STD testing!

by kerj2leev 21 Replies latest jw friends

  • ex-nj-jw
    ex-nj-jw

    Justhuman,

    I've been a nurse for almost as long as you have been alive, (if that is really your age). And you are right about skin to skin contact, but that's for herpes. Gon. and Chly are transmitted by body fluid to open/mucus membranes as well as syphillis, HIV, HPV. And the test that he had done is for routine screening, you don't necessarily have to wait to have symptoms unlike herpes.

    We really need to be careful giving medical opinions when we don't know all the facts. When in doubt always ask your physician.

    nj

  • Justahuman24
    Justahuman24

    ex-nj-jw, you're right. Whatever I wanted to say didn't come out the way it was supposed to: about skin-to-skin contact. You're right about that. however, about the other thing: waiting to have symptoms. Well, according to what my doctor told me, usually they only do those tests if you have had a "great risk" like unprotected sex. But other than that, they usually don't do them unless the patient wants to have it done since he's paying for it lol... justahuman - but super nonetheless

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