Not HIV, but I've been tested for other STD's at pelvic exams because it was required.
Where you ever tested for HIV/STDS/AIDS?
07/17/2011
Unless I request the doc not to my gynecologist tests for everything at my annual well woman/pap smear appointment. It's her office policy. Also, I regularly give blood.
07/17/2011
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Yes with insurance apps.
Originally posted by
SapphirexIce
This is just a general question to see how many people actually get tested.
07/17/2011
nope.
07/18/2011
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I was tested with my pregnancies. They automatically do one when you are pregnant in Canada. Not really any choice about it.
Originally posted by
SapphirexIce
This is just a general question to see how many people actually get tested.
07/19/2011
You get tested when you are pregnant!
07/22/2011
I get tested whenever I see my ob/gyn just because. I'd rather know than not know.
08/18/2011
Every annual exam I do. My doctor always recommends it and I agree. I trust my man and he was never with anyone else before me but still you never know.
08/18/2011
Nope, I've never been tested.
08/18/2011
I do all the time. I love knowing my status, although I don't really have to worry about it, because me and my boyfriend have been with only eachother for the past 7 years. You still never know. lol I normally get tested every 6 months and pregnancy testing every 3 months when I go get a refill on my birthcontrol.
08/18/2011
I've been test more than once, the first time being when I was 16, and I found out my boyfriend cheated on me.
08/18/2011
I always get tested every couple months
08/18/2011
Every 3 months. My ex, he had been tested once right before we committed, and then never again. I constantly gave him hell for that. Now, he is out with other girls, and still has not been tested since I threw him out - what a cad.
My grandmother got Hep C from a blood transfusion, and I've known a lot of blood to be spilled in bar fights (which is why I kept trying to send my ex to the clinic) so as far as I see it it's just something to check for. No reason not to!
My grandmother got Hep C from a blood transfusion, and I've known a lot of blood to be spilled in bar fights (which is why I kept trying to send my ex to the clinic) so as far as I see it it's just something to check for. No reason not to!
08/18/2011
I've had tests done at various times. When I had my son they couldn't find my HIV test. They came into the room and said that they had to do a test right then and there, I couldn't deliver without one. (Because the baby will wait??) Ugh. Maybe I should have refused in the hopes that they never gave me Pitocin.
08/20/2011
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Kim, they had NO right to do that. The hospital cannot force you to have an HIV test for any reason. Some forms of HIV testing actually has a high rate of FALSE positives due to pregnancy hormones! Actually, pregnancy is the worst time to get tested for HIV.
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Kim!
I've had tests done at various times. When I had my son they couldn't find my HIV test. They came into the room and said that they had to do a test right then and there, I couldn't deliver without one. (Because the baby will wait??) Ugh.
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I've had tests done at various times. When I had my son they couldn't find my HIV test. They came into the room and said that they had to do a test right then and there, I couldn't deliver without one. (Because the baby will wait??) Ugh. Maybe I should have refused in the hopes that they never gave me Pitocin.
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You had every right to refuse the test. They bullied you and I would have raised a stink.
The law cannot even test RAPE SUSPECTS without their consent. They certainly can't test pregnant women. Being a Infant/Maternal nurse I have seen doctors and even nurses try to trick people into testing (so they don't have to use Universal Precautions themselves) and it is illegal and not to mention unethical.
I refused ALL HIV testing during my pregnancies. I was not going to risk them trying to take my kid, or attempt to prevent me from breastfeeding because of a false positive test. I simply said, "No, I refuse this test." That was it.
08/20/2011
Yes i always get tested
08/28/2011
Yes i have ..Last Thursday actually i got my regualar STD and HIV testing
08/28/2011
I'm not sexually active or a drug user so I have yet to have one. But when I do begin having sex I'll check every time I get a new partner.
09/30/2011
I end up in the hospital way too often from mysterious causes, they tend to test me for everything under the sun, so I know I'm clean of every STD known to man. Plus, it wasn't lupus.
10/13/2011
I get tested for everything between partners. It's just a good idea.
10/13/2011
Few times. Used to once every yr but since I got married once
11/25/2011
I have never been tested.
11/25/2011
You forgot other. Never have, don't need/want to. My boyfriend and I have been together since we were fourteen. He'd never so much as kissed anyone before me.
12/07/2011
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I feel like it's something I should get in the habit of, you know? especially if playtime with others is a possibility for my future.
Originally posted by
SapphirexIce
This is just a general question to see how many people actually get tested.
12/14/2011
I got tested before I went on Depo more than 8 years ago but just last week I was tested again because I'm changing BC and I found out I had a STD (curable, thankfully)
I've only ever had 1 partner and we've been together seriously for those 8 years and he's never cheated on me, I didn't think to ask him if he'd been tested in the very beginning (I guess I just assumed he had) and I got it from him because while I was on the Depo we didn't always use condoms. So it's hid in our systems without any symptoms for nearly a decade.
Everyone should get tested no matter what your situation.
I've only ever had 1 partner and we've been together seriously for those 8 years and he's never cheated on me, I didn't think to ask him if he'd been tested in the very beginning (I guess I just assumed he had) and I got it from him because while I was on the Depo we didn't always use condoms. So it's hid in our systems without any symptoms for nearly a decade.
Everyone should get tested no matter what your situation.
12/15/2011
I go to the docter once a year and get a full checkup that includes testing for std's
12/15/2011
I haven't.
12/15/2011
its always good to get tested regularly!
12/17/2011
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I probably should
Originally posted by
SapphirexIce
This is just a general question to see how many people actually get tested.
12/21/2011
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Testing should be free for everyone, and then everyone would get tested. Even planned parenthood charges around $60 just for the office visit in my area.
Originally posted by
SapphirexIce
This is just a general question to see how many people actually get tested.
02/15/2012