Does anyone know where to get STD test?

[Brown Nose Bear]

@SchlongConery that article is informative about the risks of HPV, but it's irrelevant to the topic at hand. A throat swab doesn't detect HPV. In fact there is no test for HPV in men, they just make an educated guess that you have HPV. Women can get HPV detected during a pap test. There is no way to detect HPV via blood, urine, semen, swab, biopsy, whatever.

There's also no treatment for HPV. Your immune system eventually fights it off on its own, but it might cause cancer first. This reinforces your point that everyone should take the HPV vaccine. In any case, HPV testing and treatment is very minimal, so it's not relevant to this thread.

 

[SchlongConery]

@SchlongConery that article is informative about the risks of HPV, but it's irrelevant to the topic at hand. A throat swab doesn't detect HPV. In fact there is no test for HPV in men, they just make an educated guess that you have HPV. Women can get HPV detected during a pap test. There is no way to detect HPV via blood, urine, semen, swab, biopsy, whatever.

There's also no treatment for HPV. Your immune system eventually fights it off on its own, but it might cause cancer first. This reinforces your point that everyone should take the HPV vaccine. In any case, HPV testing and treatment is very minimal, so it's not relevant to this thread.

You are right in that oral HPV testing is not currently available in Ontario. But clinical throat swabs for bacterial infections are common. I don't agree that you need to suck cock to get oral STI's.

As an aside and as an example of unusual infections. A previous gf kept getting UTI's whenever we had sex despite being super careful not to bring anything from the dump to the playground. She seemed to think she was allergic to my jizz. I had an idea and asked my Doc if he'd give me a Lab requistion for a semen culture. He poo-poo'd the idea but I used the magic words I mentioned above and he relented. Lo and behold I had an asymptomatic prostate infection of Klebsiella pneumoniae. Got an injection of an antibiotic (I prefer injections over oral antibiotics if available as it doesn;t fuck up my gut flora and cause me to fart. Follow up semen culture unmasked an antibiotic resistant type of e. coli infection of my prostate! Lab results recommend specific antibiotic that this strain of e.coli responds to. Only oral antibiotics for this so I took them. A month later, semen culture came back negative. That ex-gf LOVED anal and I was super aware of the (small) risk of infection from shit and ass bacteria so always washed my dick well after sex. Well it seems the bacteria managed to climb back up my dick into my prostate gland.

So, you never know when, where or how you might acquire an infection.

However, there is indeed a PCR swab test for oral HPV. Having said that, a Physican can use or prescribe just about anything off label. So for purposes of

Throat HPV Testing for Patients — OmniPathology

www.omnipathology.com

 

[AlinaDD]

Hassle free clinic at Gerrard and Church
West end clinic at Crossways ctr Dundas W at Bloor
East end clinic is Scarborough ctr for healthy communities Markham and Lawrence.
I don't have the contact info but they can all be googled.

 

[OntGuy2010]

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!

I can also confirm - well worth the extra cost to me.

 

[Slateher]

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!

I’m open to using teletest for convenience but is it more or less discrete than hassle free. Hassle free worth the hassle if commuting to the city and dealing with the uncertainty of daily dropin availability?

 

[Muchadoaboutnothing]

I’m open to using teletest for convenience but is it more or less discrete than hassle free. Hassle free worth the hassle if commuting to the city and dealing with the uncertainty of daily dropin availability?

Go to safer six. Two locations in the city. can book online. They also have free condoms and lube and vaccines etc.
I found hassle free a hassle trying to get an appointment because I couldn’t get them on the phone so it was playing tag and wasting time.
I’ve never had issues going to walk in clinic personally and asking for as in demanding a full panel std sti test a swabs for bacteria in mouth etc.
also check the government province of Ontario website and city you live in for extra resources on sex health testing clinics. theres like ten other ones in the city but they only operate on certain days of the week

 

[Muchadoaboutnothing]

@SchlongConery that article is informative about the risks of HPV, but it's irrelevant to the topic at hand. A throat swab doesn't detect HPV. In fact there is no test for HPV in men, they just make an educated guess that you have HPV. Women can get HPV detected during a pap test. There is no way to detect HPV via blood, urine, semen, swab, biopsy, whatever.

There's also no treatment for HPV. Your immune system eventually fights it off on its own, but it might cause cancer first. This reinforces your point that everyone should take the HPV vaccine. In any case, HPV testing and treatment is very minimal, so it's not relevant to this thread.

The treatment is actually terrible and painful for women

 

[Muchadoaboutnothing]

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.

If they can afford to be in this hobby which is presumably why they’re on this site they can afford to get all the necessary vaccines and should before coming and infecting all of us

 

[Muchadoaboutnothing]

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.

This is wrong and misinformation. evwrhpnw should always get full panel testing. Throat swabs for sti std and strep bacteria is a must !!! Plus blood work for mono you need to specifically ask for

 

[Muchadoaboutnothing]

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.

This is all very true. I’m tired of thesr posts of married men not getting tested because they think their doctor is going to rat them out. Truly the only way your spouse will find out is if they find your prescription. In which case pay for it out of pocket or don’t allow her to go through your claims. But even so I don’t think they would ever care to do this. Also antibiotics are given for so many reasons so the immediate reaction wouldn’t be you cheater !!

 

[Muchadoaboutnothing]

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

Lifelabs and dynacare do it …

 

[Muchadoaboutnothing]

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.

You can also ask for a nasal spray omnaris. Do the Neti pot every morning and nigh has been very helpful for not getting sick. Also I just ordered strep tests and Covid tests and flu an and b tests on two different sites which will be helpful

 

[Brown Nose Bear]

I’m open to using teletest for convenience but is it more or less discrete than hassle free. Hassle free worth the hassle if commuting to the city and dealing with the uncertainty of daily dropin availability?

If you use your health card to access/pay for services, the results go into a provincial database that your family doctor can access. This applies to Hassle Free, Teletest, or anywhere else. If you pay out of pocket you can keep the results out of the database, but you still have to give them your contact info in case you test positive and they need to notify you. Hassle Free might offer fully anonymous testing but Teletest doesn't.

 

[Brown Nose Bear]

The treatment is actually terrible and painful for women

I should have been more clear, they can treat the symptoms of HPV (warts, etc) but not the infection itself.

This is wrong and misinformation. evwrhpnw should always get full panel testing. Throat swabs for sti std and strep bacteria is a must !!! Plus blood work for mono you need to specifically ask for

I was just repeating was l what the nurse at the sex health clinic told me years ago. Recently I've been hearing more stories about men getting oral gonorrhea though.

This is all very true. I’m tired of thesr posts of married men not getting tested because they think their doctor is going to rat them out.

Even worse are the guys that are embarrassed about their family doctor finding out. This is the same doctor that cradles your balls and fingers your ass.

 

[Robert Mugabe]

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.