hi everyone. ive been to several different walk in clinics and they do not offer STD panels. looked online and cant find any testing facilities. can anyone please help me? i live in brampton, but can drive anywhere. thank you so much!!
Does anyone know where to get STD test?
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Hassle Free Clinic is free.
www.hasslefreeclinic.org
or pay $49 to avoid waiting 1-3 hours in line and 1 week for results. Teletest, you pay $49 and you download an online forum from a doctor to bring to a lab near you, and you leave a urine sample, and you're done, results in 1 to 2 days.
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Hassle Free Clinic
www.hasslefreeclinic.org
or pay $49 to avoid waiting 1-3 hours in line and 1 week for results. Teletest, you pay $49 and you download an online forum from a doctor to bring to a lab near you, and you leave a urine sample, and you're done, results in 1 to 2 days.
Home - TeleTest.ca
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Safe Six Clinic has a few locations in Toronto.
If you have concerns that the results are shared with your GP, you can pay out of pocket for the examine and ask to pay for the action lab fees.
They have a clinic in Parkdale which may be best if you are driving in from Brampton.
Also, I believe York Region has a few walk in clinics; however, I can't speak to their services.
Good luck...
If you have concerns that the results are shared with your GP, you can pay out of pocket for the examine and ask to pay for the action lab fees.
They have a clinic in Parkdale which may be best if you are driving in from Brampton.
Also, I believe York Region has a few walk in clinics; however, I can't speak to their services.
Good luck...
That''s nonsense if they tell you that. Not that I doubt you, but I can't imagine a clinic not taking you in. Unless you are asking them if they do the testing on site, in the office. None do.
Any, and I mean any Physician can give you a lab request for tests for diseases, blood chemistry, hormones etc.
You then take that requisition to a lab like lifelabs.ca. Then they draw some blood, get you to pee in a little jar and they run the tests. (Make sure. you don't pee just before your visit to the lab so you have something in your bladder
Create an online account on lifelabs.ca and look for a local lab. Either make an appointment or check the wait times and go to the most convenient place. (I find the best time to go in is the early afternoon because mornings are busy with tests that require fasting. With an account, you can check your own test results online.
Here's my advice:
1. Get cleaned up, shaved, wear decent clothes before you go in. No offence intended as I don't know you but I know that Emergency Rooms and Walk-In clinics DO make an immediate judgement on how you are going to be treated. Be polite.
2. Go to ANY Walk-In clinic and ask to see a Doctor. When they ask what you are there for, tell them you would prefer to speak to the Doctor privately. If they insist, tell them you are not feeling well and want to discuss having some bloodwork done.
3. Wait patiently to see the Doctor as there are people ahead who have waited.
4. Tell the Doctor you don't have a family Doctor (if true) , or that you do have one but are not comfortable to ask for a full panel of STD tests, including HIV, Hepatitis A, B and C. Tell him if you have been vaccinated against Hepatitis and if so, tell him you want to make sure you do in fact have immunity.. Hep A can require a booster shot from time to time. Even Hep B can. Tell the Doctor in advance that you had a bit of a wild weekend a week ago had unprotected sex with two girls. And that you are worried about the possibility of giving your partner any infection.
5. Ask about Gardasil 9 HPV vaccine, and Shingrix if you can afford the vaccines or have insurance. And if you think you can't afford it, think twice. I know a 22 yo girl who died from cervical cancer from getting HPV during her FIRST time having sex...and we all know about Michael Douglas and other men who have developed throat cancer from eating ONE pussy that had HPV. And don;'t get me going on the agony of shingles. I have a female friend who is a very healthy 62 and she recently got a mild case of shingles and she is in a lot of pain. (She had the first shingle vaccine 12 years ago when she turned 50. While her Doc said it probably helped lessen the symptoms of the outbreak, she strongly advised her to get the Shingrix vax in 6 months and her husband get Shingrix asap. I knew a RICH 68 yo guy who took his own life after 6 months of a bad case of shingles.
