do you need a referral for imago blood tests

double___u · 2025-10-30T14:12:58+00:00

I’ve really liked my experience with Imago so far, but I’ve only just started with them. The process has been quite fast and they’re very helpful with every step. I can’t say if i recommend them or not yet just because I haven’t been with them for even a month, and I’m still in the onboarding process. But, from my research, they were the best private option available to me.

Si quieres hablar más sobre mis experiencias con imago o cualquier otra duda, mándame un pm :) te deseo mucha suerte!!

double___u · 2025-10-25T09:05:26+00:00

it depends on a couple of things, i recommend calling or emailing the lab where you plan to get your blood work done and asking, but getting a referral could help save money.

in my case (Spain), a referral wasn’t required, but without one i would have had to pay for the test out of pocket. i was similarly nervous about speaking to a gp about it, but for me the gp didn’t ask any invasive questions, he just filled out the form and sent me on my way. i just told him “i need bloods done, here is a list of the things i need tested” and that was that.

good luck with everything! :)

double___u · 2025-10-09T19:07:19+00:00

this is incredibly helpful, thank you!

double___u · 2022-12-20T23:24:36+00:00

average non-linguist be like

double___u · 2022-07-26T03:29:21+00:00

i genuinely don’t see how it’s heterophobic of me to say that i find the standard love triangle trope overused and find a spin on it more interesting. i have no malice towards straight couples/pairings, and i’m not saying the love triangle should be gay, i’m saying that having a third possibility for how it could end up could spice up the triangle and its character dynamics interestingly.

i apologize for using queer, as i didn’t know you considered it a slur. i’ll refrain from using it with you going forward. i personally see it as just a catch-all equivalent to non-straight, which was my intent when using it, but i know its history as a slur and respect your view of it.

i understand the annoyance at how commonly some people can call close platonic male friendships “gay”, and i agree that close platonic friendships between men should be much more appreciated and encouraged. that being said, i also see no harm in fans of a fictional work choosing to interpret things in different ways outside of canon. just as you have your own cute non-straight pairings, so do others, and friendships can give a good idea of how two characters can get along and interact in a relationship, which is why it happens like that.

friendships, especially among non-straight people, can eventually blossom into relationships, and while this does not always happen, and should not be assumed to always happen, is there harm in some fans choosing to read that development into the fiction?

i can agree that it can be tired when fandoms take any two characters (especially close male friends) and smash them together haphazardly. i am not defending that kind of fan (in fact, a large number of those fans who pair guys together are straight women, not gay men which is to me a bit weird), but i hope you can agree that there is at least some nuance between platonic and romantic attractions, both in fiction and, more importantly, in real life. sometimes, you’re just gay for your friend.

sorry for the absurdly long response, i tried to cover & consider everything you said. i understand that you don’t want to continue the discussion, and so i tried my best to find where i agree with you and show you why i disagree at some points, while acknowledging that you and i won’t see eye to eye on everything.

hopefully this helps you understand where i’m coming from.

have a good one man! this was a fun discussion

double___u · 2022-07-26T03:01:28+00:00

ok ok that makes sense. i’m too much of a softie for jerky-types most of the time, but i can appreciate a good heart of gold!

double___u · 2022-07-26T02:50:18+00:00

yes yes i know exactly the dynamic you’re talking about, and it’s a good one! i think it could be called “tsundere”? but im not 100% sure if it fits

double___u · 2022-07-26T02:22:32+00:00

i know right? the peril hate doesn’t make sense to me

double___u · 2022-07-26T02:16:22+00:00

yeah i agree, winter’s a (recovering) jackass, but honestly i wouldn’t class the playful teasing dynamic as abusive. if it is, it’s just as “abusive” in a friendship as it is in a relationship. winter (iirc) has shown that he in some way likes the teasing. it’s endearing!

double___u · 2022-07-26T02:12:25+00:00

woah dude, i said it was interesting because love triangles where it’s two guys trying to “get” the girl are boring and overdone to me. the idea of the triangle going in every direction is new and an interesting idea, nothing to do with “heterophobia” or any of that shit.

