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Am I at risk? Terrified

So in November 2019 I gave a guy a blowjob, he said I caught my teeth on his dick (although I didn’t notice this) and it started bleeding, I had his blood in my mouth and it wasn’t a lot but I don’t know his HIV status. I also think I had a slight wound at the back of my gum at the time but it was small and not bleeding. We stopped but then we had sex instead and I thought this would be okay as we used a condom, but it was bleeding inside the condom. We checked after and it didn’t break but I am concerned that somehow the blood ended up inside me and on the top of the condom when he was putting it on. I asked for his HIV status and he said he hadn’t been tested in 10 years but he was confident he didn’t have it and was clean. I got a canker sore 1-2 weeks after for about a week. Is this an ARS symptom? I have been reading and apparently it is. I got no other symptoms apart from a cold 2 months later but I don’t think this is related. I have a home test kit on it’s way. I can’t stop worrying.
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You contacted his penis but it was in air and saliva so the same advice above applies.
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Thank You.
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Your situation involves personal contact with an object in air  (mouth, fluids etc. which is not a risk for hiv.) No worries, because you can't get hiv from personal contact except unprotected penetrating vaginal or anal, neither of which you did and you didn't share hollow needles to inject with which is the only other way to acquire 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. You can't get hiv when you use a condom and if a condom fails it rips apart down the seam and hangs in tatters, so that didn't happen - any blood inside came from him and stayed there since it can't crawl under the ring at the bottom.
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Thanks so much. I am just concerned about the canker sore, I rarely get them and read this is an ARS symptom ?
No, how could it be when you don't have hiv?
One of the most common sources of canker sores is your toothpaste.  It's the laurel sulfate, which might have lots of different names.  You can avoid that by buying healthier toothpastes that don't have added harmful ingredients.  Now, that's just one way lots of people get them.  It's not HIV.
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