6. If you feel the Doctor is receptive and accomodating tell the Doc that you have been feeling lethargic for about six months, nothing specific, but that you haven't had a physical or simple blood work done in years (if true or however long) and ask him if you should get full blood tests including A1C (long term blood glucose levels) , cardiac markers, whatever vitamins, especially Vitamin D because most Canadians are Vitamin D deficient. (you will have to pay $50 for the Vit D test if you don't qualify for free test) Tell Doc you want to start taking vitamins and want to be responsible/careful and want to know your baseline vitamins. Ask for an Iron Study to see if you are low on iron. Kidney and liver function. If you feel comfortable, ask the Doctor if you could book a full "Physical Exam" so you can get a good picture of your health. Doctors like doing Physicals as they get paid much more than the $20-$30 or so they get for a regular, one health issue, office visit.
The issue with a Doctor ordering blood tests is that the Doctor has to be willing and available to follow up with the results, before they can (ethically) order blood tests. But even Walk-In clinic Doctors care about people or they wouldn't have gone into medicine.
Also, I understand that Walk-In clinics that are co-located with Pharmacies are much more helpful as the clinic is driven by pharmacy sales.
Good luck.
I know you are trying to be helpful but he said he ives in Brampton and doesn't drive. There are lots of clinics in Brampton that he can use. Whatever reason he is having trrouble in Brampton would follow him to Sarnia. Somethign is not right about him being refused.
Also, the test results are posted to one of the the provinces eHealth systems accessed by any Doctor. The HIV and Hepatitis results are posted in the Public Health Ontario system. All systems are as confidential and secure as we could hope for. In any case, going undiagnosed is a real and present risk with real and immediate consequences. Breach of confidentiality is a remote and small risk.
All of which should be of NO CONCERN to anyone. Doctors are too busy to make personal judgements and are wayyyy too smart to tell your spouse or partner. They see so many people that they have trouble keeping track of YOU when you come in. No need to be embarrased, they have seen and heard about a lot more unusual stuff than you will present with.
Hassle Free clinic is the BIGGEST hassle around. They talk a good game, are free, but have very limited hours, have long wait times etc.Hassle Free Clinic is free.
Hassle Free Clinic
or pay $49 to avoid waiting 1-3 hours in line and 1 week for results. Teletest, you pay $49 and you download an online forum from a doctor to bring to a lab near you, and you leave a urine sample, and you're done, results in 1 to 2 days.
Home - TeleTest.ca
ANY walk -in clinic physician can provide a Lab requisition. Probably the online, virtual telephone Physician services like getmaple or teletest will also probably provide a lab requisition too.
And a full STD test should include blood testing. Urine testing is ok-ish for UTI borne infections but can miss many things. The q-tip up the dick is most conclusive if symptoms are present but urinalysis comes back negative
List of walk-in clinics
www.thevillagepharmacy.ca
HIV & STI Testing Toronto — The Village Pharmacy
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Some do
HIV & STI Testing Toronto — The Village Pharmacy
Find Rapid HIV Testing Clinics in Toronto | STI Testing Clinics in Toronto.
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Google Public Health in your city will bring up locations for STD/STI testing if you don't want to ask your family doctor (if you have one).
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IMO TeleTest is the real hassle free clinic. Yeah it costs extra but you get to consult the doctor and access your results online. If you could mail in your own blood and urine it would be even better!Hassle Free Clinic is free.
Hassle Free Clinic
or pay $49 to avoid waiting 1-3 hours in line and 1 week for results. Teletest, you pay $49 and you download an online forum from a doctor to bring to a lab near you, and you leave a urine sample, and you're done, results in 1 to 2 days.
Home - TeleTest.ca
Thought he said he can drive in his post.
Anyway, lots of options available. Get tested, get your results and take responsibility.
Thanks,
You are right. I re-read his post and he did say he could drive.
Rather than take down or ninja-edit my post, I want to apologize to you for my post.
UPDATE: thank you everyone!!! i was able to get tested finally. except NOBODY can do a throat swab for STDs for some reason. Any recommendations? thank you
Ask for the Lab Requisition and a sterile swab and do it yourself.
