Comments | lilyofthewest: STI screening

lilyofthewest

STI screening - do it!

Jul 13, 2011 18:05

A combination of friends, acquaintances, metamours, and patients making choices that disappoint or scare me have tipped me into making a PSA about STI screening, and about sexual health/wellness more generally ( Read more... )

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kimd July 14 2011, 14:08:04 UTC

You have given me extra inspiration for my testing next month. And thank you for compiling all the useful links.

lilyofthewest July 14 2011, 16:09:40 UTC

Good for you! I hope you have no hassles or trouble getting appropriate screening and that all results are normal and negative. :)

ofmagdalena July 15 2011, 04:10:21 UTC

Thanks for the reminder. I'll stop procrastinating on setting up my appointment. I appreciate the info on what to ask about as well.

eposia July 20 2011, 17:12:09 UTC

I would like to link to this, can you give expanded forms of the abbreviations you use like GSS which I am unfamiliar with? Thanks!

lilyofthewest November 1 2011, 14:27:28 UTC

Oops, never saw this reply until now -- guess it must have happened during one of the periodic comment notification outages.

Anyhow, yes, you are very welcome to link to this! :)

GSS stands for General Social Survey. The GSS is a huge sociological survey of the US that well-loved by both professional and armchair researchers because its data set is available to the public and they have some basic data analysis tools built right into their site. http://www3.norc.org/GSS+Website/

Please correct me if I'm wrong, but I think the only other missing abbreviation expansion is ACOG. ACOG is the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists. It is the professional organisation for OB-Gyn providers, as well as the organization that issues guidance on things like timing of pap smears and management of common OB-Gyn conditions.
http://www.acog.org/

moominmuppet July 26 2011, 03:05:26 UTC

Thanks! OK to link to this next time I do a linketies post?

lilyofthewest November 1 2011, 14:27:47 UTC

Just finally saw this comment now -- but, absolutely!

moominmuppet August 31 2011, 01:24:09 UTC

Hey, if you get a chance could you take a look at this post of mine and add any insight you have into the Mirena question?

http://moominmuppet.livejournal.com/1588678.html

lilyofthewest November 1 2011, 14:28:49 UTC

Just saw this comment too -- would be happy to, but it is coming up as protected/no access. Maybe on a filter I'm not in? In any case, I'm up for being added to whatever filter it is if input would still be helpful.

moominmuppet November 14 2011, 03:39:07 UTC

Oops, sorry! I just locked down a bunch of stuff because my partner's ex is about to become aware of my existence and I'm trying to smooth the path a bit. It was a question about IUDs and fisting -- there's no actual research on the topic I can find, but anecdotally I'm hearing it's fine. Any feedback from your side of the women's health world?