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Chances of getting infected
I happed to have viginal sex with a Thai sex worker.For my bad luck and shock i recognised that the condum has reptured. I realised about this only when i pulled out of her.So not very sure how long i got exposed inside the vigina. This is first and the only time i am having sex with anyone else other than my wife.
3 days after this inscident i started feeling itchy behind my ears, neck sometimes on chest etc. If i itch a mosquito bite like lump appears which will dissappear if i do'nt touch it for long time. I also feel itchy at different parts of the body but if do'nt touch anywhere then no rash appear. Today is the 11th day and i still get this itchy feeling . This is not continiouis but appears often. Ofcourse i am anxsioius and too courious about the ARS symptoms.
I know i have to wait for the testing to really conclude on any openion.
But please give me some inputs on what is the chances that you can get infected on a similar situation like me imagining the sex worker was HIV infected? Does the only one contact will 100 % transfer the infection?. Had it not been tranferred then why this itching feeling and rashes after 3 days from that inscident?. So does it mean that I am already infected ?. Till now i do'nt have fever or any other symptoms. But is this rash alone a positive sigh of infection?
I am normally very healthy and hygenic person. I never had this kind of irritation on skin before. So will this be for sure an ARS . Is there any other chances that I can get similar rashes due to some other infection than HIV?
And the last quetions. Is there any possiblity that you get some STD but not HIV so that you can get treated and cured to get a normal life back?
Please advice .
3 days after this inscident i started feeling itchy behind my ears, neck sometimes on chest etc. If i itch a mosquito bite like lump appears which will dissappear if i do'nt touch it for long time. I also feel itchy at different parts of the body but if do'nt touch anywhere then no rash appear. Today is the 11th day and i still get this itchy feeling . This is not continiouis but appears often. Ofcourse i am anxsioius and too courious about the ARS symptoms.
I know i have to wait for the testing to really conclude on any openion.
But please give me some inputs on what is the chances that you can get infected on a similar situation like me imagining the sex worker was HIV infected? Does the only one contact will 100 % transfer the infection?. Had it not been tranferred then why this itching feeling and rashes after 3 days from that inscident?. So does it mean that I am already infected ?. Till now i do'nt have fever or any other symptoms. But is this rash alone a positive sigh of infection?
I am normally very healthy and hygenic person. I never had this kind of irritation on skin before. So will this be for sure an ARS . Is there any other chances that I can get similar rashes due to some other infection than HIV?
And the last quetions. Is there any possiblity that you get some STD but not HIV so that you can get treated and cured to get a normal life back?
Please advice .
Thanks a lot for that piece of advice.
I do'nt want to shy away from facts. I will definitly be doing test at 3 months and 6 months before I conclude me negative. It is just get a better hope i asked the question after my 7 week test. I just wanted to know whether it is a good hint or just not atall a hint and will have to wait till 3 weeks to get some clarity .
Thanks a lot once again. your advice soothens me a lot. I will be updating my test results here so that atleast i will be a sample of information for others who are going through the same mental trauma.
All you guys are doing a great job here be helping each other.
I do'nt want to shy away from facts. I will definitly be doing test at 3 months and 6 months before I conclude me negative. It is just get a better hope i asked the question after my 7 week test. I just wanted to know whether it is a good hint or just not atall a hint and will have to wait till 3 weeks to get some clarity .
Thanks a lot once again. your advice soothens me a lot. I will be updating my test results here so that atleast i will be a sample of information for others who are going through the same mental trauma.
All you guys are doing a great job here be helping each other.
Curious, while Teak says 12 to 13 weeks, as well as other people, Dr. HHH says 6 weeks is conclusive. So you really can only get different opinions from this forum. Considering every website that talks about this issues says 3 months, thats what I would go with. However, my medical doctor and Dr. HHH as well as other people in this forum believe 6 weeks is very accurate. So that negative result you had at about 7 weeks should be very reassuring and you probably shouldnt worry anymore. Just test at 13 weeks again to be absolutely sure. According to Dr. HHH, its hard for a man to get HIV from unprotected vaginal sex with a woman who IS HIV positive. I think its something like 1 in 2000 for 1st time exposure. Whether its true or not, its giving me a lot of hope. And I also had SO MANY symptoms after my exposure to, and I am now convinced im negative after I was convinced I was positive. