Where you ever tested for HIV/STDS/AIDS?
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I get tested all the time at my Ob/Gyn so I feel ya on that lol.
Originally posted by
Redboxbaby
In the military, it isn't really a choice that you are given. They tested us annually regardless of our relationship/sexual status. I never could understand it, being that I was married and had been for a long time.
03/02/2011
Of course!
The first time, I had an allergic reaction to a cream. My doctor was away, and the one filling in for her thought it looked like herpes. I called all of my exes in a panic. It was not. I called my exes back, but one of them never spoke to me again, not even to find out that I didn't give her herpes.
The second time, I found out that my ex had been cheating on me with a rather promiscuous young lady.
The third time, I slept with that ex again (weak!) and then heard that she had herpes. I got tested again.
However, I am miraculously STD-free!
The first time, I had an allergic reaction to a cream. My doctor was away, and the one filling in for her thought it looked like herpes. I called all of my exes in a panic. It was not. I called my exes back, but one of them never spoke to me again, not even to find out that I didn't give her herpes.
The second time, I found out that my ex had been cheating on me with a rather promiscuous young lady.
The third time, I slept with that ex again (weak!) and then heard that she had herpes. I got tested again.
However, I am miraculously STD-free!
03/03/2011
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I turned down an HIV test during my pregnancies because pregnancy can cause a false positive and then DCFS can come in and get in your business, "demand" you stop breastfeeding, take your kid away and it's all bullshit. My doctor honored my desire to refuse "mandatory" testing during pregnancy. I agreed to the syphilis, gonorrhea, chlamydia etc, but not the HIV test. Most pregnant women who test positive for syph or the Clap (which are treatable and not nearly as dangerous as HIV) think or swear they are in monogamous relationships. HIV really has a different ball game. Syph and the Clap are MUCH more transmittable than HIV and thus more common in the general hetero population.
Originally posted by
Pleasure Piratess
Some screening are routine here with a yearly pap screen (which is required for birth control) and a full work-up with pregnancy... and this is regardless of how many partners you have had (which is sadly necessary).
I think I was tested once while not pregnant a long time ago. It was negative, of course. I'm in a monogamous relationship, and have never had anal play or sex with anyone with him and he has never had anal play or sex with anyone but me.
Although "everyone is at risk" most people are not at high risk. I know it's like being a heretic to say this, but I know I'm not at high risk and I've seen too many false positives ruin people's lives. A false positive will follow you the rest of your life, as it is NOT one of the things which are "private" in your medical record (actually, little if any of your medical record is private in any way.) If one engages in high risk behavior (hetero PIV or oral sex really isn't "high risk" behavior in the USA, no matter what people say) then it's smart to get tested.
But, not during a pregnancy, or if one is involved in a known monogamous relationship, especially if it's long term.
03/03/2011
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I have been tested in the past as has my wife. Nothing to be scared about. Knowing is so much better than fear. You do need to be re tested if you believe you may have been in contact though, because it can take several months to show up in your blood test!
Originally posted by
SapphirexIce
This is just a general question to see how many people actually get tested.
03/03/2011
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She is not required by law to test you for HIV to give you the BC pill. No one can force you, for any reason to have an HIV test.
Originally posted by
darthkitt3n
I get tested whenever I go to the gynecologist. She tests me for several different STDs. I don't really care one way or the other about her testing, but I think it's required for her to give me prescriptions for birth control.
Some hospitals prefer doctors do a PAP every year or two in order to renew BC pills, and in some states one has to have a syphilis test in order to get married (but in most states this is changing due to personal privacy) but no one is "required" to get an HIV test. It's even hard to require rape suspects or even convicted rapists to have an HIV test if they do not consent.
Any test of your body bodily fluid or blood can be considered an invasion of your privacy, and very few medical test are "required" by any law.
03/03/2011
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This. Even though they were long term monogamous (supposedly) partners, you never know. I wanted the piece of mind and to be able to tell my next partner yes I've been tested and I am clean.
Originally posted by
Lucidity
I get tested for everything after every partner, even if we used protection. Better safe than sorry.
03/03/2011
