Welcome to our Forum. I will say categorically that there has never been a case of HIV transmission which has been documented to result from receipt of masturbation. This is true no matter what was used for lubrication (including spit) and despite the fact that it is absolutely typical for persons engaged in masturbation activities to get each others' genital secretions on one another, including in the area of the penile urethra, In your would case, in addition to the facts that I mention above, it is also worth pointing out that you do not know that your partner had HIV, a situation which makes it statistically unlikely that she had HIV at all. The long and the short of things is that your symptoms were almost certainly coincidental and unrelated to the activity that you mention. With this as background, let’s work through your questions:
1. Your lymphocyte counts are in a normal range. If anything, prednisone lowers, not raises lymphocytes while increasing PMNs.
2. During the ARS lymphocytes counts can go down or up. Trying to piece things together from a CBC is really a waste of time.
3. See above. Not only have neither of us ever seen a patient who acquired HIV in this way, there are no such reports in the medical literature.
At this time you could seek testing with a combination HIV p24 antigen/antibody test and be completely sure that you did not get HIV. Alternatively, at this time, an HIV antibody test would detect over 90% of recently acquired infections including all cases in which the ARS began more than a week ago.
I hope these comments are helpful to you. there is no need to worry. EWH
I suggested you test rather than waste your time with these non-specific measures which offer little relevant information. I am confident that if you test, you will find that you do not have HIV. There was no meaningful risk for HIV to start with. EWH
I am now worried because you are suggesting I test. Is this because of the non specific measures and I now have a risk or because you feel I had a risk. It is not clear to me. Given my facts,am I still expected to test negative?
Please reaqd my original answer. I repeat. "During the ARS lymphocyte counts can go down or up. Trying to piece things together from a CBC is really a waste of time."
I also indicated that the elevation of neutrophilis is an expected side effect of taking prednisone.
Your modest elevation of lymphocytes is not a concern. Instead of playing games with non-specific measures, please just get tested. To fixate on this is a waste of time and energy. EWH
The laboratory absolute reference ranges for Neuts is 2.0 - 7.5 and mine was 9.7
The absolutelab reference range for Lymph is 1.0 -3.5 and mine was 4.5
The absolute lab reference range for mono is 0.2 - 1.0 and mine was 1.1
From what I understand from my research one has to look at the lab reference ranges to see if the readings are elevated. Do you still consider my lymphocyte to be in normal range give these ranges? This is what really worried me is the potential lymphocytocis?.I have read online that high lymphocytes and high WBC could be a marker but I just don't know?
Thank you for your assistance/