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ambitious_wenchinSPOT ·> Tell Them:
Now that Valentine's day is gone for another year, I thought it appropriate to share this rather interesting website with my readers. I'd like to know what you think of it.
When I was married to my first husband, and while I was about 5 months along in my pregnancy, I went to take care of my mother and grandmother. During that time I went into premature labor. A blood test showed that I had contracted gonorrhea.
I was devastated. I *KNEW* that I had not had any sex partners other than my husband. I had been tested for STDs for my marriage certificate. I assumed that my husband had given it to me. He denied it.
I reported my sex partners to the hospital, and chuck was contacted. He went for a test at the Navy hospital where I was stationed. Our family practitioner eventually told me that chuck had come up negative.
My mother told me (she was a lab technician) that staphylococcus was often misidentified as gonorrhea, and that I probably didn't have it. In any case, the shot of antibiotics would cure it, whether staph or the clap.
To this day I don't know if I had an STD or not. I suspect I did, and that my first husband had already had it treated by the time it was found in me. Frankly, it was enough to scare the be-jeebers out of me, and to this day I insist on safer sex.
Now that Valentine's day is gone for another year, I thought it appropriate to share this rather interesting website with my readers. I'd like to know what you think of it.
When I was married to my first husband, and while I was about 5 months along in my pregnancy, I went to take care of my mother and grandmother. During that time I went into premature labor. A blood test showed that I had contracted gonorrhea.
I was devastated. I *KNEW* that I had not had any sex partners other than my husband. I had been tested for STDs for my marriage certificate. I assumed that my husband had given it to me. He denied it.
I reported my sex partners to the hospital, and chuck was contacted. He went for a test at the Navy hospital where I was stationed. Our family practitioner eventually told me that chuck had come up negative.
My mother told me (she was a lab technician) that staphylococcus was often misidentified as gonorrhea, and that I probably didn't have it. In any case, the shot of antibiotics would cure it, whether staph or the clap.
To this day I don't know if I had an STD or not. I suspect I did, and that my first husband had already had it treated by the time it was found in me. Frankly, it was enough to scare the be-jeebers out of me, and to this day I insist on safer sex.
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Interesting - why so much ignorance?
Date: 2005-02-16 04:17 pm (UTC)Was that STD part of the screening for your marriage license? I thought it was mostly for Syphillis.
I started testing positive (first round) for Syphillis a few years ago and had an idea of who I might have gotten it from - and was scared I'd passed it around.
Planned Parenthood did the second test and it came up negative.
This happened to me several times over the next few years, and no one could tell me why. Had I been exposed? Was I going to get sick? Was I over it without knowing it (having taken antibiotics for bad bronchitis, etc), what? No one could tell me until I was finally pregnant and had a doctor who would listen to me and talk to me. (I tripped the first one because of an undiagnosed and un-treated auto-immune disorder - never had the STD)
Thank the gods for the internet, now we can do more research, we can find out, we can be informed consumers: What was the test result, what does it mean, can you write it down for me I want to look it up.