Have you ever had an STI check?

common sense brigade · 25-02-2011 03:27PM

Its a witty play on your username, take your time.

Just because you claim something is witty doesnt make it so.

ibarelycare · 25-02-2011 03:29PM

common sense brigade wrote: »

wow Lumen your sure witty. Do you feel big now? Insulting people. well done.

Where was the insult?

mud · 25-02-2011 03:30PM

Yeah, I've been checked. Had an awful experience really . . . had some symptoms, myself and the new bf decided to get checked, I got called into the room afterwards with the doc. She said there was 'something there' alright. I nearly passed out, was begging her to tell me. She mumbled something about CHLAMYDIA. Made me and the bf take super-strong anti-biotics there in front of her and told us to come back in a week when the results were back.

Spent one of the worst weeks of my life thinking I had chlamydia, had ****ed up my chances of having children and would have to make the calls of shame to exes to make sure they got checked.

Landed back in to the sti clinic the following week to be told that I never had chlamydia, just a urinary tract infection, I went a bit spare because imo the doc should never have said the C word to me until she was sure, and wtf was with giving us a massive dose of strong antibiotics when the infection was never there?

Obviously was totally relieved but was totally worn out from it too.

Gummy Panda · 25-02-2011 03:30PM

common sense brigade wrote: »

Just because you claim something is witty doesnt make it so.

I thought it was witty

krudler · 25-02-2011 03:30PM

common sense brigade wrote: »

Just because you claim something is witty doesnt make it so.

ok have a look at your name, now read Lumens post.

now back at your name.

back to Lumens post.

your name again, then Lumens post.

Is it sinking in yet?

again, take your time.

Lumen · 25-02-2011 03:33PM

Sense of humour failure ahead, hard to starboard!

Anyway, a fundamental problem with STI testing is that it doesn't protect you from getting an STI, it protects other people, so the people who volunteer for checks tend to be those who are responsible anyway, i.e. low-risk.

So arguably it is more important that you pressure your partner to have checks than to get a check done yourself.

I have heard it said that you should always do it anonymously and never subsequently admit to having it done (administratively speaking) as it can affect insurance premiums. I don't know how it works in Ireland.

df1985 · 25-02-2011 03:34PM

riddled!

had two checks, nothing to report!

_feedback_ · 25-02-2011 03:34PM

Lads, less of the bickering. Bit of common sense please.

common sense brigade · 25-02-2011 03:36PM

ok have a look at your name, now read Lumens post.

now back at your name.

back to Lumens post.

your name again, then Lumens post.

Is it sinking in yet?

again, take your time

Sorry Krudler i didnt realise you and Lumen were dating. hopefully you take the humour in that.

Gummy Panda · 25-02-2011 03:37PM

common sense brigade wrote: »

Sorry Krudler i didnt realise you and Lumen were dating. hopefully you take the humour in that.

Well they have to get their STD check first before things get serious

Jumpy · 25-02-2011 03:37PM

Lumen wrote: »

I knew it wouldn't be long before the common sense brigade turned up.

They certainly arent the humour brigade though are they?

krudler · 25-02-2011 03:38PM

common sense brigade wrote: »

Sorry Krudler i didnt realise you and Lumen were dating. hopefully you take the humour in that.

we were but he cheated on me.

btw Lumen I want my Sade cd's back.

mud · 25-02-2011 03:38PM

df1985 wrote: »

riddled!

had two checks, nothing to report!

Ha ha, I just remembered being so nervous in the clinic that everytime someone's named was called I was saying 'riddled' to myself and bursting laughing. Wasn't so funny after being called in to the office though

On a different note, someone (girl) I used to be friends with, refused to have an std test out of embarassment. She has had a lot of unprotected sex but is too embarassed to let a professional check her over. How does that work?

25-02-2011 03:40PM

common sense brigade wrote: »

Its a cotton swab and painless

That was not my experience last year. Maybe it differs from dr to dr.

Lumen · 25-02-2011 03:40PM

mud wrote: »

On a different note, someone (girl) I used to be friends with, refused to have an std test out of embarassment. She has had a lot of unprotected sex but is too embarassed to let a professional check her over. How does that work?

