How often do you get STD tested?

How often do you get tested for an STD? As a woman I get tested once a year when I go to the gyno and get my yearly physical.

 

I am due for testing since I've been single for a bit. If I am not in a relationship I'd say at least once a year.

I am amazed to how many woman will just lay down with no conversation about STD's.

 

Me too. :sunny:

I guess if I thought I had a problem or had unprotected sex with a bit of a random guy I'd go see my doctor. My quack is really good and nothing seems intrusive with her.

 

Never been tested. I don't get into bed with a guy unless I trust him and his type of care about himself, as in cleanliness and messing around with many while he was single. Never picked up anything.

 

Oh well throw your hands in the air and have a party, Sally. I found that to be a very ignorant post blatantly targeting the posters above you as being dirty of sorts. Like, lol, no guy EVER before admits to only having protected sex with like one girl. And just because somebody "takes care of themselves" doesn't necessarily mean they haven't got a problem. Perhaps you actually do, you're a carrier and you don't even know it and too ignorant to realise?

I get checked when I go in for Pap test or whenever I'm in a doctors room. Little swipes get sent away, nothing has ever come back wrong but it's always nice to be safe plus the swipe tests more than just an STD, it's just general vagina health too.

 

Every 30 minutes

 

I hope you select Medicare to take bulk billing Vanilla. Lol.

 

Wow, you took that personal. I never said anything about anyone but me and my own policies, no one else's. I don't do one nighters, that's just me. You just basically told me my honest answer to the question was a slap in your face and it was just an honest answer. Take a happy pill, it'll do ya good.

 

I don't sleep with guys so I never took anything personally I just thought it was a little arrogant ya know? That's how I read it, that's my perception.

 

I feel ya. I was going to post something similar, but then I remembered what HF is like and decided not to join in.

 

Not joining in would have looked better if you hadn't of posted in the thread you said you weren't going to post in because users on HF are a bit.. out there.

Nomsayin'?

 

Hey Irm, got an itch you wanna tell us about?

 

I tell you hwat, sometimes my nose is so itchy that I've come up with instruments to stick up there to tickle and help me sneeze voluntarily.

 

You saying a person can only get an STD from sleeping with guys? On that note I am jumping the fence starting tomorrow, all girl on girl action for me now.

Disclaimer,,,
I hope you see the humour in this post, I did.

 

Nope, not saying that at all. Your post was about sleeping with guys, I was referring to your post, hence why I said I do not sleep with guys. Now the serious posters in this thread were all female which is interesting because statistically speaking just on HF itself it appears that females are more aware of STDs and are quite confident in getting checked up on etc. at this moment in time on HF no men are speaking up which tells me I've got a better chance at not contracting a sexual disease from a woman than I would with a man.
Personally I tend to stick to girls that have only been with girls (construed in the moment bi girls obviously) but I'm also reluctant to explore with people who don't provide a clean record from a doctor.

At least in my eyes I can safely say I have a better chance at not contracting an STD based solely on that than you do with simple "trust" in a guy that he is clean and hasn't slept with too many people.

 

I'm hearin' ya. But I'm not afraid to talk to the "out there" people. It's just sometimes common for opinions to be "attacked" even when a thread is asking for opinions.

And I use attacked loosely because I'm not saying anyone attacked anyone.

 

You do know that you can't see viruses, right??

 

Only the end of page 1 and page 2 got all " personal attack" vibe in my reading of this thread.

And it seems to me that in this case, Sally made a post in her 1st person, and then others projected and compared themselves into her post to find personal meaning derived from what could or might not be implied based on their subjective views.

Sally is mistaken though, or at the very least is not addressing the full nature and reasons why one should get tested for STD/STI's.

Given that the world of microbiology is very tricky and changing all the time, it is becoming more possible for people to contract STD's and STI's even if one is a complete virgin of ALL types of sexual activity.

Dirty needles, randomly getting cut or mugged, getting infected at a beauty salon, or even a kiss with a microcut in which blood is exchanged can make you sick or a carrier.


So it is always wise to get checked up.


I get myself checked on every month if I'm sexually active and one time every six months if I am not.



Did you know that if you swim in a public pool, you can contract either type of the Herpes virus or from a unclean scissors or foot spa at a nail salon? And don't even get me started about what the gym or PE locker room can infect you with.

 

I have to agree with her, you basically said trust whatever a.guy says minutes before he's going to unload

 

Yearly testing is recommended if not in a relationship or if you have unprotected sex with a new partner.