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Those of us who prefer bareback adventures with the young ladies of questionable virtue who we encounter from time to time, should be aware that the U.S. saw a record number of cases of STD's in 2017. This was the 4th year of sharp increases in gonorrhea, syphilis, & chlamydia as reported by the CDC.
This is exacerbated by the fact that gonorrhea could soon become resistant to antibiotic treatment. This was reported by Bloomberg News.
Will these facts change the behavior or practices of any readers here?
This is exacerbated by the fact that gonorrhea could soon become resistant to antibiotic treatment. This was reported by Bloomberg News.
Will these facts change the behavior or practices of any readers here?
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Those stats are concerning. I’d wonder if they have age groupings to depict where the highest increases have occurred.
When I was younger - in the mid 1980’s - there was significant concern over AIDS and HIV - and awareness was prevalent.
Both herpes and gonnorrhea should be major concerns of folks not using protection. As should be many other STD’s. Maybe folks have become complacent when fucking around? That’s a bad thing, as there are significant risks - and disease can spread too.
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At least all three are easy to treat with antibiotics. Gonorrhea and chlamydia usually have no symptoms, so you have to get tested.
I deal with this by having just one or two (unprotected) partners per year and getting tested several times a year. StdTestExpress went out of business, but StdCheck seems like a good alternative. I tried StdCheck just this week and it's very easy to get in for testing.
"Both herpes and gonnorrhea should be major concerns of folks not using protection. "
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Condoms don't provide much protection against herpes. For those of you who have multiple partners each month, you'll probably pick up herpes II eventually.
Those STD’s - that aren’t fully prevented by condoms - are the ones that concern me the most. That’s scary shit!
Price was $188 for full panel testing, including HSV I & II igG antibody test (which is sometimes not included with others). Went online yesterday and went into Quest Diagnostics without an appointment and within an hour. So no waiting at all. No ID is required. All the results came back in less than 24 hrs. All clean, yay! The results trickle in incrementally: if the HIV results come in 5 hrs before the others, it's displayed online 5 hrs before the others.. Website was flawless.
Better than Planned Parenthood, because there's no waiting and everything can be displayed on your phone to share results. Planned Parenthood is pretty archaic. Worse than StdExpress in that they will not bill your insurance. But StdExpress went out of business and, as far as I know, there is no commercial testing site now that will bill your insurance
Confused. If one uses Quest then it's $188 - i.e. insurance does not cover the cost of the testing?
You cheap ass motherfucker! When I'm RILing on a bitch, I'm all about healthlabs.com because the results come quickly. Broke inwards can stand in line.
Papi, It would depend on the Insurance plan. I am willing to beat they only pay for one a year. And to be honest that would mean a year and a day. Now here is the funny thing, paying a LAB cash maybe cheaper because they don't have ti file and re-file with insurance. I remember paying cash for a full blood work up and it costing less than $100.00. If I had gone to a Doc paid them almost $300.00, then order a LAB the lab would have billed at least another $200.00. after that Insurance would have picked up what they decided it should cost and with the practice fee schedule was.
There is the Sandy Springs,GA Method. You use your hand and keep that stripper 1 foot away.
Name of the retirement community or it didn't happen
Many experts claim that consumers being unable to deal directly w/ providers and having to go thru insurance companies is a major reason why health-costs are so high.
They point to the examples of cosmetic-surgery and Lasik-surgery that are not covered by insurance and consumers deal directly w/ providers and shop-around; and how this had led to prices dramatically going down over time vs continuously going up.
This is exactly what I would have expected a far-right inward lover to post on here