Originally Posted by
oneeyedreilly
Been punting for quite a while home and abroad and never had check up. Don't think I have any problems but I feel I would like a good check over just to be sure. Anybody recommend somewhere discreet that offers a good class, reliable check over. Would like to get done in the next week so if I need to go private, let me know.
Jeepers mate!!!!
You have to do it!! You owe it to yourself and the girls you see.
Any GP surgery preferrably not yours, will do. Make an appointment in advance and tell the secretary it's for a routine STD check. That way you'll be told if the GP surgery does routine testing or not. Most certainly will. As a private patient expect to pay about 100 euro.
Testing includes - a urine sample for Clamydiae and Gonnorhoea. And a blood test for HIV, Hep B and Syphilis.
You won't need a urethral swab unless you have an unwanted discharge emiting from your penis. In which case you should have gone some time ago!!
Anyway, all punters should go three monthly. You get used to it and get over the embarrassment pretty quick. You don't have to tell them exacly why you get tested. I reckon my GP thinks I'm a flagrant gay male!!
Also it's well worth getting vaccinated against Hep B - the other (next to HIV) potentially fatal virus - that unlike HIV has a vaccine.
"Don't be reckless with other people’s hearts. Don't put up with people who are reckless with yours"