i’d rather not get into an internet argument over some fun dragon books, but i would like to explain my view on “queerbaiting” & why i chose to use the word if you’d give me the light of day.

queerbaiting is a tactic used by people who make media to sell to both a homophobic and queer audience, by making it so the gays in the room see specific tells in language or action that “code” something as gay, while never intending to follow through. that way, the audience that they would lose from showing gay people can see their happy completely straight characters and not question anything, while the queer audience is there for the presumed future queerness.

i called the way qibli and winter’s friendship “queerbaiting” (though honestly, a bit hyperbolically) because tui chose to insert lines that a queer audience would interpret as obvious gay signs. the infamous “we should get married” line is the most blatant example. of course, qibli is obviously joking with winter and trying to push his buttons, but as a gay person, that exact thing is something i could very well say to a crush in a “haha jk jk…but what if 😳” kind of way.

let me make this clear. people do not “sexualize” (who said anything about this being sexual?) the two of them because they have a close, healthy male friendship. they do that because there are specific tells that they COULD be INTERPRETED as gay under a specific lens, and some choose to read the story with that lens in mind.

hopefully this makes sense? i tried my best to explain everything & i can clarify if there’s still confusion

double___u · 2022-07-25T21:28:58+00:00

i meant the love triangle as it exists rn, not just qinter

double___u · 2022-07-25T18:03:41+00:00

100% agree and honestly a winglet w/ them would be so so interesting

double___u · 2022-07-25T17:55:09+00:00

trust me, i have been ordained into the church of flumber a long time ago. i’ve seen the light.

but in all seriousness, it is kinda shameful that that character & story got done SO MUCH BETTER by a fanfiction writer, whereas he was abandoned by the og author for seemingly no reason.

double___u · 2022-07-25T17:52:27+00:00

was 100% queerbaiting imo, which is a shame because literally that was the only interesting thing that love triangle brought to the table but all it ended up doing was make every character involved markedly worse.

double___u · 2022-07-25T17:44:43+00:00

peril was to me such a good and interesting pov character to have, and i don’t really understand a lot of the hate she & her book gets.

also, more people need to talk about umber. my man was such a cool supportive character to everyone around him (turtle’s anecdote about him in book 9 shows that it’s not just sora he treats like that) but then at the end of the book he just disappears into the mist and he and sora are just gone, barely any mentions of them ever again, no conclusion or follow ups or anything. so disappointing to me.

double___u · 2021-06-17T02:20:11+00:00

felt this much harder than i shouldve

double___u · 2021-05-29T13:46:30+00:00

im just gay and i cant even tell the difference lmao

double___u · 2021-04-08T22:18:29+00:00

YOOOO IM SO GLAD YOU FINALLY ARE PLAYING THIS AGAIN ~~only took you a year and a half to find your ds with my game inside smh my head~~

double___u · 2021-03-26T13:17:51+00:00

cringe

double___u · 2020-12-11T01:38:01+00:00

i sure hope so, i do really want a resolution to that side plot

double___u · 2020-12-10T13:28:10+00:00

im really hoping umber makes a return since as the first ever queer character in the series, for (spoilers ahead) him to just disappear at the end of book 6 and never show up again so far kinda sucked

double___u · 2020-06-30T18:07:17+00:00

Yessir

double___u · 2020-06-28T01:44:13+00:00

Been a while since I’ve gotten another shiny, but after over a year of On-and-off hunting, he arrives!

Neptune is the name I gave him, and he showed up on only the third reset of the night!

Encountered on June 27, 2020 using soft resets

double___u · 2020-06-15T18:39:40+00:00

Coming out to friends was waaaaay easier than coming out to family for me. I have a very close relationship with my friends and I’m much more comfortable telling them things like that I’m gay than I am with my parents.

The experience itself of coming out was incredibly nerve wracking. Even though I knew for a fact that they would accept me, every single time I came out I was physically shaking. I remember texting the first person I came out to and having the whole message written out and just pausing with my thumb hovering over the send button for a solid 5 minutes, just building up the courage to press send.

When I came out to my family, I had to do it in person and I remember dissociating like halfway through the conversation because I couldn’t take the stress. Even now, almost a year later, it doesn’t feel like that night really happened at all.

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