{"id":6586,"date":"2013-11-29T13:04:01","date_gmt":"2013-11-29T13:04:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/miss-s-b.dreamwidth.org\/1460308.html"},"modified":"2013-11-29T13:04:01","modified_gmt":"2013-11-29T13:04:01","slug":"responsible-poly-part-2-sexual-health-screening-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bimedia.org\/blogs\/2013\/11\/responsible-poly-part-2-sexual-health-screening-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Responsible Poly Part 2: Sexual Health Screening."},"content":{"rendered":"

So we’re just getting to the end of National HIV testing week<\/a>, and as I said in my post the other day<\/a> part of being responsibly poly is not just to play safe, but to get yourself regularly tested. I last got tested for everything as part of the huge numbers of tests they did for my mystery abdominal pain* in May, so it’s been about 6 months. So today I went to get tested. I suspect that this is another one of those posts people will accuse me of being “brave” for writing. As usual, I’m not being brave, I’m doing something necessary.<\/p>\n

I can’t talk about what it’s like for boys, because my equipment is different, but I can go into gory detail about what it’s like for girls <\/span>( under the cut<\/a> )<\/b><\/p>\n

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Some of the swabs might get parcelled up to be sent away; some of them might be tested right there and then. I suspect this depends entirely on the facility you get tested at. In terms of my tests today three were done while-u-wait and the rest I have to phone up for in a couple of weeks.<\/p>\n

And that’s it. I’m not going to try and claim that it’s fun, but it’s not that bad, and it’s necessary.<\/p>\n

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*Still mysterious, but the surgical adhesion theory seems to hold water because the pain is mostly gone since I lost over a quarter of my body mass…
**Other high risk groups include men who have had sex with other men and anyone who has had sex with filthy foriegners, as well as the ones everybody thinks of like sex workers.
***YAY for knowing everybody who has drunk in a pub in the lower valley the last 15 years
****seriously, one of my funding priorities for the NHS would be astroglide<\/a>. Even if most people don’t bother going for sexual health screening, half the population has to have smear tests on a regular basis…
*****thrush is not actually an STI per se; although it can be sexually transmitted, most of the time it just develops all by its own sweet self. But when you go for sexual health screening makes sense for them to check for that while they’re down there.<\/small><\/p>\n

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