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Question Regarding cunnilingus, receptive oral sex, and accuracy of 4th Gen
71 days ago exposed to menstrual blood/blood (maybe I nicked her?). Performed oral sex on her, could taste blood. Negative 4th gen test 37 days after exposure. 6.5 weeks after exposure, I came down with a mild sore throat and exhaustion. I took another 4th gen test during this, which was at 51 days, along with a flu and covid test, which all came back negative. The day after this test, the sore throat was gone and I ended up having a runny nose for the next four days. At around 65 days, I developed a rash on my neck along with slight yellow tongue. The rash has mostly subsided at this point and so has the yellowing after brushing it off. My questions are:
1) Was I at risk for HIV?
2) Should I take a third test at 3 months
3) Would 4th gen work during symptoms
4) I received oral sex at a different time as well: in relation to the tests for this exposure, test 1 was at 25 days and test 2 was at 39 days. Is receptive oral a risk?
Oral sex is zero risk for HIV so any test you take will be negative - even if blood is involved. There was never a risk here.
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Your situation involves personal contact with an object in air (body, fluids, maybe blood, cuts, mouth, 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.
"With the 4th gen, why do people say 6 weeks and not 4?" That's irrelevant; you might as well have tested to see if she made you pregnant. It is time to move on.
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.
"With the 4th gen, why do people say 6 weeks and not 4?" That's irrelevant; you might as well have tested to see if she made you pregnant. It is time to move on.
Thank you for the advice
Since you didn't answer the QUESTION I will do it for you. Answer> No there wasn't a penis in my anus and I wasn't injected with a hollow needle during the oral sex so I had zero risk and should move on from hiv fixation including any more placebo hiv testing, and should stop trying to make connections of a cold with a disease I don't have.
The only ways HIV is transmitted are to have unprotected vaginal or anal sex or to share IV needles to inject drugs. Air and saliva inactivate the virus. You were at no risk even with blood present for HIV. Ever. 4th generation tests are conclusive at 28 days post exposure and beyond so the test you didn't need to take but chose to confirmed your negative.
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With the 4th gen, why do people say 6 weeks and not 4?
They dont. The 4th gen is known for being able to get a conclusive HIV result from 4 weeks.
It's also VERY basic statistics. The chances of ALL of these being true, are almost nil:
1) The person's partner was confirmed HIV+
2) The partner transmitted HIV during a one-time event (99.95% chance of this NOT happening)
3) The 4th generation test failed to detect the HIV infection 4 weeks post-event.
There is NO reason for anyone who didn't have an encounter with someone known to be HIV+ to test further out. However, this is all academic given that the OP didn't have a risk so of course, any test taken at any time will be negative.
1) The person's partner was confirmed HIV+
2) The partner transmitted HIV during a one-time event (99.95% chance of this NOT happening)
3) The 4th generation test failed to detect the HIV infection 4 weeks post-event.
There is NO reason for anyone who didn't have an encounter with someone known to be HIV+ to test further out. However, this is all academic given that the OP didn't have a risk so of course, any test taken at any time will be negative.
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