Simple correlation - easily embarrassed people are likely not to insist on protected sex.

krudler · 25-02-2011 03:40PM

mud wrote: »

Ha ha, I just remembered being so nervous in the clinic that everytime someone's named was called I was saying 'riddled' to myself and bursting laughing. Wasn't so funny after being called in to the office though

On a different note, someone (girl) I used to be friends with, refused to have an std test out of embarassment. She has had a lot of unprotected sex but is too embarassed to let a professional check her over. How does that work?

I know a girl that actually doesnt know how many men shes slept with, she knows its 150+ and most of them are one night stands, some with no protection, as shes too shy to buy condoms.

seriously, wtf.

Bottle_of_Smoke · 25-02-2011 03:40PM

mud wrote: »

Yeah, I've been checked. Had an awful experience really . . . had some symptoms, myself and the new bf decided to get checked, I got called into the room afterwards with the doc. She said there was 'something there' alright. I nearly passed out, was begging her to tell me. She mumbled something about CHLAMYDIA. Made me and the bf take super-strong anti-biotics there in front of her and told us to come back in a week when the results were back.

Spent one of the worst weeks of my life thinking I had chlamydia, had ****ed up my chances of having children and would have to make the calls of shame to exes to make sure they got checked.

Landed back in to the sti clinic the following week to be told that I never had chlamydia, just a urinary tract infection, I went a bit spare because imo the doc should never have said the C word to me until she was sure, and wtf was with giving us a massive dose of strong antibiotics when the infection was never there?

Obviously was totally relieved but was totally worn out from it too.

I don't see anything wrong with what the doctors did there. Its only a tiny percentage of people who get chlamydia become infertile. The anti-biotic didn't do you any real harm so given your symptoms it was the right thing to do.

Your urinary tract infection could have been caused by bacteria transmitted sexually. Non-specific urithritis I think is the term used. Though could have been caused by something non-sexual too.

People need to realise most STIs aren't a big deal, no one intends to get one so there shouldn't be any shame in calling your exes

Bottle_of_Smoke · 25-02-2011 03:41PM

krudler wrote: »

I know a girl that actually doesnt know how many men shes slept with, she knows its 150+ and most of them are one night stands, some with no protection, as shes too shy to buy condoms.

seriously, wtf.

Yeah those condom machines are so judgemental. What a tool.

mud · 25-02-2011 03:42PM

Lumen wrote: »

Simple correlation - easily embarrassed people are likely not to insist on protected sex.

She 'doesn't like' condoms. Risky eejit that she is!

Deleted User wrote: »

That was not my experience last year. Maybe it differs from dr to dr.

My bf was the same . . . cocktail umbrella up the jap's eye. Didn't take long but was painful while it was happening.

Gummy Panda · 25-02-2011 03:42PM

krudler wrote: »

I know a girl that actually doesnt know how many men shes slept with, she knows its 150+ and most of them are one night stands, some with no protection, as shes too shy to buy condoms.

seriously, wtf.

wait a minute... she is too shy to get condoms but isn't too shy to whip her clothes off and do the horizontal tango with random guys?

AskMyChocolate · 25-02-2011 03:45PM

Had a mate (absolute cracker) who tells a great story about going for an interview (she's a nurse) in an STD clinic. She arrived at the hospital in plenty of time but couldn't find the STD clinic. As the interview time grew closer she was left with no option but to ask one of the porters who gave her the wrong directions which then led to her having to hare around frantically asking random people if they knew was she in the right place.
Embarrassing but hilarious.:pac:

krudler · 25-02-2011 03:45PM

Gummy Panda wrote: »

wait a minute... she is too shy to get condoms but isn't too shy to whip her clothes off and do the horizontal tango with random guys?

nope, I've heard of her going home with guys who started talking to her OUTSIDE a nightclub at 3am. wouldnt judge anyone for a one night stand, done it myself, but christ, at least with someone you talked to throughout the night or got to know a little bit, not some randomer at a taxi stand.

hardcore · 25-02-2011 03:47PM

I dont tend to have sex with every woman I see, so no I never had an STI check.

mud · 25-02-2011 03:48PM

Bottle_of_Smoke wrote: »

I don't see anything wrong with what the doctors did there. Its only a tiny percentage of people who get chlamydia become infertile. The anti-biotic didn't do you any real harm so given your symptoms it was the right thing to do.

