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Wound from cyrotherapy

Hi I had cyrotherapy a month ago but the wounds on my penis and scrotum havn't fully healed yet. They remain red and pink , and slightly tender. There is not blood or pus coming out from them now.

I don't think those areas will return back to normal anytime soon.. So I want to confirm, there will be no hiv risk if I have protected vaginal & unprotected oral now, even those wound won't be covered by condom right? Thanks
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You have a TON of posts. I know that in at least one of them, you were told what the risks for HIV are. Only unprotected vaginal or anal sex with penetration and sharing IV drug needles to inject drugs are risks for transmission. So, no matter what kind of procedure and healing and wound you have on your penis, if you use a condom for penetration, no risk. Oral, no risk. That doesn't change.
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Sorry but I thought it was worth asking since I could not really find any post regarding cyrotherapy wound and hiv transmission
Your situation involves personal contact with an object in air  ( body, fluids, vagina while using condom,  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.
It is ILLOGICAL to search for hiv data on everything you can think of that happens in your life ( in this case a cryotherapy wound) when there are only 3 ways to get hiv. Seek therapy because your hiv fixation anxiety is a bit of a mental health issue and this forum can't treat that.
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