and if you dont know if you have one then what does getting tested foor one do anyway?
are there any that your body can naturally heal yourself that like are minor?
Bird
There are not many STDs. Chlamydia, syphilis, gonorrhea,crabs, scabies, trichomonasis are all cureable/treatable with antibiotics. However if STDs are not treated it can lead to serious complications such as infertility.
HIV, HPV, and herpes, are non cureable. however the body usually does rid itself of HPV on it's own. Sometimes, a certain strain of HPV can be linked to an increase risked of cervical cancer.
By knowing whether or not you are infected, you can get proper medical treatment and prevent others from being infected.
Robbie
There are a huge number of diseases which can potentially be transmitted by sexual contact.
Some diseases cause no symptoms at all in some people, but when transmitted to someone else will cause a severe infection. Anyway, its better to be sure as some of the symptoms are hard to detect.
There are some which may or may not go away over time, but treatment is almost always recommended.
Stephen Colbert for President
1) I guess that it would come down to bacterial and viral, but there might be some subsets of viral.
2) It lets you know that you have one, hopefully you wouldn't risk another persons life or quality of life if you knew you had one. You may also be able to cure it depending on which one it is.
3) I don't think that it is considered an STD if your body can naturally heal itself. If there was one I would think it would be the one where you get lice in your pubic hair.
chip193
There are many different kinds of STDs.
First, there are bacteria. Chlamydia and Gonnorhea are two of the most common. There is also a vaginal bacterosis, but that's more annoying than dangerous. All three of these have a discharge and itch. Syphillis is also a bacteria, but it is more of a systemic infection, especially in the secondary and tertiary stages. All the bacteria is cured with antibiotics.
Then there's the viruses. There are warts, usually caused by HPV. Then there's hepatitis B and C, and HIV. None have a cure.
Of course, there's also yeast. That can be sexual or not.
John W
I seem to remember that a 2001 Merck Manual said there were over 70 different types of STD's but all the references that I've found today said there are over 20 different types of STD's. The difference is probably just a change in classification, the reality is that there are a lot of them that we know of and probably a lot more that we don't know of. Plus there are many variations of each type, ie.: there are 70 different types of HPV.
There is no magic test or tricorder that will tell you what STD if any that you have. Our current level of technology requires us to hypothesis what std may be there and then to test for something to confirm or contradict the hypothesis. There are common STD's that the CDC recommends testing for, they determine them based on prevalence, and consequence. This is why Herpes isn't one of the STD's listed as STD's to test for since it's mostly just a nuisance and is of minimal consequence. Still it's a good idea to follow the CDC guidelines.
If you don't know if you have one then all the more reason to test for the common std's and the std's with serious consequences, just to see if you had them so treatment can begin. Had you known you had one then you would not need to test for it hence not knowing is not a reason to not get a test.
It's true that there are false positives and false negatives with the tests so just because you have results one way or the other isn't cause to let down your guard or to feel like it's the end of the world. Simply take a positive result as an indication that treatment is warranted in case the positive happens to be true and take a negative result as not being definitive and be tested on a regular basis.
The human body is very adept at healing, however many STD's require treatment. If the STD was one that your body can fight off on it's own then it would not make it onto the CDC list of STD's to check for.
The myth that your body can naturally heal a std itself is mostly due to Herpes. The actual symptoms when contracted are just flu like symptoms as it is a viral infection and usually goes unnoticed but the nature of the disease is the occasional flare up of symptoms that goes away in a few days. hence it's common for those who have contracted Herpes to be concerned when experiencing a flare up for the first time and as the symptoms goes away in a few days, simply assume that the body had healed itself when in fact the body had not. It's ironic that the STD considered most permanent is the one that convinces people that whatever they had was just temporary.
STD's are far more prevalent than people realize. For example, they say that one third of the population have Herpes whether they know it or not (it's probably much higher than one third) and they say that the chance of infection is 75% when with someone who is infected. If you assume this to be the case then if you've had sex with five different partners just once with each, simple math says that you are 76% likely to have already contracted Herpes. The odds are actually far higher since the one third estimate is one third of the general population whereas you would probably be having sex with people who are a bit more promiscuous than average, hence much more likely to have contracted Herpes.
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