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Really stressed and worried

I’m writing this post because I’m really scared and don’t know what else to do. Im 24 years old and I decided to perform oral sex on a guy I met at the grocery store but I have seen him on Adam 4 Adam as well a gay dating site. I went over to his place on Thursday around 6 or 7 pm and performed oral sex on him. I went to the emergency room on Saturday for pep. I been taking the medication since. I have sickle cell anemia and a cracked tooth and it’s really cracked. I was reading on the cdc and it says If a person is having oral sex and has bleeding gums, a cut, or an ulcer inside their mouth, HIV could enter their bloodstream through infected fluid. After reading this I’m really scared because my tooth is very open in the back of my mouth on the right mandible. Any answers are greatly appreciated I know I already asked but please. I don't feel well.
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He didn't cum in my mouth by the way
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Your situation involves personal contact with an object in air  ( hand, maybe blood, maybe cut, cracked teeth, bleeding gum, mouth ulcer, maybe fluids, penis,  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 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 from hiv.
The other person's status is irrelevant when you have no exposure to live virus.
The CDC scares people with fears of theoretical risks - however no one in 40 years of history has been infected from oral so how useful is their advice that it might happen one of these centuries?
Not sure why you are on PEP, but my guess is the doctor wanted to get you out of his office because you were so anxious.
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