Can one decline herpes testing?

[Anonymous]

DD has a welt on edge of labia near groin. Not super painful and likely ingrown hair. If she goes to doctor can she decline any sort of herpes test? (Swab or blood). She couldn’t handle the emotional piece of that now given all going on. She’s 19 and has had one partner - a boyfriend. Now she’s in college.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:DD has a welt on edge of labia near groin. Not super painful and likely ingrown hair. If she goes to doctor can she decline any sort of herpes test? (Swab or blood). She couldn’t handle the emotional piece of that now given all going on. She’s 19 and has had one partner - a boyfriend. Now she’s in college.

I hope this is fake?

[Anonymous]

Yeesh, usually you have to beg the doctors to give you a blood text to look for antibodiies for hsv 1 and 2, why on earth wouldn't your college age kid be able to handle knowing her sti status?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:DD has a welt on edge of labia near groin. Not super painful and likely ingrown hair. If she goes to doctor can she decline any sort of herpes test? (Swab or blood). She couldn’t handle the emotional piece of that now given all going on. She’s 19 and has had one partner - a boyfriend. Now she’s in college.

I hope this is fake?

Not at all - why? She would only use protection anyways. Getting a diagnosis for a teen that has no cure is a lot to deal with. It’s not even a standard test.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Yeesh, usually you have to beg the doctors to give you a blood text to look for antibodiies for hsv 1 and 2, why on earth wouldn't your college age kid be able to handle knowing her sti status?

Because there is no cure. People are reeling over the diagnosis

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:DD has a welt on edge of labia near groin. Not super painful and likely ingrown hair. If she goes to doctor can she decline any sort of herpes test? (Swab or blood). She couldn’t handle the emotional piece of that now given all going on. She’s 19 and has had one partner - a boyfriend. Now she’s in college.

I hope this is fake?

Not at all - why? She would only use protection anyways. Getting a diagnosis for a teen that has no cure is a lot to deal with. It’s not even a standard test.

This has to be a joke.

[Anonymous]

knowledge is power. If she's too afraid to know, she should not be sexually active

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:DD has a welt on edge of labia near groin. Not super painful and likely ingrown hair. If she goes to doctor can she decline any sort of herpes test? (Swab or blood). She couldn’t handle the emotional piece of that now given all going on. She’s 19 and has had one partner - a boyfriend. Now she’s in college.

I hope this is fake?

Not at all - why? She would only use protection anyways. Getting a diagnosis for a teen that has no cure is a lot to deal with. It’s not even a standard test.

This has to be a joke.

Not a joke. Why? It’s not even on a standard sti panel.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:knowledge is power. If she's too afraid to know, she should not be sexually active

Why if there is nothing to do about it? If she’s never going to have unprotected sex of course.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:knowledge is power. If she's too afraid to know, she should not be sexually active

Why if there is nothing to do about it? If she’s never going to have unprotected sex of course.

A) herpes can be spread even if someone is wearing a condom. B) herpes can cause health complications in certain situations. C) let's get real the anxiety of not knowing will drive her totally nuts.

[Anonymous]

OP, the thing is, there are drugs for herpes. Anti virals with virtually no side effects. She might want to know. And the most effective way to test for it is a swab when you have an active sore.

Anyway, yes, I would imagine you could say no to a swab test. And it doesn't really matter that she has only had one boyfriend. He could have oral herpes and given it to her that way. He could have had PIV sex with someone else and contracted herpes that way.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:knowledge is power. If she's too afraid to know, she should not be sexually active

Why if there is nothing to do about it? If she’s never going to have unprotected sex of course.

TO protect partners

So she can take anti virals

So when she gets pregnant she can tell her doctor and the doctor can put her on antivirals the last few weeks of her pregnancy so that she does not give her baby herpes, which can cause blindness in newborns

[Anonymous]

She would rather live in ignorance?

Or you would, Mom?

[Anonymous]

Nurse practitioner who works in an STI clinic here – yes, of course she can decline any tests that she doesn’t want done. An experienced set of eyes might look at what she has going on and be able to give her a sense of what it probably is/isn’t. Herpes testing itself is fickle, the swab (best test) has to be done at the right time or you can have a false negative. The blood test just tells you about lifetime exposure to type 1 or 2 (most adults have been exposed to one or the other) and does have a non-trivial false positive rate.

[Anonymous]

Oral sex spreads it. People can get throat cancer.

But seriously I have gone to gyn with abcesses on my labia and nobody gave me a herpes test.