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Panic over potential STD/HIV infection
Dear Dr,
I am currently in a state of Panic over a potential HIV infection I may have suffered. I am a 33 year old Australian male currently traveling in China on business. On Wed 05/03 in Guangzhou I got heavily intoxicated with a Chinese associate and he organized a massage to come to my hotel later in the evening. The girl arrived and began the massage, she then offered to perform oral sex on me with a condom, then things moved on and we had short vaginal intercourse with the same condom as before still fitted correctly, I felt uncomfortable and she stopped and then finished me off through hand masturbation initially with the condom on but she removed it in order to speed up the process. After I cam she wiped me off with a tissue and disposed of the condom in the rubbish still intact. She shortly departed and I immediately took a bath to wash myself as I was feeling very remorseful.
I am very concerned I have contracted HIV as I have over the last day or so been having to go regularly to the toilet to pass urine and have some pressure in the area with some tingling sensation in my penis. I went to a local Doctor who thought it was a UTI and he gave me some Amoxicillin tablets to take. I have been taking these for one full day now and the pressure has eased but still need to regularly go to the toilet but I do feel it is improving. I have had some flu like symptoms for the last 24 / 48 hours but this could be due to some sudden weather changes (average temp here at the moment is 3 degrees). I am also fairly tired but I have been travelling every day from city to city which would normally make me tired.
What are my chances here, do I need to get tested and if so when because I don't want to tell my wife of my mistake and cause her pain, but I know as soon as I return she will want to return to our unprotected sex life.
Jade
I am currently in a state of Panic over a potential HIV infection I may have suffered. I am a 33 year old Australian male currently traveling in China on business. On Wed 05/03 in Guangzhou I got heavily intoxicated with a Chinese associate and he organized a massage to come to my hotel later in the evening. The girl arrived and began the massage, she then offered to perform oral sex on me with a condom, then things moved on and we had short vaginal intercourse with the same condom as before still fitted correctly, I felt uncomfortable and she stopped and then finished me off through hand masturbation initially with the condom on but she removed it in order to speed up the process. After I cam she wiped me off with a tissue and disposed of the condom in the rubbish still intact. She shortly departed and I immediately took a bath to wash myself as I was feeling very remorseful.
I am very concerned I have contracted HIV as I have over the last day or so been having to go regularly to the toilet to pass urine and have some pressure in the area with some tingling sensation in my penis. I went to a local Doctor who thought it was a UTI and he gave me some Amoxicillin tablets to take. I have been taking these for one full day now and the pressure has eased but still need to regularly go to the toilet but I do feel it is improving. I have had some flu like symptoms for the last 24 / 48 hours but this could be due to some sudden weather changes (average temp here at the moment is 3 degrees). I am also fairly tired but I have been travelling every day from city to city which would normally make me tired.
What are my chances here, do I need to get tested and if so when because I don't want to tell my wife of my mistake and cause her pain, but I know as soon as I return she will want to return to our unprotected sex life.
Jade
Dear Dr
As a brief follow up to my initial concerns above, following your advice I have been trying to put this incident behind me and to assist this I had a set of STD tests once I returned to Australia 9 days following my low risk activity all results were clear including HIV. All has been well until the last few days where I have been experiencing some mild headaches, mild thrush on my tounge and some tonsillitis symptoms (tonsil swelling and mild soreness whilst swallowing). My thought have immediately reverted to HIV given my recent activities and the various resources online suggest this May be related as an early symptom of an HIV infection.
Is this possible or is it more likely some thrush as I originally experienced some the day after starting the Chinese antibiotics whilst overseas that now may be continuing and causing my current symptoms.
This will be my last question to you on this matter if you would kindly reply.
Regards
Jade
As a brief follow up to my initial concerns above, following your advice I have been trying to put this incident behind me and to assist this I had a set of STD tests once I returned to Australia 9 days following my low risk activity all results were clear including HIV. All has been well until the last few days where I have been experiencing some mild headaches, mild thrush on my tounge and some tonsillitis symptoms (tonsil swelling and mild soreness whilst swallowing). My thought have immediately reverted to HIV given my recent activities and the various resources online suggest this May be related as an early symptom of an HIV infection.
Is this possible or is it more likely some thrush as I originally experienced some the day after starting the Chinese antibiotics whilst overseas that now may be continuing and causing my current symptoms.
This will be my last question to you on this matter if you would kindly reply.
Regards
Jade
Dear Dr,
thank you for you reply, I feel you are correct and i think i need to get over this regretful situation and move on with my lfe. I assume by your comments that you would not recommend HIV testing in this case but what about testing for other STD's, Given my UTI symptoms should i get tested for other STD's as i know some STD's mirror these symptom. The Amoxicillin capsules provided in china have made a great impact on the symptoms i no longer have the pelvic area pain and only a small amount of lower back pain that may be due to other reasons. I do also still readily go to the toilet to urinate but this has been less and less each day also with only a slight tingle in the end of my penis when i pass urine. i have had some headaches and some night sweats but they seem to be easing also.
any last comments welcome.
regards
Jamde
thank you for you reply, I feel you are correct and i think i need to get over this regretful situation and move on with my lfe. I assume by your comments that you would not recommend HIV testing in this case but what about testing for other STD's, Given my UTI symptoms should i get tested for other STD's as i know some STD's mirror these symptom. The Amoxicillin capsules provided in china have made a great impact on the symptoms i no longer have the pelvic area pain and only a small amount of lower back pain that may be due to other reasons. I do also still readily go to the toilet to urinate but this has been less and less each day also with only a slight tingle in the end of my penis when i pass urine. i have had some headaches and some night sweats but they seem to be easing also.
any last comments welcome.
regards
Jamde
MEDICAL PROFESSIONAL
Hello
from what you have said, I can't really see a risk of anything, especially HIV. You haven't done anything much - certainly not without protection.
HIV will result from having unprotected penetrative sex with someone who is HIV positive and who is not treated effectively.
In your case you had protected penetrative sex with someone of unknown HIV status. I really can't see any route to you becoming HIV positive this way - you are confusing feeling guilty with a risk.
kind regards, Sean
from what you have said, I can't really see a risk of anything, especially HIV. You haven't done anything much - certainly not without protection.
HIV will result from having unprotected penetrative sex with someone who is HIV positive and who is not treated effectively.
In your case you had protected penetrative sex with someone of unknown HIV status. I really can't see any route to you becoming HIV positive this way - you are confusing feeling guilty with a risk.
kind regards, Sean
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