This is how long you have to wait before we can accurately test for a disease.

No. At samedaydoctor we offer a completely private and confidential service and we will not disclose your results to anyone unless you have asked us to do so.

When you perform oral sex on someone you can pick up of STI’s such as herpes, chlamydia, gonorrhoea and HPV. These STI’s usually have few, if any symptoms if present in the throat (with the exception of herpes) so the only way to tell if you have it is to have a throat swab.

Yes.

Yes, unfortunately you can infect someone even if you do not have active lesions although the risk is a lot less than when you have an outbreak.

Yes.

Yes, avoid sexual contact during an outbreak, condoms will reduce the risk when you don’t have lesions and you can take medication to try and prevent you from passing on the virus.

HPV is the Human Papilloma Virus. It is a sexually transmitted virus with over a 100 different strains. Some of these strains are more aggressive than others and are implicated in cervical, anal and throat cancers. Some strains if the virus causes genital warts.You can be infected with multiple strains of the virus at any given time. Just having HPV doesn’t automatically mean that you will get cancer from it though. The problem is persistent HPV infection in the areas such as the cervix and anus. Once the HPV infection has been present for some time it might start making changes in the cells that can eventually become pre-cancerous. This is the reason woman have smears, to detect any of these changes before they become cancerous. Due to the increase of anal cancers for the same reason, especially in HIV positive patients, we now offer anal smears for at risk men too.At the present time HPV cannot be cured but if you have one of the 4 most common strains we can now vaccinate partners to prevent them from catching one of those strains from you.

The main benefit is that you will get more time to spend discussing your problems with the doctor and that you will get your results much quicker. Most of our STI test results are back within 48 hours as opposed to a week to 10 days on the NHS. We also offer more advanced HIV test which means you do not have to wait 12 weeks. In most cases for men we can do urine screening without having to take the painful swab that puts men off sexual health screening.

This will depend on how often you have sex and how many different partners you have. I would definitely suggest a yearly screen at the very least, as there are several STI’s that have no symptoms and can be contracted and passed on without your knowledge. If you have multiple partners then you should screen more regularly, especially if you have a regular partner that is unaware of your other sexual partners.