In your situation a test at six weeks will give you totally reliable infomration about whether or not you have hIV. Your risk even without a test is less than on in 10,000. With a negative six week test your results will be less than 1 in a million.
I promise you, you are not going to be the first person I have ever heard of who got HIV from oral sex. EWH
This will be the last answer. Although it is often casued by autoimmunity, hypothyroidism does not delay development of HIV antibodies.
It is now far past time for you to get over your misplaced anxiety over possible HIV risk and move forward. Further axciety-driven quesitons will be delted without comment. Take care. EWH
Thank you Doctor! You have been a lot of help and I think you are wonderful.....thanks again.
One last question Dr. Hook, and I promise I will ask no more, you have been such a help! I have hypothyroidism (like I saw other people on here have said is an autoimmune disease)....will this delay the production of antibodies? Thank you Doctor......you are wonderful!
Hello Doctor....Here is the link of that study, in case someone else inquires about it, but if you say it has no merit, I will have to listen to you. It is http://www.utsouthwestern.edu/utsw/cda/dept37389/files/197419.html
So the only thing I wanted to know was my risk, which you said is miniscule for fellatio without ejaculation, but pre-ejaculation. Would a test after 6 or 7 weeks be pretty accurate? Or should I wait the whole 3 months....thank you doctor!
I am not familiar with the study you mention. As a result, my comment will be rather generic in its nature. Before I answer however, let me tell you that I am confident that the risk of humans getting HIV from performance of oral sex is minuscule. This statement is based on studies of thousands of human beings ads well as the fact that neither Dr. Handsfield, me, nor our colleagues when polled informally have ever seen or heard of a convincing case in which HIV was convincingly transmitted through oral sex. The CDC agrees with us as well
As for the study you saw, and please realize, I am not trying to be glib about this, monkeys are not humans and SIV is not HIV. furthermore, the presence of HIV in tissue does not necessarily translate to active infection. Sorry I don't have more detail and no matter what this paper says, the entirely of scientific experience in humans to date tells us that this is not a high risk activity. Could it happen, somewhere, sometimes - sure. Does is happen regularly, absolutely not. Does that mean that you shouldn't practice safe sex whenever possible, absolutely not.
Hope this helps. EWH