Your urinary tract infection could have been caused by bacteria transmitted sexually. Non-specific urithritis I think is the term used. Though could have been caused by something non-sexual too.

People need to realise most STIs aren't a big deal, no one intends to get one so there shouldn't be any shame in calling your exes

I'll have to disagree with you there Bottle_of_Smoke. She left me hanging for a week after saying I had a fairly devastating infection.

I had been sexually active for 10 years at that point. Could have been my first lay or my last or anyone in between that passed it to me. If I had been incubating chlamydia for 10 years and passing it around I absolutely hate to think of the amount of people that could have potentially been affected.

It turned out to be a non-sexual ut infection and I got a clean bill of health but that week of waiting put years on me.

I think she should have left it at 'infection' without naming that infection.

krudler · 25-02-2011 03:48PM

hardcore wrote: »

I dont tend to have sex with every woman I see, so no I never had an STI check.

and its that kind of logic that means people dont get checked. it only takes one person to give you one, you dont have to be sleeping around.

krudler · 25-02-2011 03:50PM

Luka Yummy Deodorant wrote: »

Im surprised how careless Irish people are when it comes to unprotected sex and STI tests.
"ignorance is bliss" says one of my mates. And one girl just point blank refuses to use condoms, who has already has a scare with the minor STIs. Seems to be a common attitude. Really don't know why.

because people are immature when it comes to their own sexual health?

hardcore · 25-02-2011 03:59PM

krudler wrote: »

and its that kind of logic that means people dont get checked. it only takes one person to give you one, you dont have to be sleeping around.

I usually tend to have a steady relationship with someone before I have sex with them. I'm not surprised that there would be a high percent of young people that would have STI's given the view that they have on sex. Having One night stands without a condom is looking for trouble.

Uriel. · 25-02-2011 04:00PM

Really and truly in this day and age, anybody who is sexually active outside of a committed monogamous relationship should be getting an STI checkup every year or at least bi-annually anyway - even when they are confident of having being protected.

I would also advise anyone considering getting tested (for what ever reason) that they do so through a public or private STI clinic - where anonymity is guaranteed. Do not go through your GP, as the tests will be on your record along with any explanation given for wanting them - this may become a problem for certain jobs and for certain things like insurance applications etc..

Bottle_of_Smoke · 25-02-2011 04:01PM

mud wrote: »

I'll have to disagree with you there Bottle_of_Smoke. She left me hanging for a week after saying I had a fairly devastating infection.

I had been sexually active for 10 years at that point. Could have been my first lay or my last or anyone in between that passed it to me. If I had been incubating chlamydia for 10 years and passing it around I absolutely hate to think of the amount of people that could have potentially been affected.

It turned out to be a non-sexual ut infection and I got a clean bill of health but that week of waiting put years on me.

I think she should have left it at 'infection' without naming that infection.

My point is that it is not a 'fairly devastating' infection. Its an easily cured common bacterial infection.

Its up to the doctor to balance the probabilities. You come in, describe your symptoms and sex life, she sees some protein/blood etc in your urine - she knows it could be simple UTI but it could be chlamydia, and if it is chlamydia, normal UTI anti-biotics won't get rid of it.

She can't just say ''infection'' it would be poor medical practice given you were being treasted for it. With UTIs you take a daily anti-biotic, chlamydia you take one strong one, she knew it was possible you might have known that so not telling you would be silly.

As for the amount of people who could have gotten infected that would not have been your fault - the onus is on them to look after their sexual health and get checks themselves.

mud · 25-02-2011 04:11PM

Maybe it's because I'm a girl, but chlamydia is one of the major ones for me as there is very little symptoms in women and all the while it is silently affecting your fertility.

You must also take into account the fear that an sti clinic brought out in me. I am always careful but have been in a couple of long-term things where we just used the pill and not condoms.

It's a while ago now but don't you think it was nutty to treat us both for something that was never there?

My buddy is a nurse and she was a bit shocked by the dosage we were given of the particular anti-b used. Ya gotta trust the doc but she caused me a lot of unnecessary anxiety that week.

Have you ever had an STI check?

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