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Oral sex on inflammed urthera and sore on tip of my penis

I recieved oral sex from an unkown person while my urethra was inflammed. I had a sore on the tip of my penis and inside. I did not know that it was inflammed and i did not feel i had a sore, until the next 2 days. Am i at risk for hiv if the person performed on me was hiv+?
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Long story short, saliva contains proteins and a low salt content that actively inhibits the virus. Also, post consumption of semen or other infected fluid the gastric acid in the stomach inhibits the virus.

Therefore, consumption of infected fluid or the viral contact with the digestive system is not an effective scope for transmission. The virus needs to establish contact with the nervous system for infection.

Now, as stated by ANM, you should stop playing doctor and switch your phone off to online HIV searching. You had no risk, no testing necessary.
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Oral sex is not a risk for HIV even if you have an inflamed urethra.  Saliva and air inactivate the virus.  So, this is no risk. Unless you have unprotected vaginal or anal intercourse or sharing IV drug needles, you won't have to worry about HIV.
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Even if the oral sex was more than an hour? As well, if the inflammation was an std/because of an std or something similar would it matter?
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This answers all of your HIV questions, and if you can think of any more just reread about the 3. You had zero risk therefore  testing is irrelevant to your situation because you had zero risk. HIV is a fragile virus, which 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 3 adult risks are the following:
1. unprotected penetrating vaginal with a penis
2. unprotected penetrating anal sex with a penis
3. sharing needles that you inject with.
The only way to get HIV is if you did one of the 3. The situation you describe 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. Doctors have calculated the risk from what you describe to be less than that of being hit by a meteor, therefore no one will get HIV from what you did in the next 40 years of your life either. The above HIV science is 40 years old and very well established, so no detail that you can add to your encounter will change it from zero risk.
Another question is i dont understand why oral sex is zero risk when its almost the same as anal/vaginal sex because the penis penetrates the mouth and touches the tonsil and uvula which contains blood/fluids and mucous membrane ..? I dont understand exactly why its a low/zero risk. Couldnt the fluids from these parts of the mouth enter the penis without containing saliva(since the penis penetrates deeper than the mouth where it contains saliva) and not being exposed to air?  Dont get me wrong, but i am trying to understand and to stop worrying too much.
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You aren't a scientist so it is surprising that you have decided that you can become an hiv expert just from Googling and asking questions around the internet.
All that matters is that it is not necessary for you to understand the science for it to be true, and this is just an hiv prevention forum, so no one here has the time to conduct a biology course for curious laymen who would like to become doctor equivalent.
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