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Possible HIV Risks?
Hello,
I have three questions regarding two scenarios that happened to me that make me think I have HIV now. Please see below...
Risk #1) About 1 month ago, while I was at a massage parlor, the girl spit on the head of my penis (in my urethra) and jerked me off with her saliva for a while. Was I at risk, even if she had blood in her saliva and it got into my urethra?
Risk #2) Also about a month and a half ago, I was at a massage parlor and another girl fingered my anus. I could not tell if she had cuts/blood on her finger because it was dark. I'm worried that her fingering me with potential blood coming from her finger while inside my anus is a risk for HIV. I've read that this is inside the anus so it could be a risk. Can you please let me know about this? This has me very worried as well.
3) Lastly, since these exposures taking place approx 1 month ago, I've developed many symptoms over the last 5 days including fever, night sweats, runny/stuffy nose, headaches, stiff neck, chest pain, cough, and fatigue. Additionally, recent bloodwork of mine showed that my WBC was a 4.9, when it has always been in the 6.5-7 range my entire life. Should I be worried about these symptoms being HIV, and the low WBC (not my normal range) being from HIV?
Thank you.
I have three questions regarding two scenarios that happened to me that make me think I have HIV now. Please see below...
Risk #1) About 1 month ago, while I was at a massage parlor, the girl spit on the head of my penis (in my urethra) and jerked me off with her saliva for a while. Was I at risk, even if she had blood in her saliva and it got into my urethra?
Risk #2) Also about a month and a half ago, I was at a massage parlor and another girl fingered my anus. I could not tell if she had cuts/blood on her finger because it was dark. I'm worried that her fingering me with potential blood coming from her finger while inside my anus is a risk for HIV. I've read that this is inside the anus so it could be a risk. Can you please let me know about this? This has me very worried as well.
3) Lastly, since these exposures taking place approx 1 month ago, I've developed many symptoms over the last 5 days including fever, night sweats, runny/stuffy nose, headaches, stiff neck, chest pain, cough, and fatigue. Additionally, recent bloodwork of mine showed that my WBC was a 4.9, when it has always been in the 6.5-7 range my entire life. Should I be worried about these symptoms being HIV, and the low WBC (not my normal range) being from HIV?
Thank you.
This answers all of your HIV questions, and if you can think of any more just reread about the 3. You had zero risk therefore testing is irrelevant to your situation because you had zero risk. HIV is a fragile virus, which is instantly inactivated in air and also in saliva which means it is effectively dead so it can't infect from touching, external rubbing or oral activities. 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 3 adult risks are the following:
1. unprotected penetrating vaginal with a penis
2. unprotected penetrating anal sex with a penis
3. sharing needles that you inject with.
The only way to get HIV is if you did one of the 3. The situation you describe is a long way from any of these 3.
Even with blood, lactation, cuts, rashes, burns, etc the air or the saliva does not allow inactivated virus to infect from touching, external rubbing or oral activities. Doctors have calculated the risk from what you describe to be less than that of being hit by a meteor, therefore no one will get HIV from what you did in the next 40 years of your life either. The above HIV science is 40 years old and very well established, so no detail that you can add to your encounter will change it from zero risk.
People cough on your lips and door knobs so fever and cough is to be expected at any time. Likely the rest of your symptoms are in your imagination from fear. WBC count is irrelevant since you don't have HIV.
Only 3 adult risks are the following:
1. unprotected penetrating vaginal with a penis
2. unprotected penetrating anal sex with a penis
3. sharing needles that you inject with.
The only way to get HIV is if you did one of the 3. The situation you describe is a long way from any of these 3.
Even with blood, lactation, cuts, rashes, burns, etc the air or the saliva does not allow inactivated virus to infect from touching, external rubbing or oral activities. Doctors have calculated the risk from what you describe to be less than that of being hit by a meteor, therefore no one will get HIV from what you did in the next 40 years of your life either. The above HIV science is 40 years old and very well established, so no detail that you can add to your encounter will change it from zero risk.
People cough on your lips and door knobs so fever and cough is to be expected at any time. Likely the rest of your symptoms are in your imagination from fear. WBC count is irrelevant since you don't have HIV.
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A couple follow up questions...How can someone's bleeding finger INSIDE my anus not be a risk for HIV? It's not outside the body. Everywhere else I look says its a risk because its inside the body. Can you please respond? Also, I've been physically sick (sore throat etc) for the last 5 days and its not in my imagination (I'm not sure what you mean by this, can you please clarify?) Thank you.
The amount of blood on a finger that would need to be present to infect you would be an amount sufficient to preclude anyone fingering you. First, you don't even know if she had a wound and you're making up "what if" scenarios, and second, if she had a wound that was actively bleeding to the point it could infect you, she would NOT be fingering you, but would be in an emergency room getting stitches.
No one has ever been infected by fingering, and you won't be the first.
No idea why you're sick. See a doctor for your non-HIV related illness. You had zero risk.
No one has ever been infected by fingering, and you won't be the first.
No idea why you're sick. See a doctor for your non-HIV related illness. You had zero risk.
People cough on your lips and door knobs so fever and cough is to be expected at any time.
I said the rest of your symptoms are likely in your imagination. If you can calm down then see if they disappear, and if not see doc as advised by Curfew.
I said the rest of your symptoms are likely in your imagination. If you can calm down then see if they disappear, and if not see doc as advised by Curfew.
I still have two more questions from your response...
1) Even if I had cuts or tears in my anus when she was fingering with some blood on her finger?
2) She also licked my anus a few times. Is this a risk if she had blood in her mouth because my anus is a mucous membrane?
1) Even if I had cuts or tears in my anus when she was fingering with some blood on her finger?
2) She also licked my anus a few times. Is this a risk if she had blood in her mouth because my anus is a mucous membrane?
Which of the only 3 risks do you feel you had? Otherwise since you don't have any medical training then you are just making up your own science fiction theory. It is unrealistic for you to feel sci-fiction that can become reality.
I just wanted to see if you could please directly answer my two remaining questions above your response, which are:
1) Even if I had cuts or tears in my anus when she was fingering with some blood on her finger, is this a risk? It's inside the body, not outside, correct?
2) She also licked my anus a few times. Is this a risk if she had blood in her mouth because my anus is a mucous membrane?
Thank you.
AnxiousNoMore 2 hrs
1) Even if I had cuts or tears in my anus when she was fingering with some blood on her finger, is this a risk? It's inside the body, not outside, correct?
2) She also licked my anus a few times. Is this a risk if she had blood in her mouth because my anus is a mucous membrane?
Thank you.
AnxiousNoMore 2 hrs
I just want you to answer my previous question, since you don't have any medical training and HIV prevention is straightforward. This is not a training ground for Google doctors who don't understand or trust biology and only trust their own science fiction.
You have been fully advised by two members that fingering is not a method of HIV transmission, no matter what. AnxiousNoMore also listed the ONLY ways that you can put yourself at risk for HIV, and neither of your events are on that list. There is nothing more for our members to say about your no-risk event.
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