G/friend suggests getting tested for STI's ??

[Andy46]

Hi

My new g/friend has suggested we get tested for STI's before sleeping together. I really don't have much sexual experience although i'll admit to having a couple of one night stands in the last 12 months, one with no condom ...... and yeah, i know it was a stupid thing to do and have been paranoid ever since. Infact getting tested worries me a little in case of the worst case scenario.

Can i just goto a local GUM clinic and ask for a test or what ??

Thanks
Andy

[Mr B]

Phone up first, just in case you need an appointment.

[alh]

u'll need 2 make an appointment 2 b tested. its a good idea coz men dont get as much symptoms as girls so u could have something n not know better safe than sorry eh?

[brunettebimbo]

Hi

My new g/friend has suggested we get tested for STI's before sleeping together. I really don't have much sexual experience although i'll admit to having a couple of one night stands in the last 12 months, one with no condom ...... and yeah, i know it was a stupid thing to do and have been paranoid ever since. Infact getting tested worries me a little in case of the worst case scenario.

Can i just goto a local GUM clinic and ask for a test or what ??

Thanks
Andy

Me and my boyfriend both did this when we got together, it is definately a good idea.

It means sex can be more fun because you haven't got the added worry! just make sure your girlfriend is on contraception so she doesn't get pregnant!

I would ring your local GUM first and make an appointment....

[noodles]

Hi

My new g/friend has suggested we get tested for STI's before sleeping together. I really don't have much sexual experience although i'll admit to having a couple of one night stands in the last 12 months, one with no condom ...... and yeah, i know it was a stupid thing to do and have been paranoid ever since. Infact getting tested worries me a little in case of the worst case scenario.

Can i just goto a local GUM clinic and ask for a test or what ??

Thanks
Andy

Your gf's a bright girl. If more people took it this seriously std's especially hiv wouldnt be spreading at the rate it is.

[Cambridge]

One thing I will tell you as a lawyer. Ask your doctor to have you tested under a code name. All of your records (in your name) will become known to insurance companies. If they think you have an instinct to be tested for STDs, particularly AIDs, they will target you as a high-risk insured, and your medical insurance rates will skyrocket.

Not a prob if you are UK. But a biggie if you are US. Just a tip.

[brunettebimbo]

One thing I will tell you as a lawyer. Ask your doctor to have you tested under a code name. All of your records (in your name) will become known to insurance companies. If they think you have an instinct to be tested for STDs, particularly AIDs, they will target you as a high-risk insured, and your medical insurance rates will skyrocket.

Not a prob if you are UK. But a biggie if you are US. Just a tip.

Surely thats breaking data protection act!?!?!?!

What a load of nonsense! Surely this guy should be praised for actually caring to find out whether he has anything?

[Cambridge]

One thing I will tell you as a lawyer. Ask your doctor to have you tested under a code name. All of your records (in your name) will become known to insurance companies. If they think you have an instinct to be tested for STDs, particularly AIDs, they will target you as a high-risk insured, and your medical insurance rates will skyrocket.

Not a prob if you are UK. But a biggie if you are US. Just a tip.

Surely thats breaking data protection act!?!?!?!

What a load of nonsense! Surely this guy should be praised for actually caring to find out whether he has anything?

Nup. In fact, I am an insurance defense lawyer and I know very well what resources are available to me. The insurance industry is bigger than any one government and they know how to dodge any law, anywhere.

I gather you are suggesting you are a lawyer. What is the “data protection act?” Is it state law or federal law. I know of no act by that name. Please provide the proper name of the law you are referencing, and if you know it, the code reference, and we can have a discussion about it.

There is a huge database in the Midwestern US that has everyone’s medical file that has ever been obtained legally by any or every of your many insurance companies. It is shared, just like your DMV record, how many DUIs you have had, or whether or not you are a sex crime offender. These are trying times.

[Verve]

Shes a smart cookie...that ones a keeper!

[Cambridge]

I'm sure she is. I wouldn't be asking, otherwise. But I stand by my post. If you haven't caught the spirit of the Patriot Act, then woe be to you. Privacy in America is dead...dead...dead. If you didn't catch the FISA vote, cast by the traitor Barack Obama, maybe you want to ask your insurance agent about your DMV records, your DUI records, your criminal records...or, your medical records. They're all available. And denial is a river in East Africa. It won't help.

[Mr B]

One thing I will tell you as a lawyer. Ask your doctor to have you tested under a code name. All of your records (in your name) will become known to insurance companies. If they think you have an instinct to be tested for STDs, particularly AIDs, they will target you as a high-risk insured, and your medical insurance rates will skyrocket.

