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Handjob red bumps on penis

Greetings,

It's been two years since I last posted.

I test regularly for HIV and limit myself to low-risk sexual activities.  I'm also diabetic and have recurrent yeast infections due to high blood sugar.

I was recovering from a yeast infection a few days ago.  I went to hang out with a friend and another guy at a park which is also a cruising spot. We got turned on and started masturbating. My friend and the other went on playing with each other, I didn't engage. Then the other guy reached out and started masturbating me. It was a brief moment and I pulled out because I felt uncomfortable.

I noticed there were still some tiny red bumps on my foreskin due to the yeast infection.  I don't know the HIV status of my friend and the other guy. I haven't noticed if the other guy had cuts or fluids on his hands.

What's my risk?

I thought I was save. Now I regret and feel guilty about this.
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Sorry I meant hands contact in the first sentence but mistyped. I hope you can relax after understanding how hard it is to contract hiv since it is dead in air and saliva.
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Your situation involves personal contact with an object in air  (pin, fluids 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, 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. 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 say "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.

HIV can't burrow into your skin.
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The only risks for HIV have not changed since you last asked about HIV: https://www.medhelp.org/posts/HIV-Prevention/Oral-sex-with-possible-HIV-person-on-meds/show/3046842

Guilt does not equal risk, and you had zero risk.
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