In email contact prior to an upcoming appt, the provider I am going to see shared her practices when it comes to safe sex (her STI testing schedule the fact that she requires barriers for everything). I am totally fine with using barriers, but when I went to go check when my last STI panel was so that I could provide her with similar reassurance, I found that it was nearly 2 years ago! 🤦‍♀️

I take my health seriously and use protection myself, but I hadn’t realized it had been that long since my last panel.

I have scheduled myself with a clinic to get testing done, but I don’t know how likely it is that my results will be back before my date with her. Should I reschedule?

For clarity, she didn’t ask when my last test was or how often I get tested — she just provided her own info. I just feel bad that I can’t offer her the same reassurance.

Edit:

For folks saying to test after every encounter, how is an “encounter” defined?

So here’s my situation:

I had been on a schedule of testing every 6 months since going non-monogamous in 2017. However, I have only had the same 3 long-term committed partners during that time. So since my last test result in 2022, I haven’t had any new partners (except the escort I met with a few weeks ago for one date, but we only did kissing and hand stuff) — but, obviously, I have had sex with them many times in that span.

So when you say “encounter” do you mean every time you have sex? Or every new partner?