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Risk of exposure from deep kissing with blood from vomit

Hi,

I am writing in to enquire about something stupid i did.

I went to a pub and engaged in some open mouth kissing with one of the hostesses. Halfway through, she had to go to the toilet to puke due to overdrinking. She was in there for 10 mins (dont know what she did in there) and smoked a cigarette before coming back. We did continue drinking and kissing after awhile. This happened a few times. Now that i am reading forums that HIV can survive on blood for quite some time, is there a way that there was alot of blood in the vomit and it was still in her mouth and when we kissed, it got into my gums that might have been bleeding, i am very worried about this.

I also read that people on ART vomit alot from side effects so maybe she was positive, would that have made a difference?

Can you please access my risk for this incident? My elisa came back reactive but wb negative at 4 weeks. i am very nervous about the whole episode now.

Thanks!
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Even if there was blood involved while you kissed someone, there is no risk associated with this event. Injesting infected fluid is not an effective route to HIV transmission. Saliva and gastric acid inhibits the virus.

Newer generation of HIV test are very sensitive and false positives do happen a few times. Specificity of these tests are said to be at 99.6%, out of 1000 times tests are run 996 would be accurate result with 4 result being false positive.

False-positive test results can occur due to technical issues associated with the test or biological causes.

If the aforementioned was the only 'exposure', you need not worry about infection.
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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. 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. 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.
If you didn't have one of the 3 then you are just worrying about your own hiv theory - which is unrealistic for you to think that can become reality - so you should move on back to your happy life instead.
The first step to peace is to quit googling for death cold turkey because you aren't a medical professional and don't know how to read technical medical articles or to determine when you are reading something that is theoretical which has never manifested in 40  years of history.
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It is not surprising your test came back negative since it is impossible to get hiv from what you did. You might as well have tested to see if her kisses made you pregnant.
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