There is no connection between B12 and HIV transmission risk or the reliability of HIV testing.
This is the sort of question you should be asking of your doctor, not here. I said this thread is over. This is not a counseling service for people with unreasonable anxieties who cannot or will not accept the advice they already received. If you post anything else at all, the entire thread will be deleted without further reply. And do not start a new thread with the same questions, which would meet the same fate, without refund of the posting fee.
Doctor,
Please excuse me for starting this thread again. I was very much convinced that i would not get hiv from the activities that i had mentioned in my previous posts. But recently i had got a general blood checkup done by my primary care physician and to my surprise we found that vitamin B12 content in my blood was low. The doctor is also clueless of what would have caused this. Could you please let me know if
hiv infection can bring down the vitamin B12 level in blood. I'm really very worried. Please help me.
For watever activities i had mentioned its been five months only.
See my reply above: "Your symptoms do not suggest HIV". Tingling of the sort you describe is usually a physical manifestation of anxiety, sometimes specifically due to hyperventilation. It it not an HIV symptom.
This thread is over. Accept the reassurance you have been given and move on. If there are any more comments, this thread will be deleted. Do not try starting a new thread with the same questions; it would meet the same fate, without reply.
Thanks Doctor for your responses. I just wanted to know if tingling palms is a symptom of hiv/std. I'm getting this tingling sensation in both my hands especially in the palms.
Please clarify
Although I am answering your question, it is not because you requested me by name. Dr. Hook and I take questions interchangably, without regard to requests for one of us or the other.
Questions about hand-genital transmission and non-intercourse exposures in massage parlors are among the most common of all questions on this forum. You could have saved the posting fee by reading the important Disclaimer message and searching for other questions like yours.
As for all the other similar questions: HIV is not transmitted by hand-genital contact, and the large majority of women who give massages in commercial parlors do not have HIV anyway. Your symptoms do not suggest HIV. You did not require HIV testing after this event, but in any case your negative result at 1 months is strong evidence you did not catch HIV. You were not at risk for HIV and do not need further testing.
Regards-- HHH, MD