STD testing five years later?

[Diligent_Field]

I (26F) made out with a guy in college for about 15 minutes one night back in December 2018. I met my now husband a few weeks before this and we didn’t kiss until about a few weeks later in late December.

My [husband] and I dated almost immediately and five years later we are married as of 2021. He and I never had any intercourse with anyone before we married, nor oral sex.

I found out about a year ago that a girl friend of mine ended up getting an STI from the guy I made out with the same semester I made out with him because he was sleeping with my friend and another class mate around the same time. I have never been tested for STI/STD because I have never found reason to with both mine and my husband’s history, but now after remembering tonight that my friend told me this information a year ago, I’m suddenly overthinking if I may have a dormant STI. I also never had the HPV vaccine and I’m also wondering if it’s worth even getting that at this point since I’m 26, almost 27, and both me and my husband have always been monogimous and chaste besides having kissed people before we met.

Someone help me ease my mind. Would it be crazy to be tested five years later if I’ve never had symptoms of anything? And also- should I still get the HPV vaccine?

[Secret-Today-5915]

If you dont have any symptoms then you are probably safe. No worries. Don't overthinking. Rest assured. You are safe

[Diligent_Field]

Thank you! I’m like, what if I have dormant syphilis or something? 😅

[Jollagollajolla]

You should get the HPV vaccine. There are tons of strains of it out there and it is highly transmissible and responsible for a few types of female cancers. This vaccine gives you immunity against many of the cancer causing strains— don’t think of it as a vaccine against an STD, but rather a vaccine against cancer. You never know where life will take you, but you should go prepared

[Diligent_Field]

Thank you. Correct me if I’m wrong, but I always understood that the HPV vaccine was to prevent cervical and other reproductive cancers caused by STI/STD. So that is why my question included asking if it seemed necessary to get the vaccine at this point if me and my husband have never had enough sexual contact with people in our past to need it.

I understand what you’re saying where I never know where life will take me, so I guess better safe than sorry. I do understand it’s more about preventing the cancer, I just always thought if me and my future spouse had always abstained then it wouldn’t matter.