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I had a possible exposure to hiv and am stressed out.
5 weeks ago met a girl and she came to my hotel room. We kissed and then I licked her for a min and then she performed oral on me. We then kissed a bit more while I played with her. But we never really had intercourse. About two weeks later I started having burning on my face and night chills so went bought a oraquick mouth swab test which was negative on day 16 then exactly 22 days past that I noticed very few red bumps on my trunk, arms and legs, minor night sweats and swollen lymph nodes in my armpits but no fever ever. I went to my dr that day and told him, he said I had a very low risk exposure but did a quick blood test from my fingure and a hepatitis c test. Both were negative. A few days later the bumps were gone and my lymph nodes reduced and soreness went away but now just over 5 weeks I am got a mouth ulcer and my armpits feel like they are burning. I pretty much have to go back for a follow up test just to ease my mind from paranoia but does anyone think that my tests could have been in the window period and still seeing seroconversion symptoms?
You had no risk of HIV because you can't get HIV from oral activities or from touching it. You were so safe that you don't need to test.
HIV is instantly inactivated in air and also in saliva which means it is effectively dead so it can't infect from oral activities or from touching it. 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 adult risks are unprotected penetrating vaginal or anal sex or sharing needles that you inject with but you didn't do that so you had no risk. This sentence is all you need to know to protect yourself against HIV.
Even with blood, lactation, cuts, rashes, burns, etc the air or the saliva does not allow inactivated virus to infect from oral activities or from touching it. The above HIV science is 40 years old and very well established so nothing you can add will make your situation a risk.
No one got HIV from oral activities or from touching it in 40 years of HIV history, so likely no one will in the next 40 years of your life either.
Your symptoms are likely in your imagination or else minor like the mouth ulcer that anyone can get. Since you had zero risk, your doctor is wrong calling it a "low risk" HIV exposure, so consider finding a better one in future.
HIV is instantly inactivated in air and also in saliva which means it is effectively dead so it can't infect from oral activities or from touching it. 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 adult risks are unprotected penetrating vaginal or anal sex or sharing needles that you inject with but you didn't do that so you had no risk. This sentence is all you need to know to protect yourself against HIV.
Even with blood, lactation, cuts, rashes, burns, etc the air or the saliva does not allow inactivated virus to infect from oral activities or from touching it. The above HIV science is 40 years old and very well established so nothing you can add will make your situation a risk.
No one got HIV from oral activities or from touching it in 40 years of HIV history, so likely no one will in the next 40 years of your life either.
Your symptoms are likely in your imagination or else minor like the mouth ulcer that anyone can get. Since you had zero risk, your doctor is wrong calling it a "low risk" HIV exposure, so consider finding a better one in future.
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Really? No risk and not a low risk? So much different statements on that. If there was any risk can either test within 3 weeks be accurate?
Zero risk is the opinion of the expert doctors (which your doctor is not) we rely on and your situation is straightforward so there is nothing to test for. Reread the 40 part.
Well I’m not even sure anymore maybe we did have vaginal intercourse, so stressed about it all and so sick. Not sure what to think anymore but you didn’t answer if you thought either test would be accurate at that time.
If you are so stressed that you can't tell if you had sex then it is time to talk to a therapist.
Yeah I agree. 5 weeks of stress over hiv has made me sick and now I am having serious health issues.
Here's the summary from a pretty well-known study involving couples with one HIV+ partner and one HIV- partner. In 19,000+ instances of oral sex, not a single HIV- partner contracted HIV.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/12045500?dopt=Abstract
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/12045500?dopt=Abstract
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