Any time. Regardless of what the hotlines stated, expert physicians in the field do not consider oral sex to be a risk. Therefore, any test you take at any time will be negative.
If you must test - only to alleviate anxiety, and not because you had a risk - a 4th or 5th generation test at 28 days post-event will be conclusive. If you do test, it will be negative. As an aside, night sweats alone, without other symptoms, would not be a symptom of HIV.
Please don't worry about what most HIV hotlines have to tell you reading from computers through their scripts.
As stated by CurfewX, majority of experts won't consider oral sex as risk, also there have been numerous studies to support that.
Ingesting infected fluid is not the correct route of transmission as presence of gastric acid and saliva can inhibit the virus.
Your symptoms are unrelated to HIV since you were never exposed, a very large population of posters here complain about similar symptoms in spite of non exposures, they are mostly classic anxiety symptoms. Practically speaking, your chances of getting struck by meteoroid tonight is astronomically higher than acquiring HIV from your event.
It's advisable to move on from this without any worry.
Thank you both! This helped calming me a lot. I know it's useless to discuss symptoms, but perhaps you could answer one more question. Night sweats alone are not a symptom, I understand, but could other symptoms like a fever or swollen lymph nodes be there without me noticing them? At no point over the past weeks have I been unable to go to work or anything. Just wondering if it might be a possibility. The night sweats were rather intense which is why I freaked out in the first place. Other than that my right knee felt hot for a couple of days last week. Sorry for asking a symptom-related question!
Thank you very much! It feels good to read such confident assessments while I’m quite distressed! I hope you are all right.
Hi all! A follow up question (apologies for going on about this). Over here HIV organizations make a distinction between oral sex with swallowing and oral sex without. The latter is believed to be of no concern whatsoever, whereas the former is considered not entirely safe. Am I correct to believe that in this forum, experts don’t make this distinction?
Thanks! I think it’s so bewildering how far assessments diverge from one another. Thanks for your input. I do hope my night sweats are caused by anxiety.
Thank you, that makes sense. There are a couple of older threads on this forum where doctors mention the risk from oral to be 1/10,000 — based on the latest research you mention, would you say that estimate is too high? Or is it just another way of making the same claim?
Hi all! Sorry for bothering you again. I was just wondering if it would change your assessments of my situation if I started feeling a metallic taste in my mouth. Have you ever heard of that in relation to HIV? Thanks.
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