AIBU to be annoyed that the NHS keep hassling me about STI testing

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I got a letter today from the NHS about chlamydia just because I'm under 24. Especially annoying as I was only tested in December (required before a coil was fitted, not because I engage in risky behaviour) and found to not have it. Every time I go to the doctors I'm asked whether I've been screened for STIs recently. One doctor, even when I told her that I had a long-term partner that I trusted, still insisted that I should have an STI test and the appointment was about my long term joint pain not anything that could be caused by STIs.

AIBU to feel a little offended that because of my age, it is assumed that I have STIs or that DP is cheating me? I really don't think I'd be getting asked if I was older or married.

Oops - yes, congratulations! (should have said).

Elliedodger, I'd be careful about getting an AIDS test done under your own name if you ever want to take out life insurance. As far as I've heard life insurers ask if you have ever had a test and regardless of the result, make the assumption that if you have ever been tested you are in a 'high risk' category and up your premiums or refuse to insure you.

Foreverastudent - I remember hearing about that years ago when we did sex ed at school but I thought it had been scrapped in recent years due to discrimination legislation or something along those lines. I will look into it though, thanks.

As I mentioned in my earlier post, there's no reason for me to have the test, it was more the nurse making me feel guilty for refusing the test, even though she'd asked me some incredibly probing questions which I'd given very tame responses to and shown that I was of negligible risk.

foreverastudent - I think that no longer applies re insurance, also HIV testing is offered routinely as part of antenatal blood tests and women aren't discriminated against on that basis.

When I last applied for life insurance and critical illness cover I was just asked if I had ever tested positive for HIV, not whether I'd had a test done at all.

It doesn't apply, I was tested as part of a screen after an assault and asked that question.

I had a GP who I had to refuse to see in the end. I went in during pregnancy with what I now know to be PGP pain. She decided it had to be chlamydia. She tested me, negative - nah, something wasn't right with the test! Tested me twice more before she got a positive. Then I had a swab and negative. I had the horror of having to tell exes! There were three potentials one (who would have got it from me if he did, but then he was the first potential) has regular screens for everything because of the medication he's on, second tested negative, third had only ever had unprotected sex with his XW (her first partner) before me. When challenged I was told "but it doesn't pass as easily from a woman to a man as it does from a man to a woman" I was too to actually realise that whilst that would explain it being the fourth man, there wasn't anyone who could have given it me! (Like I said, I had had a full screen because of an assault. I think she saw that my final HIV results had come in and made assumptions about why I had been tested)