But I don't know why they wouldn't. I recently asked a walk in clinic Doc about one nostril that seemed to have a scab or booger of some sort that wouldn't heal and every time I picked it, it smelled bad. Just one side. He said it is common to get a nasal infection and whipped out a swab, gave it to me to really dig around myself so he wouldn't hurt me and sent it off. Sure enough, I checked my results on LIfeLabs website a few days later and there was a few types of gram negative bacteria that had taken up residence.
He gave me a prescription for a cream to start using during the initial visit that should clear up anything but MRSA. It cleared up within a few days, but I was told to keep using it for 14 days so the infection didn't become drug resistant.
Throat swabs for cultures such as strep or staph are routinely taken at every clinic I've known of.
Keep trying. And when the Doctor refuses, ask him specifically why not, and where he should go so as not to be a public health risk. If he says something like, he doesn;t thin it warrants the testing, say something like "Well Doctor, you are the licensed Physician whom I am relying on for medical advice, so if it is your considered medical opinion and medical advice to me to NOT get testing, then I will rely on your professional medical opinion"
Those magic words will get you a full body and PET brain scan if you want, purely out of the Doctor's self-protection and fear of liability.
One thing I've learned is NOT to be subservient to, or cower from the Doctor. Don't be a dick , but ASK WHY, and if you are not satisfied with the answer and still feel strongly about the issue, don't be afraid to politely push back.
thank you for your message. does the walk-in clinic do the swab and send it in themselves? my doctor just gave me the requisition and said go find somewhere to get the swab done. lifelabs doesnt do it, and everywhere i called doesnt do it either. ive been to like 5 different places
Unless you're deepthroating cock you don't need a throat swab. HSV/HPV/syphilis are transmitted via skin contact. The only realistic way for gono/chlam to pass orally is from the penis contacting the back of the throat, not from DATY. This is what the nurse at the STI clinic told me when I told her I ate out random hoes on the regular.
At the clinic I went to the Doc had the swab, I shoved it around my nose and then sent it in to Lifelabs. I checked my results online.
You could try showing up at a Lifelabs with your Lab Requisition give them the paper and ask for the correct swab and liquid (carrier system) , go into the bathroom and swab your own throat. Way back until you want to gag. Rub it around real good for 10-15 seconds. Then bring it back to the front desk.
Or maybe go to a Walk In Clinic and ask them for the correct swab and carrier liquid, pay them cash for it if they want to charge you, then head over to a Lifelabs, swab it outside and bring it in with the forms.
It's not Rocket Surgery. I don't know why everyone is giving you such a hard time when you are doing the right thing and trying to be a responsible human.
Tell that to Michael Douglas... in the article below one line stands out: "Overall, HPV-related oral cancers are most common in heterosexual men in their 40s and 50s."
Another good reason to get the Gardasil 9 vaccine.
(Unless you are an anti-vaxxer in which case you might want to get checked for e-coli from having your brown nose up Trump's diaper!
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Michael Douglas: oral sex caused my cancer
News: The actor Michael Douglas has revealed to the Guardian that the HPV virus, transmitted through oral sex, was responsible for his throat cancer
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Michael Douglas: oral sex caused my cancer
Actor reveals to the Guardian that HPV, transmitted through oral sex, was responsible for his throat cancer
Xan Brooks' full interview: Michael Douglas on Liberace, Cannes, cancer and cunnilingus
Catherine Shoard
Sun 2 Jun 2013 21.11 BST
Michael Douglas – the star of Basic Instinct and Fatal Attraction – has revealed that his throat cancer was apparently caused by performing oral sex.
In a surprisingly frank interview with the Guardian, the actor, now winning plaudits in the Liberace biopic Behind the Candelabra, explained the background to a condition that was thought to be nearly fatal when diagnosed three years ago. Asked whether he now regretted his years of smoking and drinking, usually thought to be the cause of the disease, Douglas replied: "No. Because without wanting to get too specific, this particular cancer is caused by HPV [human papillomavirus], which actually comes about from cunnilingus."
Douglas, the husband of Catherine Zeta Jones, continued: "I did worry if the stress caused by my son's incarceration didn't help trigger it. But yeah, it's a sexually transmitted disease that causes cancer. And if you have it, cunnilingus is also the best cure for it."
