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Nervous about sexual health check up.

  • 02-12-2011 2:27pm
    #1
    LegacyUser
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 166,026 ✭✭✭✭


    Hello all,

    I'm going unregistered for this. I'd appreciate feedback, especially from people with similar experiences.

    I get nervous visiting the doctor, dentist, etc. But the thought of going for a sexual health check up outright terrifies me. I've read about the GMHS (http://www.hse.ie/eng/services/Find_a_Service/Sexualhealth/Gay_Men's_Health_Service/STI_Clinics/), which is free. I know I'm overdue a check up.

    I'm young-ish, I've always been safe and careful, but I know it's common sense to get checked up. I can't decide if it's my waiting room phobia, fear of bad news, or the thought of swabs being stuck in various places that's stopping me going. I'm out and I think I'm quite comfortable with my sexuality, but, if I'm honest, I think that going to a gay men's health centre would probably make me uncomfortable. It says there you may have to wait two hours. I'm bad enough waiting ten minutes to renew a prescription, let alone waiting two hours in a place where I'd probably be embarrassed or uncomfortable.

    What are your experiences of getting checked up? What exactly does it involve? I'm aware I sound more than a little irrational. :)


Comments

  • #2
    DinaRaven
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4 ✭DinaRaven


    Where I come from, at 16 students had to to gynecologist for a check-up. I was dreading it since I found out at 13. Thankfully I escaped it by coming here and now I have been so careful to avoid such situations. It's not that irrational. I bite my arm when I'm in my GP waiting room just to avoid a panic attack. I think it's more common than anyone realizes.

    But you should go there for your benefit. Just think of a way you could help yourself go through the whole ordeal. My method is not advisable, but it works on me. You can wear fake mustache if that is what it takes.

    It's a sticky situation indeed. Good luck with overcoming your fears and worries!


  • #3
    Annasopra
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 41,158 ✭✭✭✭Annasopra


    Op do you have a friend who might go with you abduction sit in the waiting room

    It was so much easier to blame it on Them. It was bleakly depressing to think that They were Us. If it was Them, then nothing was anyone's fault. If it was us, what did that make Me? After all, I'm one of Us. I must be. I've certainly never thought of myself as one of Them. No one ever thinks of themselves as one of Them. We're always one of Us. It's Them that do the bad things.

    Terry Pratchet



  • #4
    Dwn Wth Vwls
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 401 ✭✭Dwn Wth Vwls


    It probably will take two hours, especially your first time. You should definitely go now when you don't really have anything to worry about. You don't want your first time to be if you think you might have something. Also you need the vaccinations they offer.

    Nobody wants to go there, but just bring a book with you (not music, you need to hear your name called). It's just a room full of guys sitting around waiting, then a bigger room full of guys sitting around waiting. Then halfway through your visit you realise how hungry you are and that you forgot to bring anything to eat. Then you realise you need to pee, but you can't because you have to wait for the urine test.

    Basically it's a very boring mundane experience. There's no point worrying about it. You get the all clear a week later by text message.


  • #5
    LegacyUser
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 166,026 ✭✭✭✭LegacyUser


    hey guys !! really would like if any of you know whats involved in getting tested for syphilis.
    Im pretty sure i have it and want to get tested in January! But im scared! as childish as that sounds!! What does the test and treatment involve ?
    Thanks a mill


  • #6
    Dwn Wth Vwls
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 401 ✭✭Dwn Wth Vwls


    ohohhelp wrote: »
    hey guys !! really would like if any of you know whats involved in getting tested for syphilis.
    Im pretty sure i have it and want to get tested in January! But im scared! as childish as that sounds!! What does the test and treatment involve ?
    Thanks a mill

    Generally a blood test. The treatment can be as simple as one injection or possibly tablets. Do not wait till January, it's one of the ones that can get worse the longer you leave it.


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