Reportable disease and partner notification

[badbadboy]

Agreed. STI treatment doesn't require months if it is bacterial. BBBs infection was a soft tissue infection which is much harder to treat if it gets bad.

Thanks for clearing it up amigo.

Mine was on my arm and the redness around the bite was growing by the hour. The clinic MD told me to get it taken care of ASAP or there could be some repercussions health wise.

I think you just got appointed the New Health MD :nod:

 

[amigo67]

Thanks for clearing it up amigo.

Mine was on my arm and the redness around the bite was growing by the hour. The clinic MD told me to get it taken care of ASAP or there could be some repercussions health wise.

I think you just got appointed the New Health MD :nod:

Aww shucks. Yeah those insect bites are nasty. They can quickly turn into flesh eating disease if the bug is carrying bad bacteria.

 

[myselftheother]

It may not be that your partner had an sti....could be that she was riding a different pony. Lasted 3 months, and then it ended. Back to the old grind...

 

[Trus'Me]

deleted the whole pathetic post...

sorry to anyone who read that tripe.

 

[Health Nurse]

Hi Trus’me

In BC there are a number of reportable STI that public health follow up with like chlamydia, gonorrhea, syphilis, HIV, hepatitis B etc…

When someone tests positive to one of these there are a number of different ways to let sex partners know.

- The person who tested could tell their partner’s
- They can give us the partner’s details and we would let the person know without giving the details of the person who tested positive.
- It is also possible for someone to send an anonymous ecard through www.inspot.org

We would only let you know about something if someone tested positive to something and then gave us your details.

We know that telling a partner can be a life altering decision so we support the person as much as possible and go with what they feel is best. Most people I talk with say they would prefer to inform their own partners but we have no way to verify if this happened.

Azithromycin is a common antibiotic that we use at the clinic but like other people have pointed out it is a common antibiotic that has other uses.

I don’t know your full situation or your partner’s situation but I can see why you may be concerned. I can’t begin to count the amount of people I have given antibiotics to and asked if they can avoid sex for 3 months (syphilis and HIV window period).

There are also situations when we would give antibiotics to people before waiting for test results because they are so concerned that they could pass something to a partner. This means the person gets antibiotics without having a positive STI test. People I find in this situation are very concerned about their partners and want to do everything to avoid passing something on. Just on the chance they could have caught something (common to see men who are married and the condom breaks with a casual partner)

It is purely guess work to think that your partner was positive for an STI without telling you. It’s also possible that something could have happened that put them at risk of getting an STI and they wanted to reduce the risk of passing something to a steady partner just on the chance they could have got something.

HN
www.smartsexresource.com

 

[amigo67]

I don’t know your full situation or your partner’s situation but I can see why you may be concerned. I can’t begin to count the amount of people I have given antibiotics to and asked if they can avoid sex for 3 months (syphilis and HIV window period).

HN
www.smartsexresource.com

That would explain the 3 months of no sex.

 

[sevenofnine]

If I'm not mistaken, I take that all the time, arthromizain. I'm allergic to penicillin and that is what they give me for strep throat etc.
Well not all the time, it was like a decade ago the last prescription I had.