The actor, now 68, was diagnosed with cancer in August 2010, following many months of oral discomfort. But a series of specialists missed the tumour and instead prescribed antibiotics. Douglas then went to see a friend's doctor in Montreal who looked inside his mouth using a tongue depressor.
"I will always remember the look on his face," Douglas has previously said. "He said: 'We need a biopsy.' There was a walnut-size tumour at the base of my tongue that no other doctor had seen."
Shortly afterwards he was diagnosed with stage four cancer, which is often terminal, and embarked on an intensive eight-week course of chemotherapy and radiation. He refused to use a feeding tube, despite his palate being burnt on account of the treatment, and so lost 20kg (45lb) on a liquids-only diet. "That's a rough ride. That can really take it out of you," he told the Guardian. "Plus the amount of chemo I was getting, it zaps all the good stuff too. It made me very weak."
The treatment worked and Douglas is now more than two years clear of cancer. He has check-ups every six months, he said, "and with this kind of cancer, 95% of the time it doesn't come back".
The cause of Douglas's cancer had long been assumed to be related to his tobacco habit, coupled with enthusiastic boozing. In 1992, he was hospitalised for an addiction which some at the time claimed to be sex. Douglas himself denied this and said he was in rehab for alcohol abuse. He has also spoken of recreational drug use.
HPV, the sexually transmitted virus best known as a cause of cervical and anal cancer and genital warts, is thought to be responsible for an increasing proportion of oral cancers.
Some suggest that changes in sexual behaviour – a rise in oral sex in particular – are responsible. Such changes might be cultural, but could also be linked to fears about the safety of penetrative sex in the wake of the Aids epidemic.
Mahesh Kumar, a consultant head and neck surgeon in London, confirmed that the last decade has seen a dramatic rise in this form of cancer, particularly among younger sufferers. Recent studies of 1,316 patients with oral cancer found that 57% of them were HPV-16 positive.
"It has been established beyond reasonable doubt that the HPV type 16 is the causative agent in oropharyngeal cancer," said Kumar, who also testified to increased recovery rates among this kind of cancer sufferer. This would help explain why Douglas was given an 80% chance of survival, despite the advanced stage of his illness.
But Kumar expressed scepticism that Douglas's cancer was caused solely by HPV, and surprise at Douglas's assertion that cunnilingus could also help cure the condition. "Maybe he thinks that more exposure to the virus will boost his immune system. But medically, that just doesn't make sense."
Ann Robinson, a GP, expressed interest in how confirmation of this association would affect the rollout of the HPV vaccine, which is currently restricted in the UK. "My main priority with diagnosing a patient with oral cancer is to get them referred, as early intervention can be so crucial. Asking for a detailed sexual history would be inappropriate at that stage."
Douglas has two children, aged 10 and 12, with his second wife, Zeta Jones, as well as an older son, Cameron, from a previous marriage. In 2010, Cameron was sentenced to five years in prison for drugs possession and dealing, and a year later had his sentence extended until 2018 after he pleaded guilty to possessing drugs in prison.
HPV: the facts
There are more than 100 variants of HPV (human papillomavirus). They appear in different parts of the body and manifest themselves in different ways – some cause warts, but most are symptomless.
Some are spread by skin-to-skin contact, while others are typically spread during sex. When HPV is found in the mouth, it probably got there as a result of oral sex.
HPV is common – if you're a sexually active adult, you've probably had it. By the age of 25, 90% of sexually active people will have been exposed to some form of genital HPV.
Around 15 types of HPV are linked to increased cancer risk, but it can't be explicitly said to cause any particular cancers. It's a long-term risk factor: over years and decades the risk is increased, rather than overnight.
It is calculated that between 25% and 35% of oral cancers are HPV-related – meaning that it seems to be involved in 1,500-2,000 diagnoses a year.
Overall, HPV-related oral cancers are most common in heterosexual men in their 40s and 50s.
Teenage girls in the UK and elsewhere are now vaccinated against HPV, which should in time both protect them from cervical cancers and – it's believed – future partners from HPV-related oral cancers.
Read Xan Brooks' full interview with Michael Douglas
