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Used coconut oil as lube with condom

I had protected vaginal sex with sex worker in India and unprotected oral sex. But she used coconut oil on condom as lube.
I am worried that coconut oil might broke the condom. But I didn't know that my condom broke
After two weeks I am having diarrhoea really worried......
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Using coconut oil is a bad idea - it's not intended for use on genitals, and it can weaken a condom and cause it to break.  Fortunately, your condom did not break.  You would have noticed if your condom broke - it is impossible to miss that.

So, you had no risk for HIV.  
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Thank you so much for replying just want to know that what about my diahhrea. Is it not related to hiv
It CANNOT be related to HIV since you had zero risk for HIV.
Just want to ask one last thing. There was a transparent sticky thread like substance sticking on the side of condom. Is it vaginal discharge or semen. It made me worry about condom breakage.
Already answered - " You would have noticed if your condom broke - it is impossible to miss that." It rips down the seam.
What about sticky white substance
It is a waste of your time to keep ignoring the advice and keep asking the same questions that you asked before. Reread all of the advice, then move on.
20620809 tn?1504362969
Since you had protected sex, we are telling you emphatically, you had no risk. You'd know if the condom broke, it's time to move let your fears go.  
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Thank you for you response. I got worried because exactly after 2 weeks I got diarrhoea
This is ruminating about a worry and we can't keep reassuring you.  No risk applies to all thoughts you have when you ponder if you have hiv. You didn't have a risk.  
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Our members have patiently answered you that you had no risk.

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Lambskin doesn't prevent hiv transmission which is one reason why sex workers don't use them.
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Am I at risk?
That question was already answered so reread.
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Just to expand this a bit, coconut oil can damage latex condoms.  If you're using a different type of condom, coconut oil won't damage them.  The virtue of latex is it's stronger and stretches better than other materials.  But some are allergic to latex and some just don't plain like it, as it's pretty thick.  Other materials such as lambskin, polyurethane, etc. are thinner and therefore feel better during sex but are more prone to breaking, though usually they won't, and to slippage.  As for the health of the vagina, the evidence is not clear.  Coconut oil is claimed to be antibacterial, but it really isn't all that much, but it is somewhat anti-fungal, so that makes it at the same time healthy as it might prevent or limit yeast infections but it might, though this isn't proven, cause some disruption of beneficial flora that lives in the vagina.  I wouldn't personally use it, as it's really thick and you have to use virgin oil which can go bad if you don't keep it refrigerated, but if you just put oil for lube on the outside of the vagina where you actually need it for entry it's probably not a problem.  But as noted above, don't use with latex condoms, the ones that are best at preventing what you use condoms to prevent.  Personally, when I've used condoms, I've used the lambskin and the thin ones, as I like to feel what I'm doing, and I've never had a problem.  But it is more labor intensive as you have to make sure it stays on and doesn't break.  Anyhoo, just sayin;.  
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1) Lambskin condoms do not protect against HIV.
2) There is no reason to use coconut oil as sexual lube when there are plenty of products made for that exact purpose, that do not compromise  the integrity of any condom.
Sorry, I was too cryptic, that's what I meant when I said the latex is the best at preventing what this person is trying to prevent, which is the spread of infection.  Lambskin won't protect against that, and as the other thinner synthetics are also more prone to breakage, they are also therefore more likely, though how much I don't know, to end up with unprotected exposure.  I also meant to say and didn't that I used those with people I knew and was in relationships with.
The condom I used was latex one. Which made me concern that is may have broke .
Your condom's fine.  Don't freak out or get caught up in condom information.  You had protected sex and you'd know if the condom broke, you'd know. It's quite noticeable.  
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