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[gement]

I have a doctor's appointment in an hour and didn't do my homework. First person who gives me a full list of STDs that I should be tested for gets a cookie.

I said full testing and she did HIV/Gonorrhea/Chlamydia and that's IT. I was so dumbfounded that I forgot to dig out my list from last time I did this. Help?

Edit: Cookies to be awarded after I survive my appointment! Thanks!

Comments

[scaryblackdeath.livejournal.com]

Herpes, syphillis, genital warts. Can't think of any more besides those you listed, though I'm sure there are some obscure ones.

[corivax.livejournal.com]

HPV?

[randomdreams.livejournal.com]

It's my understanding, from talking to the nice lady at PP when I last went in and requested this, that there isn't a good test for this, that the only ways of testing are visual and cervical smear indicating neoplastic cells. I'd be interested in finding out differently, although she had a BS in microbiology.

[corivax.livejournal.com]

There's a test for the most dangerous strains, called the Hybrid Capture II HPV DNA test. I think it can only be done on women, though, and is rather new and sometimes hard to get. The FDA has approved it for women over 30; if you're under 30 you have to explicitly ask for it, and may have to talk your doctor into it.

I don't know that much about it; someone on livejournal posted a link a couple of months ago. So take with a shaker of salt.

[airlinepilot.livejournal.com]

You'll have to get a Western Blot Herpes test kit from the UW. The standard STD test doesn't catch Herpes. :(

University of Washington
Dep. of Lab Medicine
Community Services Office
800-713-5198

[pomma-penses.livejournal.com]

Er. Although I freaked out once and got myself tested for syphillys, it has very obvious first-stage symptoms and doesn't usually warrant a test.

[(Anonymous)]

Hep B and C, lice...

[memegarden.livejournal.com]

Many doctors recommend against testing for herpes since the virus is *extremely* common and often doesn't result in any symptoms....I guess one has to balance that against the cases in which it results in really bad symptoms.

[ashley-y.livejournal.com]

I went to PP and they charged me $200 extra for the Herpes tests. They told me they don't normally bother when there aren't symptoms. Apart from that I got the same tests you had plus Hepatitis of some kinds. No HPV test for guys. (And I was negative on everything.)