Vaginal Fluids to Healing Surgical Wound

[Herren]

I saw a CSW and had protected oral and vaginal sex. Normally not worried about that, however I had a 9-week healing surgical wound from an inguinal hernia a few inches above the base of my penis. As the CSW rode me, what are the risks of vaginal fluid finding it’s way into the healing wound at the surgical site?

I noticed that morning, a few hours before this event that a scab had been torn off. Stupidly I did not put a bandaid over it.

It’s been 20 days and I am having a lot of joint pain and stiffness. Should I test for HIV?

[Sara_MHModerator]

Your question has been fully answered in this and your other threads about what is and is not a risk. This was not a risk for HIV. We are closing this discussion.

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[mike_no]

Firstly, it's practically not possible to get infected in that fashion. I would have been bit concerned if there was a huge gapping wound that happened right now to expose vulnerable cells inside of the body, it was profusely bleeding and it came in contact with the infected body fluid.

Secondly, the moment infected fluid establishes contact with the external environment, it degrades viral DNA as well as the lipids that make up the virus' shell, rendering it incapable of attaching to and infecting other cells.

You don't have a risk, there was no scope of transmission. No testing necessary.

As stated to you already, your symptoms are irrelevant to HIV.

[Herren]

I don’t know. Cuts get infected pretty easily everywhere else, not sure why this would be so different. If nothing was happening I might agree, but it’s 21 days today and the symptoms are scary.

I’m having lots of pains in my feet, back, hands, shoulders, back of neck, face and joints. Lump in my throat. Sores on back of my tongue and my groin feels swollen. Lymph nodes?

Generally feel tired and run down past few days. Do ARS symptoms come all at once or do they pickup over time? Do they always include a fever, rash, or is it completely different for everyone?

[Chima7]

Cuts get infected easily because bacteria is everywhere on everything and if a cut or wound isn't properly cleaned and dressed then it will get infected by bacteria. But HIV is a virus, a very fragile virus, which requires very specific and controlled environment in which to replicate. It cannot survive outside a living host, which is why exposure to air and any other outside environment will render it inactive and unable to infect. You literally have no HIV concerns here at all. But since there are a ton of bacteria out in the world that can easily attach to any living or non living thing and cause an infection, then you should be a lot more worried about that.

[Chima7]

Two months is plenty of time for a wound like that to heal. The fact that there was a scab there proves that it had already been in the healing stage. Added to that, HIV is only able to infect inside the body, so the only way this scenario could be a risk is if you didn't use a condom and had unprotected penetrative sex with her, which you did not. Being exposed to any body fluids outside the body is not a risk. The joint pain and stiffness is totally irrelevant.

[Herren]

In most places it is just a scar, but the part closer to my penis has been more diffficult to heal. Even now it routinely scabs and then reopens with a little blood. I didn’t see any blood that morning but the scab was definitely off.

Just worried that her vagina and thus fluids rubbed against it. Wouldn’t that be more direct transfer to that wound?