It's not just the Chlamydia test, I get myself tested when I feel the need, if I've been with a new partner, or every 12/18 months otherwise, I'm responsible about my sexual health. I wouldn't mind if they asked me these questions when I was going in for a pill check up but it's every single time I go to the doctors. I went to find out more about physio in Gloucs and they brought up my sexual health. It was irrelevant to my visit and shocked me, I felt really uncomfortable speaking about it without warning, iyswim? I have my doctors in Essex to talk to that about sort of stuff, doctors I know and feel comfortable with.
proverbial, I'm more than capable of looking after my own sexual health, and it's in my medical records that I've been tested for various bits and pieces within the last year so they have no need to ask when they read these records, in front of me, before speaking to me in the examination room. That's just a slight annoyance though; what really pisses me off is the disbelieve that as a young adult I can stay faithful to one person. As I said earlier, most of the doctors I've encountered ask me to take another test, after I tell them that I've stayed with the same partner I had before my last. It's embarassing to have people insinuate that me and my partner can't be together without cheating on one another when we are perfectly capable of doing that just like every other couple.
Also, people like the receptionist, who ask if you, and only you as you're the only young person there, if you would like a free chlamydia test as you walk out of the door. It is incredibly patronising and really horrible, how would you feel if someone did this to you as you walk out of a doctors, in front of other patients?
I'm all for the scheme, the post thing is more of a novelty thing, it's funny and a confidential way to get tested; but I'm not happy to get the Spanish Inquisition each time I go to the docs, with the muttered, disbelieving "uh huh... " every time I say that I try to explain that I haven't had sex for months, along with the complete disregard of my medical history, including sexual medical history, sitting right in front of them.