I have gone to Tapestry of Health twice for STD/HIV testing. The first time I went, it was because…read morea recent 'ex' informed me that I should get myself tested. The second time was because I was traveling to Russia with a student visa, and Russia requires recent HIV-test results in order to obtain a visa. Both times, my experience was the same. I left the office in tears, feeling violated and ashamed. The nurse that I had for my first visit was nice, but even though I told her I'd never even been to a gynecologist and was nervous about the process of 'getting tested,' she was nonetheless rough with me. I started crying because being touched and poked by a stranger in a dingy doctor's office was unsettling. She seemed annoyed that I was crying, but then she was more cooperative with me. I needed her to explain what she was going to do before she did it so that I would not be afraid. After making me cry, she seemed to have realized that she needed to do this, and the rest of the appointment was at least not awful. My second time, more than a year later, I had a different nurse. She was impersonal, too. She failed to draw my blood for the HIV test, so she had to get a different nurse. This third nurse seemed nicer, but she decided to swab me for the STD test first, before drawing my blood for the HIV test. I explained to her that I was uncomfortable with the process, but she was just as hasty and rough as the last nurse had been when I had previously been tested! It was as if she wasn't listening to the anxiety I was trying to communicate. She frightened me so much that, when she swabbed me, I cried out in pain and alarm, and then proceeded to cry from embarrassment and nervousness. Seeing how uncomfortable I was did not make her soften at all. Maybe she just wanted me to suck it up and deal with it. I'm glad I've never been sexually assaulted or abused, because I imagine her treatment would have made me a nervous wreck if that had been the case. This nurse also struck me as unprofessional because of how she took my blood. She drew the blood competently, but I told her that the last few times I'd had my blood drawn, I'd fainted. Even knowing this, she said good-bye and left the room *as soon as she took my blood*, closing the door behind her, so that if I had fainted, no one would have known until someone noticed that I hadn't checked out. I did feel light-headed, so I had to stagger to the examination table and lie down until I came to. I'm not a psychologist and I don't understand exactly why this place horrified me so much. However, something about the nature of the services combined with the careless and crude service made me so uncomfortable that I left the office feeling, as stated before, violated and ashamed. I will NEVER go back to Tapestry of Health, at least the Huntingdon branch! And I hope the people of Huntingdon can find a better place to go, too.