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Went to a strip club October 2nd, VIP room was kissing the stripper (had tooth removed week before). She then performed oral sex on me until I finished in her mouth. 8 days later I got really sick so I started to worry a bit. I got a STD and HIV blood draw lab 4th generation on October 17th. Negative for HIV, pee test negative gonnie and syph. I felt fine after that but test was too early. November 17th I got a rapid hiv test third generation and was negative but these tests I believe are still too early. I need advice because the wait for 3 months is hard. I would lab draw 4th generation again but that was too expensive the first time I did it. CDC says low risk but risk higher if cuts or dental work.
Your situation involves personal contact with an object in air (maybe blood, maybe cuts, lips, dental work, saliva, mouth touching penis or vagina, etc. ) . You will be happy to learn that you had no risk, because you can't get hiv from personal contact except unprotected penetrating vaginal or anal with a penis, neither of which you did and you didn't share hollow needles to inject with which is the only other way to acquire hiv - there are ONLY 3 ways to get hiv. Note that 2 of them require a penis and the third requires a hollow injecting shared needle - there are no OTHER ways to get hiv. Analysis of large numbers of infected people over the 40 years of hiv history has proven that people don't get hiv in the way you are worried is a risk.
Hiv is a fragile virus in air or saliva and is effectively instantly dead in either air or saliva so the WORST that could happen is dead virus rubbed you, and obviously anything which is dead cannot live again so you are good. Blood and cuts would not be relevant in your situation since the hiv has become effectively dead, so you don't have to worry about them to be sure that you are safe.
There is no reason for a person to test when they are safe. The advice took into consideration that the other person might be positive, so move on and enjoy life instead of thinking about this non-event. hiv prevention is straightforward since there are only 3 ways you can become infected, so next time you wonder if you had a risk, ask yourself this QUESTION. "Did I do any of the 3?" Then after you ANSWER "No, I didn't" you will know that it's time to move on back to your happy life.
No one got hiv from what you did during 40 years of hiv history and no one will get it in the next 40 years of your life either. You can do what you did any time and be safe from hiv.
The other person's status is irrelevant when you have no exposure to live virus.
If you still have questions about your risk, after reading all of the above, then it is because you didn't answer the QUESTION above.
It is time to move on from this non-event, which naturally seemed like a risk to you, but isn't a risk.
It is unfortunate that the CDC likes to scare people with theoretical risks that have never ACTUALLY happened in 40 years of hiv history , so how useless is that!
Hiv is a fragile virus in air or saliva and is effectively instantly dead in either air or saliva so the WORST that could happen is dead virus rubbed you, and obviously anything which is dead cannot live again so you are good. Blood and cuts would not be relevant in your situation since the hiv has become effectively dead, so you don't have to worry about them to be sure that you are safe.
There is no reason for a person to test when they are safe. The advice took into consideration that the other person might be positive, so move on and enjoy life instead of thinking about this non-event. hiv prevention is straightforward since there are only 3 ways you can become infected, so next time you wonder if you had a risk, ask yourself this QUESTION. "Did I do any of the 3?" Then after you ANSWER "No, I didn't" you will know that it's time to move on back to your happy life.
No one got hiv from what you did during 40 years of hiv history and no one will get it in the next 40 years of your life either. You can do what you did any time and be safe from hiv.
The other person's status is irrelevant when you have no exposure to live virus.
If you still have questions about your risk, after reading all of the above, then it is because you didn't answer the QUESTION above.
It is time to move on from this non-event, which naturally seemed like a risk to you, but isn't a risk.
It is unfortunate that the CDC likes to scare people with theoretical risks that have never ACTUALLY happened in 40 years of hiv history , so how useless is that!
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Haha yeah that is why I was confused. They take so long to update is sad. Thank you for the updated information!
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