Aa
soooo scared
i am a 22 year old male and i m not a drug user but i had a protected sexual encounter with a female partner. After the sex i took of my condom and realized that i kept my underwear on during the intercource. i quickly went home and took a shower and three weeks after i got tested by blood work. everything came back negative. well about 1 month after getting tested my sub mandibular lymph nodes and one side of my neck were swolen. i aslo have these odd black spots on my tounge alon with some weird head aches. I am worried that i caught HIV from that encounter.
thank you for youre great advise. Also i would like to state that i am on my way to Cornell in new York so i guess we'll be alumni.
MEDICAL PROFESSIONAL
Still low risk (and still time to move on) EWH
If your underwear was soaked, I'm sure the fluids were your own sweat.
BTW I wouldn't make it a habit of keeping your underwear on during sex, if you think you are somehow getting extra protection from STDs. Just keep wearing condoms and you'll be fine.
BTW I wouldn't make it a habit of keeping your underwear on during sex, if you think you are somehow getting extra protection from STDs. Just keep wearing condoms and you'll be fine.
one last question the contact with the fluid soaked undewear and my exposed penis has a low risk as well right??
MEDICAL PROFESSIONAL
I think your concerns are out of proportion to your risk. You had a single exposure to a partner of unknown risk. Your chances of having gotten HIV from this exposure are extraordinarily low. Here's why:
1, Chances are, your partner did not have HIV. Most people do not. You ahve told me nothing to make me think she was a particularly high risk partner.
2. Your chance of getting HIV, if she was infected and you had not used a condoms is less than one in 1000 per exposure.
3. You used a condom. Condoms work.
3. You have had an HIV test at 3 weeks. At two weeks about half of of tests that are going to become positive will have, at three weeks the figure is still higher..
When you put all of these facts together, your chances of being infected from the exposure you describe is less than one i a million. If you get retested in the future, you will be a little bit, but not much more sure that you are not infected. If I were you I would take the results I have, forget about your risk of having gotten infected and move on with your life. I would not get further testing.
As for your symptoms, you have seemed to missed our repeated statements that the symptoms of the ARS are TOTALLY non-specific and when people experience "ARS symptoms" they are much more likely to have something else, usually some other, more typical virus infection. When this has been studied in the US, less than 1% of persons seeking medical care for "ARS symptoms" are found to have HIV, the remainder having symptoms due to other processes. In addition, it is also important to realize that many person who acquire HIV do not experience the ARS. For a person to try to judge their HIV risk based on "ARS symptoms" is a waste of time.
Time to stop worrying and move on. EWH
1, Chances are, your partner did not have HIV. Most people do not. You ahve told me nothing to make me think she was a particularly high risk partner.
2. Your chance of getting HIV, if she was infected and you had not used a condoms is less than one in 1000 per exposure.
3. You used a condom. Condoms work.
3. You have had an HIV test at 3 weeks. At two weeks about half of of tests that are going to become positive will have, at three weeks the figure is still higher..
When you put all of these facts together, your chances of being infected from the exposure you describe is less than one i a million. If you get retested in the future, you will be a little bit, but not much more sure that you are not infected. If I were you I would take the results I have, forget about your risk of having gotten infected and move on with your life. I would not get further testing.
As for your symptoms, you have seemed to missed our repeated statements that the symptoms of the ARS are TOTALLY non-specific and when people experience "ARS symptoms" they are much more likely to have something else, usually some other, more typical virus infection. When this has been studied in the US, less than 1% of persons seeking medical care for "ARS symptoms" are found to have HIV, the remainder having symptoms due to other processes. In addition, it is also important to realize that many person who acquire HIV do not experience the ARS. For a person to try to judge their HIV risk based on "ARS symptoms" is a waste of time.
Time to stop worrying and move on. EWH
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