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posted by [identity profile] http://users.livejournal.com/la_marquise_de_/ at 04:58pm on 17/10/2008
It's an all-too-common female experience, alas. I'm currently banned because of the anti-depressants. Before that, I used to fail one time in 3 for low blood pressure or anaemia.
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posted by [identity profile] seph-hazard.livejournal.com at 05:06pm on 17/10/2008
Oh God, are ADs a fail too? In that case I fail on two counts! Oh well. I would if I could.

(It's all that gay sex nonsense, of course - I've slept with very few men who haven't had sex with another man! It still irritates me that that discounts you.)
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posted by [identity profile] darth-tigger.livejournal.com at 05:09pm on 17/10/2008
To paraphrase a comedian (sorry, I forget who), you'd be fine if you'd slept with Russel Brand but not if you'd slept with Stephen Fry.
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posted by [identity profile] brixtonbrood.livejournal.com at 07:06pm on 17/10/2008
Mitch Benn in an incredibly irritating and under researched song. If you saw the docco where Stephen Fry took an HIV test it was clear that it wasn't a formality. Brand goes to the US too much to donate, and I'd be staggered if he'd never slept with a sex worker, given his lap dancer habit. But unfortunately they've never perfected the question they really need for heterosexuals Are you a slag? Do you very frequently sleep with people you've only just met?
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posted by [identity profile] bugshaw.livejournal.com at 05:32pm on 17/10/2008
They reckoned it was okay to donate on sertraline, I don't know about other ADs.
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posted by [identity profile] hilarityallen.livejournal.com at 05:38pm on 17/10/2008
I inquired about this, and their response was if you're stable at the moment, and feel fine, then you are OK (providing you meet the other criteria, of course!). The general line is that you should ask first.
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posted by [identity profile] damerell.livejournal.com at 09:30pm on 17/10/2008
The incidence of HIV in MSMs is 20 times that of the population at large - obviously the factor is larger still when compared to the subset of the population who can give blood. There's no 100% effective test for HIV, and no test for the next blood-borne disease because we don't know what it is. The rules make sense, unfortunately.
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posted by [identity profile] pigeonhed.livejournal.com at 06:18pm on 17/10/2008
I didn't know about the AD issue. I've had the low BP fail in the past too.
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posted by [identity profile] brixtonbrood.livejournal.com at 06:56pm on 17/10/2008
They ask you about any medication at all and then look it up in a big book. I've missed a couple of donations because I forgetfully took a couple of aspirin for period pains within the 48 hour window.
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posted by [identity profile] cuboid-ursinoid.livejournal.com at 06:21pm on 17/10/2008
They said It was fine for me to donate and I think I'm still on the same meds as you.
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posted by [identity profile] http://users.livejournal.com/la_marquise_de_/ at 06:38pm on 17/10/2008
It does sometimes seem to depend on the knowledge of the person doing triage.
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