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HIV from insertive oral when they have high viral load?
Hi everyone, just wanted to ask a quick few questions. I’m from the U.K. and well, 4 weeks ago I had unprotected insertive oral sex with a male I met from a sex site (stupid I know), and am extremely paranoid after this. I know the risk is at best very minimal but so far I’ve had many symptoms, including headaches, flu like symptoms, low energy, shooting pains through my armpits, elbows and knees, white coated tongue that won’t disappear and my mother even commented that I have lost weight, although that could be down to stress. Not to mention I also had small bumps around my urethra which was also swollen. I went to my doctor and he prescribed me Hydrocortisone and said it wasn’t anything serious like Herpes or Syphilis. I also got a blood test for HIV but am not sure if it was even worth it as it was about 3 weeks and 6 days after the potential exposure. I also have to mention he may have given me gonnorhea or chlamydia because several days after the encounter I had an inflamed urethra which then progressed onto an inflamed bladder which my doctor prescribed me antibiotics for, but I could not yet get tested for these STD’s as I would have to wait 2 weeks.
I’m panicking extremely as I have horrible anxiety and would just like to ask, is there any estimate for how much of a chance I have from catching HIV from this man if he performed oral sex on me with a high viral load and possibly a cut or sore in his mouth that I did not notice? Also, I was on cocaine and alcohol that night so I’m not sure if that lowered my immune system. Thanks for the help if you’re able to answer my questions.
I’m panicking extremely as I have horrible anxiety and would just like to ask, is there any estimate for how much of a chance I have from catching HIV from this man if he performed oral sex on me with a high viral load and possibly a cut or sore in his mouth that I did not notice? Also, I was on cocaine and alcohol that night so I’m not sure if that lowered my immune system. Thanks for the help if you’re able to answer my questions.
You had no hiv risk so any test will be a waste of time. Whoever told you that oral is very minimal is wrong because it is ZERO which is very different.
HIV is instantly inactivated in air and also in saliva which means it is effectively dead so it can't infect from touching, external rubbing or oral activities. It doesn't matter if you and they were actively bleeding or had cuts at the time either because the HIV is effectively dead.
Only adult risks are the following:
1. unprotected penetrating vaginal
2. unprotected penetrating anal sex
3. sharing needles that you inject with. Your situation is a long way from any of these 3.
Even with blood, lactation, cuts, rashes, burns, etc the air or the saliva does not allow inactivated virus to infect from touching, external rubbing or oral activities. The above HIV science is 40 years old and very well established so there is no detail that you can add that will make any of your encounter a risk for HIV. No one in 40 years of HIV history got HIV from the situation you are concerned about so it is unlikely that it will happen in the next 40 of your lifetime either.
HIV is instantly inactivated in air and also in saliva which means it is effectively dead so it can't infect from touching, external rubbing or oral activities. It doesn't matter if you and they were actively bleeding or had cuts at the time either because the HIV is effectively dead.
Only adult risks are the following:
1. unprotected penetrating vaginal
2. unprotected penetrating anal sex
3. sharing needles that you inject with. Your situation is a long way from any of these 3.
Even with blood, lactation, cuts, rashes, burns, etc the air or the saliva does not allow inactivated virus to infect from touching, external rubbing or oral activities. The above HIV science is 40 years old and very well established so there is no detail that you can add that will make any of your encounter a risk for HIV. No one in 40 years of HIV history got HIV from the situation you are concerned about so it is unlikely that it will happen in the next 40 of your lifetime either.
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Thank you a lot, brother. I read a lot of stuff claiming HIV can be transmitted more easily through oral if the person giving the oral has Gonnorhea and I freaked a bit. I appreciate you took the time out to comment and eased my mind a bit.
Zero times any other risk= zero.
Just one question, when you just introduced in 40 years, whoever you have a confirmed case or giving oral sex? the information is conflicting without precise data.
That is not a sentence so I have no idea what you are asking when you put a question mark at the end.
I'm sorry, English is not my first language, what I asked is if you do not have a confirmed transmission case in 40 years? because the information is very conflicting! thank you.
Perhaps you need someone to translate for you. Zero risk=no disease=time to move on from HIV.
It is true that in the 40 years of HIV history, there is not a single DOCUMENTED case of HIV. There are anecdotal stories but no proven case. Oral sex is not considered anything but a theoretical risk for HIV and is not the way anyone has ever truly gotten HIV.
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