Last answer- yes, my original answer did consider the possiblity of blood on the bed sheets. End of thread. EWH
Did you original response take into consideration the blood on the bed sheets that were related to menstruation from the woman's part?
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I will update you in the following weeks.
Thank you for your time and patience.
Tests for gonorrhea taken at any time more than 24 hours after your exposure will be reliable. EWH
Can I go get tested for the STDs that you mentioned right away? Or should I wait a couple of days / weeks?
Can I go get tested for the STD that you mentioned right away? Or should I way a couple of days / weeks?
Welcome to the Forum. To restate your question, you are concerned that you may be at risk for an STD (including HIV) from performance of cunnilingus on the woman you describe. You are correct that there should be no risk to you from her performance of condom protected oral sex on you, nor from condom protected genital contact.
Let's start with oral sex. The quoted figure for HIV risk, if one has oral sex with an infected partner is less than 1 in 10,000 and, in my estimation that is too high. Some experts state there is no risk at all from oral sex. Neither of us on this site have ever seen or reading the medical literature of a convincing instance in which HIV was passed by oral sex. This includes by all of the people who had gum disease (bleeding), mouth sores, etc. I no longer even recommend HIV testing for persons such as you whose only exposure is oral sex.
As for other STDs, the major STD to test for is gonorrhea. Occasionally (but not often) gonorrhea is spread to others through oral sex. The likelihood of this is low- most people, even most commercial sex workers do not have gonorrhea and most exposures to infected partners do not result in infection. Cunnilingus in particular has a particularly low risk of transmission. Chlamydia is too rare to be a concern and unless there were lesions present, there is no risk for syphilis or for herpes.
I hope this comment is helpful. This was a very, very low risk exposure. EWH
The coughing was the two last weeks prior to the encounter*
I can't stop thinking about this.