Did you ever have an STI?

02-03-2019 11:17PM #1

Writing this in the hope we can all do our bit to reduce some of the stigma around STIs, and maybe be more aware of the treatments that are (freely, totally anonymously) available.

I had gonorrhea as a teenager, and pubic lice ('crabs') in my 20s. Both easily addressed, but in both instances, it could have easily been something more long term. I count myself lucky.

Anyone want to share their experiences?

Or even if you've never had an STI, perhaps tell us your experiences of getting checked, so it might not seem so bothersome to others.

For anyone who's never been tested, it's never as big a deal as that which you imagine before you go and have the tests.

Fiftyfilthy · 02-03-2019 11:21PM

Usually go 1-2x a year to Eccles street on my lunch break to get checked out

Simple blood test and urine sample and results in 2 weeks

Treat similar to a dentist check up etc

Peace of mind at the end of the day. I practice safe sex but has been the odd time too

sk8erboii · 02-03-2019 11:25PM

not really STI but i gave this girl the flu once cause she, and i quote, 'Dont care. I want all your diseases.'

lbc2019 · 02-03-2019 11:27PM

No. Been tested regularly

mad muffin · 02-03-2019 11:29PM

I got herpes around my mouth when I was 13.

Stacksofwacks · 02-03-2019 11:38PM

Whats it to you, do you want one?

banie01 · 02-03-2019 11:39PM

mad muffin wrote: »

I got herpes around my mouth when I was 13.

From sucking scabby cocks at 13???

02-03-2019 11:43PM

lbc2019 wrote: »

No. Been tested regularly

fair play. I only had my first routine STI test a few years ago.

The first time you do it is a bit of an ordeal, but now it feels quite uplifting everytme I walk out with the all-clear.

I really think it should be something we do just as routinely as seeing our opticians or our dentists, probably even more so.

Ted Johnson · 02-03-2019 11:45PM

All these degenerates out there getting recked with aids and untreatable gonorreha...

Feels smug man.

Gonad · 02-03-2019 11:47PM

Yes I have had several

My favourite was my 1998 Subaru Impreza

Day Lewin · 02-03-2019 11:52PM

Back in my student days, crabs, once.

A couple of years later, picked up a little something...it was easily treated.

A cautionary lesson, though: what if it had been gono? I wouldn't have my kids!!

USE A DAMN CONDOM !!

03-03-2019 12:06AM

Day Lewin wrote: »

A cautionary lesson, though: what if it had been gono? I wouldn't have my kids!!

my sarcasm detector may be on the blink. That was that a joke, right?

vargoo · 03-03-2019 12:13AM

Girlfriend played away from home for months, found out so off I went to get checked.

6 months of false positives for HepC later, finally all clear. Alot of stress let me tell you, great way to lose weight.

Never not use condom now, can't trust your partner not to give you an incurable pus ozing disease while off in search of strange Mickey.

Junkyard Tom · 03-03-2019 12:25AM

Humans are a sexually transmitted disease.

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nails1 · 03-03-2019 12:32AM

Yea had the wrx version bangin out over 300hp. Absolute machine.

03-03-2019 12:33AM

Scabies once.

The worst thing was that I was still living at home (it happened during the summer after my final year of university) and so I had to tell my parents about it, because if one person in a house contracts scabies then everyone in the house has to get treated as the buggers can crawl onto shared furniture etc. That wasn't my proudest moment.

Also got a UTI once after unprotected* anal sex (*this was with a trusted partner, not with a stranger) - that was rather unpleasant.

But it did teach me the importance of using protection, even if just for the sake of hygiene! Had the dreaded "urethral swab" done to me on that occasion when I went to the GP - not an experience I'm keen to repeat!

mad muffin · 03-03-2019 12:35AM

banie01 wrote: »

From sucking scabby cocks at 13???

Hey… you either get busy husslin or get busy starvin

branie2 · 03-03-2019 12:40AM

No

03-03-2019 12:41AM

[Deleted User] wrote: »

Scabies once.

oh Lord.

That's the nightmare. Had some friends who contracted that once. It's an absolute bugger to deal with.

Had the dreaded "urethral swab" done to me on that occasion when I went to the GP - not an experience I'm keen to repeat!

When I started having STI checks (not in Ireland) that was standard practice. Here, they only ask me to wee into a cup which is far less distressing!

For anyone who hasn't had an STI test and is considering one, the routine is that you answer a few questions about your sexual history; they may or may not ask you for a urine sample, they'll do a rapid HIV test, take your bloods and you'll most likely walk out of there confident that you're in the best of health.

Try it, it's free and completely worth your while.

Wibbs · 03-03-2019 12:45AM

Love.

Day Lewin · 03-03-2019 12:50AM

A Tyrant Named Miltiades! wrote: »

my sarcasm detector may be on the blink. That was that a joke, right?

