried out by STI specialists. As I stated and advised her though, she is at risk (even if small) and therefore should be tested accordingly.

The treatment of curable STIs such as chlamydia etc... can be started at any time in the early course of the infection (first 6 months) Without symptoms or immediate pain etc... there is no practical advantage to be treated for these at 5 days compared to 13 weeks. So I stand by my recommendation to wait to be tested when ALL tests would be conclusive. This is a greater practical advantage for an individual in terms of access to services, costs, anxiety etc... Of course if an individual is so inclined they can be tested whenever or as many times as they like.

My advice of course was provided on the basis that the individual does not have a regular sex partner. If she had I would recommend testing after 5 days for chlamydia, gonorrhea and abstinence until given the all clear - so as to avoid infecting the other person and then becoming reinfected at a later date (ping pong effect).

LegacyUser

How much would it cost to get a taxi from O'Connell Street to Dr Freedman's clinic in Ranelagh??

It's 2.7 miles according to google maps. I don't know my way around dublin, and Dr Freedman seems to be the guy to see. The bus stops near O'Connell Street, and from there, I wouldn't know where to go, so my best bet seems to be to get a taxi.

Victor

It will depend on traffic and time of day, but probably about 8-10 euro.

Alternatively the following buses serve Ranelagh from the city centre - 11/a/b, 44, 48a.

11/a/b - Gresham Hotel, O'Connell Street
44 - Screen Cinema, Townsend Street
48a - D'Olier Street, at TCD end

http://194.106.151.179/your_journey/city_centre.asp

Freedman's address seems to be in the middle of Ranelagh Village.

Victor

Victor wrote: »

Freedman's address seems to be in the middle of Ranelagh Village.

Its seems to be across the road from Meagher's Pharmacy.

muletide

Unregistered wrote: »

How much would it cost to get a taxi from O'Connell Street to Dr Freedman's clinic in Ranelagh??

It's 2.7 miles according to google maps. I don't know my way around dublin, and Dr Freedman seems to be the guy to see. The bus stops near O'Connell Street, and from there, I wouldn't know where to go, so my best bet seems to be to get a taxi.

Best of luck with your apopointment - Just a small bit of advice if you are posting annonymously (sp) then you shouldn't post the same question, re: the taxi, in another forum with your name

sam34

muletide wrote: »

Best of luck with your apopointment - Just a small bit of advice if you are posting annonymously (sp) then you shouldn't post the same question, re: the taxi, in another forum with your name

and maybe you should have the decency not to draw others attention to it :rolleyes:

LegacyUser

sooo I am totally freaking out. I had a condom protected exposure about 8 months ago with a high risk partner (ex prostitute) I didn't know she was at the time but found at later through her friend. It has scared the pants off me.

I got full STI screening 5 days after the exposure, 8.5 weeks after the exposure and 13.5 weeks after the exposure. All negative. So all good you would think. Well, no I am still completely freaked out about HIV. so I said I'd have a one more test at 34 weeks after the exposure in order to comply with the old conservative 6 month conclusive guidelines.

I got this done at the Wellwoman clinic almost 4 weeks ago. They said results would be 2-3 weeks and they would write out. Decided to ring today to see if results were in. I rang at about 3pm and I was told be the girl that some of the results were in (I got HIV, HEP B/C & Syphillis tests). She then said the doctor was currently with a patient but she would get her to ring me back. Ok? started to panic? If the results were negative couldn't the girl (presumably the admin worker) give me the results? Well I waited and waited and no call came.

I cant sleep tonight.I am so freaked out by all this - the length of time taken to get results, the fact that the girl didn;t give them to me and the fact that the doc never rang back. Surely thats bad.

Has anyone ever experienced this? AM I over reacting. pls help

Cellar_Door

muletide wrote: »

Best of luck with your apopointment - Just a small bit of advice if you are posting annonymously (sp) then you shouldn't post the same question, re: the taxi, in another forum with your name

Nah, I'm aware of that. I just wanted to see how to post anonymously.

Bottle_of_Smoke

freakout wrote: »

sooo I am totally freaking out. I had a condom protected exposure about 8 months ago with a high risk partner (ex prostitute) I didn't know she was at the time but found at later through her friend. It has scared the pants off me.

I got full STI screening 5 days after the exposure, 8.5 weeks after the exposure and 13.5 weeks after the exposure. All negative. So all good you would think. Well, no I am still completely freaked out about HIV. so I said I'd have a one more test at 34 weeks after the exposure in order to comply with the old conservative 6 month conclusive guidelines.

