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Exposure after broken condom
November 20th I had a one night stand with a woman. I wore a condom the whole time when exposed to the vagina. She wanted anal, so I inserted, and it obviously broke with lack of lubrication. I realized it at the time and made 3 thrusts after leaving me exposed for about 6 seconds. I had feces all over my penis. I washed it off in the shower.
I got tested a few days after and it came back negative. I started to do a lot of research about symptoms and what to expect. 3 weeks later(right in the wheel house) I came down with a cold that came on strong with sneezing, runny nose, eyes watering and a headache. 4 days after is what really scared me when I lost my appetite for 2 days. Didn't want to eat a thing which is really weird because I love to eat!!! When I finally did get my appetite back after 2 days I had diarrhea one time in the mourning.
This whole time I have been seeing this other girl and have been very cautious when we are intimate. I've wore a condom every time. Only concerns is she has gave me oral with no condom on, and I think I may have put the condom on the wrong side. The condom touched my penis head and I flipped it around thus possibly putting pre cum on the tip of the condom.
This last week she got pretty sick. She had a runny nose, watery eyes, sneezing, and her whole body was achy and had pain in her joints. She took off 3 days of work. A week later and she still has sneezing and runny nose but without body aches.
1) After brief condom breakage in insertion anal, how risky is that? I've read anal secretions carry a higher viral load than any other in the body. Are fluids hard to get up the urethra after 3 thrusts?
2) Do mine or my girls symptoms sound like ars? I know you can't judge symptoms or lack there of, but do they sometimes come on with just a few showing symptoms? Just body aches and runny nose?
I got tested a few days after and it came back negative. I started to do a lot of research about symptoms and what to expect. 3 weeks later(right in the wheel house) I came down with a cold that came on strong with sneezing, runny nose, eyes watering and a headache. 4 days after is what really scared me when I lost my appetite for 2 days. Didn't want to eat a thing which is really weird because I love to eat!!! When I finally did get my appetite back after 2 days I had diarrhea one time in the mourning.
This whole time I have been seeing this other girl and have been very cautious when we are intimate. I've wore a condom every time. Only concerns is she has gave me oral with no condom on, and I think I may have put the condom on the wrong side. The condom touched my penis head and I flipped it around thus possibly putting pre cum on the tip of the condom.
This last week she got pretty sick. She had a runny nose, watery eyes, sneezing, and her whole body was achy and had pain in her joints. She took off 3 days of work. A week later and she still has sneezing and runny nose but without body aches.
1) After brief condom breakage in insertion anal, how risky is that? I've read anal secretions carry a higher viral load than any other in the body. Are fluids hard to get up the urethra after 3 thrusts?
2) Do mine or my girls symptoms sound like ars? I know you can't judge symptoms or lack there of, but do they sometimes come on with just a few showing symptoms? Just body aches and runny nose?
MEDICAL PROFESSIONAL
As I said, "There is nothing you can say that would change my opinion that you don't have HIV or my advice about testing."
There are similarities between symptoms or ARS and influenza, but they are not identical. And no, "runny nose" is definitely not a "flu like" symptom. The term "flu like" generally is used to mean headache, muscle aches, and fever. Influenza often causes sore throat, but not much nasal congestion. It also causes cough, which is not an ARS symptom.
Feel free to report your HIV test result if you have one. Otherwise, this thread is closed.
There are similarities between symptoms or ARS and influenza, but they are not identical. And no, "runny nose" is definitely not a "flu like" symptom. The term "flu like" generally is used to mean headache, muscle aches, and fever. Influenza often causes sore throat, but not much nasal congestion. It also causes cough, which is not an ARS symptom.
Feel free to report your HIV test result if you have one. Otherwise, this thread is closed.
Dr Handsfield,
Thank you for your answer. I've been trying to get some closure to why ARS does not cause sneezing and runny nose. Doesn't most colds and flu's cause nasal congestion? Why would a runny nose not be considered a flu like symptom?
Thank you for your answer. I've been trying to get some closure to why ARS does not cause sneezing and runny nose. Doesn't most colds and flu's cause nasal congestion? Why would a runny nose not be considered a flu like symptom?
MEDICAL PROFESSIONAL
Welcome to the forum and thanks for your question. However, I really cannot add anything important to the accurate advice you received in both your question on the HIV community forum.
Since HIV is rare in women in the US and other industrialzed countries, it is unlikely your November partner had HIV (under 1 chance in 1,000, assuming she isn't a commercial sex worker, porn movie actor, or otherwise at especially high risk); and even if she did, the chance of infection during any single exposure is low. And neither your symptoms nor your current partner's symptoms are suggestive of a new HIV infection. HIV doesn't cause nasal congestion; sounds like a cold, nothing more.
Those comments answer both your questions. But the answer to your anxieties about all this for sure will never come from searching on line or asking questions on this or any other forum. Have an HIV test. Based on all you have said, I'm very confident it will be negative. Feel free to return with a comment to report the result once you are tested. But let's not have any more discussion until then. There is nothing you can say that would change my opinion that you don't have HIV or my advice about testing.
Regards-- HHH, MD
Since HIV is rare in women in the US and other industrialzed countries, it is unlikely your November partner had HIV (under 1 chance in 1,000, assuming she isn't a commercial sex worker, porn movie actor, or otherwise at especially high risk); and even if she did, the chance of infection during any single exposure is low. And neither your symptoms nor your current partner's symptoms are suggestive of a new HIV infection. HIV doesn't cause nasal congestion; sounds like a cold, nothing more.
Those comments answer both your questions. But the answer to your anxieties about all this for sure will never come from searching on line or asking questions on this or any other forum. Have an HIV test. Based on all you have said, I'm very confident it will be negative. Feel free to return with a comment to report the result once you are tested. But let's not have any more discussion until then. There is nothing you can say that would change my opinion that you don't have HIV or my advice about testing.
Regards-- HHH, MD
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