No. Gonorrhoea causes infertility.
A woman can have had Gono without even knowing it: and even if she did know, and seek treatment, and it was cured, she can still be infertile years later from scarring of the reproductive organs.
Not a laughing matter I assure you.

Giveaway · 03-03-2019 12:52AM

3. The eldest is 8.

03-03-2019 01:00AM

Day Lewin wrote: »

No. Gonorrhoea causes infertility.

how often?

I've no expert knowledge on this subject, but as far as I can see, it shouldn't be of great concern once someone has been treated for gonorrhea and has been given the all-clear.

Not a laughing matter I assure you.

I'm not laughing, just don't want to scare-monger, either.

Ariadne · 03-03-2019 01:06AM

I've had two STI checks in the past. Seems to be the same as getting a smear really. I've never had any STIs and that's just down to pure luck really, lots of drunken stupid unprotected sex in the past. Though I regularly take antibiotics for my lungs that also happen to treat chlamydia and gonorrhea.

Wibbs · 03-03-2019 01:12AM

Oddly enough I'm resistant to HIV infection because of a genetic quirk.

One found in European and near Eastern populations. We muties have a different form of a particular gene (CRC something or other) that means the virus can't attach to the cell and infect it. Apparently and going on genetic testing so far(which have been limited enough) it's carried by 2-3% of the Eurasian populations. It's a very recent mutation too. Like a thousand years old. various theories suggest other viruses like smallpox, or even bacterial infections like the Plague as selecting for it. Problem with that theory is that both were infections, even epidemics in populations that don't have this mutation.

I'd personally reckon it's down to a few epidemics in Europe that weren't those two, but were logged under the description "plague" as they tended to be. A few descriptions of such "plagues" come down to us and they don't follow the usual bubonic plague or smallpox. Some are like ebola, hemorrhagic fever type affairs, others produce mad fevers, others neurological effects, some affected animals as well as people. And "plagues" of varying kinds were a near annual event in Europe all the way back to Roman times, but really kicking off in the late medieval and renaissance. And remember any of us of European stock reading this are the descendants of those people who survived these rolling plagues.

It has been suggested that more Europeans have this mutation than is currently measured and it could be one reason why HIV didn't cause the large numbers of infected the way some populations in sub saharan Africa have suffered.

orourkeda1977 · 03-03-2019 01:16AM

I have an uninfected mickey on me.

J Mysterio · 03-03-2019 01:25AM

Wibbs wrote: »

Oddly enough I'm resistant to HIV infection because of a genetic quirk.

One found in European and near Eastern populations. We muties have a different form of a particular gene (CRC something or other) that means the virus can't attach to the cell and infect it. Apparently and going on genetic testing so far(which have been limited enough) it's carried by 2-3% of the Eurasian populations. It's a very recent mutation too. Like a thousand years old. various theories suggest other viruses like smallpox, or even bacterial infections like the Plague as selecting for it. Problem with that theory is that both were infections, even epidemics in populations that don't have this mutation.

I'd personally reckon it's down to a few epidemics in Europe that weren't those two, but were logged under the description "plague" as they tended to be. A few descriptions of such "plagues" come down to us and they don't follow the usual bubonic plague or smallpox. Some are like ebola, hemorrhagic fever type affairs, others produce mad fevers, others neurological effects, some affected animals as well as people. And "plagues" of varying kinds were a near annual event in Europe all the way back to Roman times, but really kicking off in the late medieval and renaissance. And remember any of us of European stock reading this are the descendants of those people who survived these rolling plagues.

It has been suggested that more Europeans have this mutation than is currently measured and it could be one reason why HIV didn't cause the large numbers of infected the way some populations in sub saharan Africa have suffered.

So... You can't get STI's? Or carry them? That would make you a lucky fucķer. Like a low level superhero. No condomo.

Wibbs · 03-03-2019 01:36AM

J Mysterio wrote: »

So... You can't get STI's? Or carry them? That would make you a lucky fucķer. Like a low level superhero. No condomo.

Well not HIV, at least in its current form. The rest I'm as vulnerable to as anybody, though maybe not herpes or genital warts. Have been exposed to both a few times and come back negative(herpes in particular. Two exes had it and bad outbreaks at times. I got nada and should have). That said I could be a carrier so...

ginandtonicsky · 03-03-2019 01:40AM

I've actually never in my life had unprotected sex. Condoms with all of my partners too. Total paranoia about STis and pregnancy from an early age and even through all the years of drunken fumblings, it's never happened.

Get tested every few years, been a while since my last one now since I've been virtually celibate since my last breakup :pac:

PokeHerKing · 03-03-2019 01:40AM

Wibbs wrote:

It has been suggested that more Europeans have this mutation than is currently measured and it could be one reason why HIV didn't cause the large numbers of infected the way some populations in sub saharan Africa have suffered.

How do we find out if we're immune to stds/hiv? Asking for a freind....

BeerWolf · 03-03-2019 01:41AM

I'm as clean as an unused whistle.

Did you ever have an STI?

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