I got this done at the Wellwoman clinic almost 4 weeks ago. They said results would be 2-3 weeks and they would write out. Decided to ring today to see if results were in. I rang at about 3pm and I was told be the girl that some of the results were in (I got HIV, HEP B/C & Syphillis tests). She then said the doctor was currently with a patient but she would get her to ring me back. Ok? started to panic? If the results were negative couldn't the girl (presumably the admin worker) give me the results? Well I waited and waited and no call came.

I cant sleep tonight.I am so freaked out by all this - the length of time taken to get results, the fact that the girl didn;t give them to me and the fact that the doc never rang back. Surely thats bad.

Has anyone ever experienced this? AM I over reacting. pls help

I'd imagine the policy is only the doctor can give results, good or bad.

Think about it, imagine you were a high risk person, IV drug user or MSM. You'd prob get those tests quite regularly. So if after your first time the admin said "everything's fine" you'd know the second time if she told you to wait for the doc I'm sure sensitve issues like this have very strict procedure. I know when I got tested before you were put on to the doctor. And with the GP you actually had to make an appointment to get the results!

You used a condom, that pretty much guarantees your safety for HIV, and you got a test after 13.5 weeks. Also, if you had the virus, they'd have phoned you after 2 weeks to discuss.

Imagine it was someone else, you'd tell them not to worry. you'll be fine.

LegacyUser

Does anyone know what the story is with the mater sti clinic. I have a appointment in a few weeks time and I was wondering do you have to queue or is it just on the appointment time, is it free and what's their procedure i.e is it just bloods and swabs or is there an exam involved as well??? I'm will be doing a exam on the day of the appointment and I can't really hang around for too long and I've literally no other day to get it done and I certainly cannot go down the GP route??
Thanks in advance!

MonkeyBalls

I went to Dr Freedman in Ranelagh. Nice guy.

It wasn't the most pleasant experience, but your imagination makes it far worse beforehand. I The swab down the cock is more psychologically horrible than physically.

Anyway, the whole thing takes about 15 minutes. Costs €180. You get the results about a week later, when you call him back with a little pin code they give you.

When it came time to call them for the results, I was nervous as fuk. I paced the room for about 20 minutes, then made the call, and was told I was clean. Thank Christ. Such a relief.

CaptainSkidmark

i taught it was free?

LegacyUser

MonkeyBalls wrote: »

I went to Dr Freedman in Ranelagh. Nice guy.

It wasn't the most pleasant experience, but your imagination makes it far worse beforehand. I The swab down the cock is more psychologically horrible than physically.

Anyway, the whole thing takes about 15 minutes. Costs €180. You get the results about a week later, when you call him back with a little pin code they give you.

When it came time to call them for the results, I was nervous as fuk. I paced the room for about 20 minutes, then made the call, and was told I was clean. Thank Christ. Such a relief.

were you examined by a nurse or by dr freedman?

if a nurse, were they male or female?

is teh doc young or old?

id much prefer to be seen by a middle aged male doc rather than a younger one or a female one

Nevyn

Dr Freedman operates a private clinic.

It is the mater clinic and st james that are free.

crotalus667

does anyone know if the guide clinic in st james is tilll running a walk in sti clinic on mondays ?? (i know it sy's so on their website but I tried ringing to confirm and got no answer)

AARRRGH

crotalus667 wrote: »

does anyone know if the guide clinic in st james is tilll running a walk in sti clinic on mondays ?? (i know it sy's so on their website but I tried ringing to confirm and got no answer)

You should definitely confirm they are open before you waste your time trekking down there. Sometimes they are closed due to staff meetings and stuff like that.

crotalus667

AARRRGH wrote: »

You should definitely confirm they are open before you waste your time trekking down there.

That’s what I am trying to do but I need to see go asap so if I cant confirm their open I might just have to risk it chance it that they are

Bottle_of_Smoke

Unregistered wrote: »

were you examined by a nurse or by dr freedman?

if a nurse, were they male or female?

is teh doc young or old?

id much prefer to be seen by a middle aged male doc rather than a younger one or a female one

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Nevyn

crotalus667 wrote: »

That’s what I am trying to do but I need to see go asap so if I cant confirm their open I might just have to risk it chance it that they are

Lift up the phone and ring and ask.

crotalus667

Thaedydal wrote: »

Lift up the phone and ring and ask.

