An important part of maintaining your overall health is maintaining your sexual health. Unfortunately, sexual health often gets put on the back burner as many people choose to focus on preventing conditions and diseases such as heart disease, high blood pressure, high cholesterol, stroke, and more. However, your sexual health is just important, if not more.
STD testing procedures are an an effective way to stay on top of your sexual health. These can be performed either at your primary care physician’s office, a family health clinic, a free walk clinic, an urgent care center, or even at home thanks to at home STD testing kits. Regardless of where you choose to have your STD testing procedure done, it’s important to do regularly.
Unfortunately, embarrassment, fear, and even shame prevents many people from getting tested on a regular basis. In fact, some people have never been tested at all. This creates a problem in that many STD’s are asymptomatic, meaning they present little to no symptoms. Or, their symptoms or so generic or mild they can be easily mistaken for something else, such as the common cold. This allows many STD’s to be unknowingly spread from partner to partner, and can make it difficult to find the source.
Left untreated, STD’s can pose serious, even potentially fatal threats. For example, some STD’s may even cause infertility while others may lead to permanent symptoms such as painful outbreaks.
As such, it’s critical to maintain your sexual health, as well as the health of your partner or partners with regular STD testing. Your health and well being is worth it! More information like this.
