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S T D ! S T D ! S T D !

D Terminator XXXIII

17:23 / 30.04.05

Ho ho ho. I'm cleaver, me.

Fnat is scabies, and scabies is fnat. In Danish. And here you prolly thought I'd mistyped fnatastic. Sorry, fantastic. Ho ho ho.

But not so cleaver to have avoided a bout with the fnat. How I got it, I don't know. Perhaps the transexual, with whom I fooled around with non-sexually last weekend, gave it to me. The date matches, in any case.

My first case of the scabies was 6 years ago. It was a time of highly charged sexual encounters. Never having caught anything before, I first thought it was an allergic reaction to something - food, perfume, bathing soap, I couldn't guess. I went a week where I alternately cut something from my daily routine in order to determine whether or not it was an allergic reaction. And during this time, they grew and multiplied. Fast.

At some point, I sincerely thought I had gotten a serious disease. The fact that I no longer slept pushed my fragile mind into dread. After a week of insomnia, because of the damnable itch, I went to a STD clinic where it was recognized and where I recieved treatment to end my bout with my archenemies.

They resurfaced 5 days ago, which was an unfortunate time. I had a fever which came and went, and Tuesday it came and wouldn't let go until Thursday evening. They grew and multiplied while my body had a higher temperature than usual. It's under control now, but this got me wondering what your bouts with the various forms of STDs were...

Takers?

17:31 / 30.04.05

Forgive my innocence, but how are scabies an STD?

D Terminator XXXIII

17:41 / 30.04.05

They're usually passed on while a couple of warm bodies are in direct contact with one another. Usually during sex. Casual sex.

17:49 / 30.04.05

Pull yourself together.

alejandrodelloco

17:55 / 30.04.05

Scabies rhymes with rabies too!

17:58 / 30.04.05

It's true. Scabies are sometimes referred to as pubic lice. They are not passed on solely through sexual contact, however.

Båmblng Bæ Uø, what was previously known as a "Sexually Transmitted Disease" or "STD", is now actually termed "STI", or "Sexually Transmitted Infection". I think this is because "infection" descibes these maladies more accurately and also because "disease" carries more of a stigma to it.

D Terminator XXXIII

18:05 / 30.04.05

Scabies are sometimes referred to as pubic lice.

But aren't confined to the pubic area. I might be an odd case (and damn proud of it) but my body achieves high temperatures like easy. Awfully easy. And the couple of times now, the scabies didn't spread from the pubic area but rather, from my arms, down the chest area, genitalia legs and everywhere else. 'Snot fun.

D Terminator XXXIII

18:07 / 30.04.05

(not when one has to undergo plastic surgery in 5 days and move somewhere else in 2 weeks time)

Our Lady Has Left the Building

18:48 / 30.04.05

Happy talkin', talkin Happy talk
Talk about things you'd like to do
You've got to have a dream
If you don't have a dream
How you gonna have a dream come true?

19:42 / 30.04.05

If scabies is an STD, then colds are an STD. Which they're not. So your entire abstract is a nonsense of biblical proportions.

23:05 / 30.04.05

Can't you also get these from drinking milk though ?

23:57 / 30.04.05

I heard you could get scabies from impure thoughts.

00:07 / 01.05.05

Well you can do, yes, but only if you're drinking milk at the time, as I understand it.

08:01 / 01.05.05

Speaking of milk and STD:

You might get mad cow disease, if your bovine relationships get too intimate.

09:03 / 01.05.05

Fridge, while it's true that there are lots of opportunities to catch scabies that are not sexual, just like hepatitis or mono, it is frequently (perhaps incorrectly) referred to as a sexually transmitted disease. Heap your scorn on the medical profession, not your fellow poster.

10:20 / 01.05.05

Pull yourself together.

Or, to be a moaning bint : can we have the abstract shortened down please? Can't a mod just do that without having to ask first?

11:52 / 01.05.05

Interesting fact: In Germany, contracting scabies means your entire household is put in quarantine for a week. Nobody's allowed to leave the house and you're given a huge crate of sprays and ointments with which to combat the wee beasties. So you can imagine the surprise of the house full of German exchange students who contracted scabies and were then told by the uni GP to simply wash, 'use this cream' and carry on as normal.

D Terminator XXXIII

15:21 / 01.05.05

Which they're not. So your entire abstract is a nonsense of biblical proportions.

Strictly speaking. But are you speaking strictly or just, I don't know, buying time until you eventually tell us of (and tell us off) your interesting contraction of, say, syphilis?

I have a proper STD story to tell but I'm waiting until someone eventually struggles over the wall of embarrasment.

