...and you expect them to _know_? What happens if they've had sex with someone who's HIV+ (or herpes+, or chlamydia+, or syphilis+, or hepatitis+, or whatever) in the past few days, who didn't know THEY were positive?
You're running a huge risk there. It takes 11 days for the HIV virus to be detectable in the bloodstream with the most advanced tests we have -- 6 months to a FULL YEAR for the antibodies to show up, for the classical tests.
Chlamydia is a bacteria, not a virus. It usually shows up in the next couple of days as an itching is both males and females... but not always detectably.
Syphilis is also a bacteria, but it shows up 4 to 8 weeks later.
Hepatitis is a virus. A, B, C, D, and E -- all different strains. You can only be inoculated against A and B (though D and E usually require B to be present before they can gain a foothold). Hep C is -nasty-. Can take over a year to recover from.
Herpes -- either type B or C can be infested in either the genital region or the mouth. Both are extremely virulent. And neither one has to be visible to be infectuous.
It sucks -- but there's no way around it. Do you -really- trust your partners enough to tell you when they've got something that they don't want you to know about? (If you're monogamous, or bigamous and your partners are bigamous within the circle, absolutely wonderful. But be sure you know what you're getting into.)
Just a friendly warning. As always, your life is your own to live. (I don't have to do anything with you, or anyone you've done. ;>)
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Re: STD transmission prevention...
Date: 2002-07-02 08:17 pm (UTC)You're running a huge risk there. It takes 11 days for the HIV virus to be detectable in the bloodstream with the most advanced tests we have -- 6 months to a FULL YEAR for the antibodies to show up, for the classical tests.
Chlamydia is a bacteria, not a virus. It usually shows up in the next couple of days as an itching is both males and females... but not always detectably.
Syphilis is also a bacteria, but it shows up 4 to 8 weeks later.
Hepatitis is a virus. A, B, C, D, and E -- all different strains. You can only be inoculated against A and B (though D and E usually require B to be present before they can gain a foothold). Hep C is -nasty-. Can take over a year to recover from.
Herpes -- either type B or C can be infested in either the genital region or the mouth. Both are extremely virulent. And neither one has to be visible to be infectuous.
It sucks -- but there's no way around it. Do you -really- trust your partners enough to tell you when they've got something that they don't want you to know about? (If you're monogamous, or bigamous and your partners are bigamous within the circle, absolutely wonderful. But be sure you know what you're getting into.)
Just a friendly warning. As always, your life is your own to live. (I don't have to do anything with you, or anyone you've done. ;>)