where does one go to "get tested"

If your looking for suggestions Nesh has piles (er of them )

 

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If you've no insurance be sure to go anonymous. If you're positive without insurance it's a "pre-existing" condition and you'll never get coverage.

 

Sorry if I offended. A hell of a lot of americans don't.

 

Sage 000: The man with the purple car

You can "get tested" alright by a random hoe in some dirty back alley of your city, it will cost you around 20 bucks.

I expect you to be nerd and virgin positive, though. Sorry.

By the way, Sage lives! He lives! ...Well, he doesn't seem to live so much according to him:
"Not that I'm too concerned about anything, I just really feel that it's something that should be done in case I might be presented with an opportunity to be with someone."

 

Still you should go anonymous

If you have a more than 60 day break in coverage you are in the same boat. And that is quite likely at some point in your life. It is one of the groovy things.

Usually good insurance will still cover preexisting conditions, but often you have to wait like 6months or something.

 

You guys pay in the US to "get tested"?! Wow... The land of the free!

Here you get 15-min HIV test (meaning you get the result in 15 minutes, not a very depressing week like in some places) and ALL other STD tests, from Hep A to C and all other infections, absolutely for free. As it should be really...

 

If you're a student, most colleges here will test you for free, or for only a few bucks. They also usually give out free condoms.

 

Good move and good thought, I commend you on it.

 

Always remember that if you do get infected with HIV, there is a 3 month incubation period where the test might not pick it up. 6 months is the maximum, most times it's much less. They tend to say it's 3 months.

So if you had unprotected sex less than 3 months ago, and your test comes up negative, it doesn't mean you're actually negative. You probably are, but it's not 100% sure.

You should always leave 3 months between the time you think you might have been infected and the test, just to be 100% sure.

And i think you will want to be 100% sure if you care about this new person. At least don't have unprotected sex for at least 3 months (or 3 months after the last one), get tested again, and then go from there.

Lots of people get and pass on HIV because their test comes up negative, just because they are in their 3 months where the test doesn't pick it up.


And i won't get into the discussion where i tell you you're a very, very irresponsible man, by having had sex with what you say are "several people", without even knowing your HIV status, or your HepC status, or all other diseases you could have at the moment... Sure it takes two, and the people you had sex with should have known better, but you should be responsible enough to know that when you don't know what your status is, you just do not have unprotected sex, not only to protect yourself, but to protect others. For all you know, you could have become infected the first time you had unprotected sex, and passed it on to all other people you had unprotected sex with. Think about it next time. "Not knowing" doesn't make you negative.
The world has enough HIV as it is, i'm amazed that in 2006 there are still people like you who "take risks" but really, take risks with their and other people's lives, just for an hour or so of fun.
An orgasm is not worth your or other people's lives.


OK i did get into that discussion a little bit, but hey, someone's got to do it.

 

First of all, i was never rude to you, so i don't know why you should tell me to "shut my hole". I made my points, and i'm sorry to say that my points are more than valid, whatever your "problems" are.
Besides, what do the people I'VE had sex with have to do with this? I don't have unprotected sex with people, unless i'm in a serious relationship and only after both have been tested.

Uhm... They are certainly a lot more effective than not using them at all.

Yes, and for all you know, one could have had HIV, one could have had Hep-C, one could have had Syphilis and so on and so forth.

Is that going to be an excuse if, hopefully not, all the people got infected with one or more viri which, at the end of the day, can kill you and them.

Good.


If i somehow offended you in any way (not sure why), then sorry. But my points were more than absolutely valid. The fact that you "had issues" which explain why you had unprotected sex, doesn't change the fact that you have put yourself and those other people at very high risk.

 

Now, ladies. . . we were having a perfectly enjoyable thread about Sage and STDs. It even included the opportunity to get the occassional bash at the American health system in, thus providing a little something for everyone. Let's not make it ugly!

 

Well, someone had to say something about the whole thing and play the part of the one who tells him to be careful cause we live in a bad bad world, and i was as pleasant about it as i could be. If he took it the wrong way, then maybe he'll be more careful in the future and i accomplished my mission.

 

Isn't this one of the eternal questions right up there with the immovable object and the irresistable force? "In an internet flamewar, who wins --the drama queen or the martyr?"

 

Who came first, the drama or the queen?