Have YOU or anyone you know, ever had an STI?

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Monkeytrousers - there shouldn't be!

But doesn't this thread demonstrate exactly the kind of eye-rolling atwitter gossipiness that makes for stigma?

Makes me quite cross really. I would like people to be completely bluntly matter of fact about these things - like the person below who said "it's just luck". (As, indeed, nice sensible nurses in the relevant outpatient clinics tend to be.)

Well, I should say - not the thread, as there've been some sensible posts.

The OP, is what I meant.

One more here prepared to stand up and be counted - I must have contracted chlamidia when in my late teens (talking 20 years ago, who had heard of Chlamidia then??) and it was never picked up. Have been with DH for over 15 years, completely faithful on both sides, but I am absolutely infertile due to this previous infection. After an op to investigate my infertility the surgeon said cheerfully that it was a classic case of what untreated chlamidia could do to fallopian tubes.

Am very grateful IVF exists, trust me.

Yes

Chlamydia, not sure how long I had it for, but it was the cause of my ectopic pregnancy. I also have numerous friends who have had an STI, chlamydia is very common these days. Our local family planning clinic gives out free chlamydia test kits

Should say I lost my left tube to it, but am very lucky to still have had 2DCs afterwards

yep i have had an sti too

not bothered about what that brands me as though, if anything

It is a bit sad, but people do like to know others weaknesses - just in case they need to get one over them.

Itwasntme, is herpes actually classed as an STI? I thought it was incredibly common, if not always genital of course. DP gets coldsores on his lip when he's ill - always has. DS has had one too.

How has it affected you?

What a horridly worded OP. What is this intended to achieve, Cod, and what point are you trying to make about you and your circle?

I had chlamydia when I was 17.

genital herpes is i believe, but thats not what i had so i cant be 100%

It is a bit gleeful and hand rubby Cod. Made me wince. This is a very delicate area

Is this for one of your sex ed type classes cod, if it is just shout

PUT A FECKING CONDOM ON

I thought it just made you look naive

'not a soul'

yeah because they would all be telling you

Yes, 16 years ago, I had only slept with 3 people it took months to go. Just me and the local prossies in the clinic. I got checked out fairly recently and the clinics are now full of really hot blokes and striking eastern european women. How times change. The nurse told me that he has lots of young girls come in and when he has to tell them they are HIV+ they think it is just a case of a few antibiotics

Well, I know quite a few people who have had colposcopies and LLETZ treatment due to abnormal smears, and therefore I know quite a few people with an STI. I know even more people who had CIN 1 which cleared up by itself - doesn't stop it being most likely caused by HPV, as CIN indicates classic cell changes caused by HPV.

Funnily enough, I haven't known people be as free with their confessions about other STIs, so don't know anyone who's had any other infections... with the exception of one person that I know who did confess to having had gonorrhoea in her throat... I'm not sure enough people know you can actually get and pass on infections that way (even HPV, which has been linked to throat cancer...).

I have never had an sti thank goodness. It makes me sad to think of the damage the 'silent' ones do before people realise they are infected.

Even more sadly, the only people I know who have had stis are children (ie through work) not my adult friends.

I do wish more of sex-ed concentrated on barrier protection, and that more parents would actually talk to, and provide their children with condoms. It's all very well taking 'Shannon' down to the GP and getting her put on the pill, but if her slimeball bf has already slept with 5 or 6 other girls (without barrier protection) it ISN'T going to help her much.

I mean emotionally not physically Itwasntme - and those of you who have had others. Did they stop you having other relationships?

I did briefly look at a study once that seemed to prove that STI's increase sex drive. The parasite affecting the host to propegate the virus/bacteria/infection. Fascinating.

Condoms don;t protect against some STI's. Ones that are passed on via oral sex for example - like gonorrhoea or HPV above or herpes. Most people are infected wioth herpes and are symtomless by 'carriers'. It's the people with no immunity or exposure in early life that it gets.

more provincial matron than naive, franny, I think?

Sorry, that's 50% infection rate by age 30

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I reckon people don't tell their mates unless it involves a bloke cheating on them and giving them something etc

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men are def more honest with each other about it ime