I did, a couple of times before I posted my op , no one answered the telephone any ways I tried again this after noon and spoke to a very helpful guy who informed me that thy where open Monday am so it looks like I will be on the first train in to town on Monday morning

AARRRGH

Hey you might find this interesting - a friend of mine went to the James' clinic today. He was there at 6.30 in the morning and was first in line.

It turns out the people who stroll in at 9 and 9.30 were seen before him. As they don't have a 'waiting number' they go straight into the clinic instead of having to wait in the waiting room. He says the people who arrived after him were seen before him, and he was seen last! Yep, first in, last out...

So don't bother with the arriving a few hours early nonsense.

crotalus667

AARRRGH wrote: »

Hey you might find this interesting - a friend of mine went to the James' clinic today. He was there at 6.30 in the morning and was first in line.

Emmm nope he wasn’t I was second inline (got there at 6:10) and a girl was first (there was a guy that got there about 6:30 he was forth I think , a lot of people did not have to take a number because they came in for other reasons than the sti clinic (they run a hiv clinic , vaccinations clinic and afaik they take a few people by appointment and they also handel general infectious diseases ) a lot of these people where in the main area before everyone else started to get registered . I was out of there in just under 6 (that’s including queuing up time) hours and a lot of the people where still waiting to be seen (I had to wait for pillimanary result’s) there where 25 numbers up for grabs and there was a nurse in charge of allowing anymore to be handed out (they seemed to do this to special cases , I was told on the phone when I doubted I would be able to get there on time because of my circumstances regaurding why i was going there I would still get to see some one).

The way it seems to work is although you are registered in the order you come in , your file is allocated to a specific doctor so you get seen when that doctor gets threw the others in front of you in his pile ,I was number 2 but number 3 could have been before me to see the same doc because there where 3 people registering us, some doctors definitely seemed to be faster than other’s ( I saw a very nice female doctor who was excellent , a prime example of the type of person you want working in the clinic)

If you want to be seen relatively quickly I suggest that any one going gets there before 6:45 that’s when the cue seemed to explode after 7:15 any one coming was at the end of the cue alternatively if your not in a hurry to be seen they do see people by appointment (I’m not sure what the waiting time is but if you are just getting a check up a few weeks wont matter)

AARRRGH

I just spoke to my friend and apparently you have side burns. Yeah he was next to you.

He says he chatted to one person who arrived late and they didn't have an appointment, so maybe the nurses do let people in on a case by case basis. They still got seen before him though!

crotalus667

AARRRGH wrote: »

I just spoke to my friend and apparently you have side burns.

Yeah I do their still cool right ?? (I hope they are because every time I cut them they grow back:p)

MonkeyBalls

Unregistered wrote: »

were you examined by a nurse or by dr freedman?

if a nurse, were they male or female?

is teh doc young or old?

id much prefer to be seen by a middle aged male doc rather than a younger one or a female one

1. Examined by Dr Freedman.

2. No nurse. I only met the secretary - an attractive young woman - and Dr Freedman. Actually there was an older woman who passed through the waiting room for a second, think she was a nurse. Meh.

3. He's in his 40s, I suppose.

Any other questions, fire them my way.

LegacyUser

Who ever that person is requesting details about that girls 'big mistake' you ought to be ashamed of yourself Im a health professional and You're exploiting her ignorance as you there is no such statistic as a '0.1% chance of HIV transmission unless homosexual or IV drug user' - that is ignorant stigmatism! Also you most certainly dont need to know where it happened etc etc.
My advice would be you cannot take any chances when it comes to your health, unprotected sex of any form carries associated risks. Go to your nearst GUM clinic and you are not obliged to answer questions which make you feel uncomfortable.
Be good!!!

AARRRGH

Unregistered wrote: »

Who ever that person is requesting details about that girls 'big mistake' you ought to be ashamed of yourself Im a health professional and You're exploiting her ignorance as you there is no such statistic as a '0.1% chance of HIV transmission unless homosexual or IV drug user' - that is ignorant stigmatism! Also you most certainly dont need to know where it happened etc etc.

If you're a 'professional' you should know the statistic for heterosexual transmission is indeed in the 0.1% to 0.01% range. Look up the "Padian" study for proof of this.

LegacyUser

Been to James' and Dr. Freedman! All clear on both counts. Still have small problem which is obviously now not related to a sti. Can anyone recommend a good "willy doctor" in the Dublin area?