16:16 / 01.05.05

Desperate attempt to make this a thread about something other than bickering about the abstract:
About a month ago I finally got around to getting tested. Long over due since my last girlfriend, who I haven't seen in well over a year - knock on wood, was a....what's the word? OH YEAH! A nasty cokehead whore! Anyway, I'm proud/happy to report, I am free of sexually transmitted nasties. So don't be afraid Barbelith. Come closer...closer...

17:06 / 01.05.05

If we're making shameful STI-related confessions, mine would be that I've never been tested for anything. I've got the all-clear on the more pedestrian ailments by proxy, but as for the big ones - the ones you really need to get tested for - I've maintained ignorance. What's most disturbing about this is that I have this ridiculous, kinda Schrodingerian notion that if I don't *know* whether I'm HIV+ (for example) I'm *not* HIV+.

01:20 / 03.05.05

Bizzaro... truly bizzaro...

I'd never heard that scabies was considered an STD, although it makes sense. Growing up in an *ahem* white trash hell scabies were like cooties, except for real.
They used to close nearby schools for days due to scabies epidemics. All the coolest kids in town had scabies.
I hear summer camps suffer the same complaint, more specific to lice in general. And i think that would qualify as an infestation, not an infection.

Our current terminology is one hundred years behind the time.

01:41 / 03.05.05

And as for not getting tested for Aids because of a quasi-scientific superstition about the quantum uncertainty principal:

A) There are at least five interpretations of Heisinger's conclusion, none proven as of yet.

B) The aplication here is that by not getting tested you are somehow not collapsing the probability waveform into
existence Either/or Positive/Negative. Arguably Valid.
However, despite your maintained willful ignorance somewhere in hyperpace (or, whatever) there is a posibility that you are carrying a virus (not an indeterminate quantum state, since it may already have been 'observed' by your immune system, but a molecule built of many atoms).

C) Weather or not you will be affected in the future, ie. that the probability of infection is 100%, depends on the current probability of infection determined by variable factors like # of partners, their #of partners, use of protection, use of injected drugs, even top/bottom.
But being ignorant of the shape of the likely probability is not he same as the probability being = to 0 just because your clue-0-meter is reading zero. The probability level could be rising or about to collapse on its own while you hum blissfully.

SO GET TESTED MORON!

Tuna Ghost: Pratt knot hero

22:36 / 03.05.05

Yes, by all means get tested. Not just for AIDS. I had a scare about two years ago when my then girlfriend casually mentioned, in a discussion about favorite movies, that she might have chlamydia. I mean, jesus. One minute were talking happily about Humphrey Bogart and the next she's telling me she might have an STI, and I might as well. Turns out it was something else, although her roomates were riddled with it. Among other things.

So get tested. Have some certainty when you spring the news on someone in the middle of a conversation about, oh, I don't know, let's say the wheather, or Bill Cosby's speech to the NAACP last year.

23:42 / 03.05.05

Point 1: Scabies is a rash. It is acutally the burrowing path of the Sarcoptes scabiei, a mite. It's not a disease.
Point 2: Scabies are not actually pubic lice. Pubic lice is really Phthirus pubis, the crab louse (that's why they call it crabs). The difference is that pubic lice tend to stick to hairy areas, while scabies is pretty indiscriminate about where it spreads.
Point 3: Both are often caught from entirely non-sexual contact, such as sleeping in infested beddding (like in not-so-clean hotels). No physical contact with another human being required, although if you have to contract bugs, that's probably the more enjoyable way of doing so.

Now, I know all of this because after I read the opening post, I looked it up. For the love of god, if you're sick or infected or whatever, bloody well look up what it is you have, before you start spouting faulty information.

And to back up a few who have replied before me, anyone who doesn't get tested for anything and everything between partners is a complete idiot.

00:14 / 04.05.05

And to back up a few who have replied before me, anyone who doesn't get tested for anything and everything between partners is a complete idiot.

Really? Does everyone do this?

00:51 / 04.05.05

no.
that's why we still have so many STIs in the first place.
good idea, though.

22:09 / 04.05.05

Threadrot for horrible scabies story...

while at sixth form college a large proportion of the students had to be quarantined after a free party was held in an empty field that had previously been used to hold scabies infested sheep.

Dancing hugging and general merriment made for a ripe breeding ground. The college set up an emergency drop in clinic- horrible for those concerned but largely (i always believed) it was contract non sexually.

The word scabbies still sends a shudder down my spine- even though i missed the party i still remember sitting in class with 5-6 people scratching relentlessly. Yuk!