Not a prob if you are UK. But a biggie if you are US. Just a tip.

Surely thats breaking data protection act!?!?!?!

What a load of nonsense! Surely this guy should be praised for actually caring to find out whether he has anything?

Thats correct however Cambridge did say you're ok in the UK. The Data Protection Act means insurance companies wouldn't even get a sniff of any HIV tests you've had.

[brunettebimbo]

One thing I will tell you as a lawyer. Ask your doctor to have you tested under a code name. All of your records (in your name) will become known to insurance companies. If they think you have an instinct to be tested for STDs, particularly AIDs, they will target you as a high-risk insured, and your medical insurance rates will skyrocket.

Not a prob if you are UK. But a biggie if you are US. Just a tip.

Surely thats breaking data protection act!?!?!?!

What a load of nonsense! Surely this guy should be praised for actually caring to find out whether he has anything?

Nup. In fact, I am an insurance defense lawyer and I know very well what resources are available to me. The insurance industry is bigger than any one government and they know how to dodge any law, anywhere.

I gather you are suggesting you are a lawyer. What is the “data protection act?” Is it state law or federal law. I know of no act by that name. Please provide the proper name of the law you are referencing, and if you know it, the code reference, and we can have a discussion about it.

There is a huge database in the Midwestern US that has everyone’s medical file that has ever been obtained legally by any or every of your many insurance companies. It is shared, just like your DMV record, how many DUIs you have had, or whether or not you are a sex crime offender. These are trying times.

As i am not a lawyer myself but work for a hospital I know about and how to use the data protection act.

http://www.opsi.gov.uk/Acts/Acts1998/ukpga_19980029_en_1

I think that is the right link.

I for one will never be moving to America if you are allowed no privacy at all!

[Cambridge]

Ok, good job. But you’re talking about UK law. I'd love to say, Oh yeah, I knew all about that. But it's much simpler that that. It’s not even an issue in the UK, not because of any data protection act, but because you have no medical insurance premiums to worry about. You have NHS. That was my original point, if you check.

I would love to go off on America today, but why waste the space here. You can find my posts, in total agreement with you, on other topics. The US is rapidly going the way of the Roman City State—too impressed with itself and too willing to relegate reason and rights to an inferior position to power and killing.

The recent vote on the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) was to give indemnity to criminal telephone companies, which had conspired with the GWB administration to violate every known privacy right by handing over to the government every known piece of datum about your communications.

And you are in it up to your neck, UK citizen or not, because it involves every piece of communication that entered US facilities for any reason…did you know that most calls London makes to Sheffield go through a switch in Boston, calls the UK makes to Spain go thru switches located in New Jersey, most calls from France to South Africa through Atlanta, GA? That is because the greatest number of switches in the world are here in the US, and worldwide calls are routed by computer to go to the machinery with the least traffic congestion...um, that would be the US.

Does that piss you off? Tell your lap-dog government to tell GWB that you're "madder than Hell and not gonna take it any more." That and five-bucks will get you a latte at Starbucks.

And of course you’re talking to me here in San Francisco, so everything you say on FF is being monitored. One of the greatest switches for the kiwis, the ozzies, China, Asia and the Philippines, is in a brick building on Lombard Street here in San Francisco. It the focal point for the largest lawsuit in the US, which our friendly traitor Barack Obama voted to give immunity to (AT&T) in his latest vote on FISA.

Well, we started talking about medical records and now we're talking about telecommunications traffic. I hear you. But, ask yourself, have yours or anyone's medical records ever gone over the Internet? Any doctor discussed a patient with another doctor over the telephone? Working in a hospital, you tell us.

Well, I went off anyway. F***!

[brunettebimbo]

I work in Human Resources so I don't deal with patients, I deal with all the employees, it is difficult to work with sometimes.

For example if someone rings asking if an employee still works there we can't tell them either way, for all we know it could be a pshycho ex!

There are loads of exmples but we try our best to stick to the Act even if I called loads of names because I'm strict on it and people think i'm just being akward!

[Cambridge]

I work in Human Resources so I don't deal with patients, I deal with all the employees, it is difficult to work with sometimes.

For example if someone rings asking if an employee still works there we can't tell them either way, for all we know it could be a pshycho ex!

There are loads of exmples but we try our best to stick to the Act even if I called loads of names because I'm strict on it and people think i'm just being akward!

Well stated, Brunette. But I stick by my post. Same scenario, except the psycho ex is George W. Bush. I am here to inform, not to argue.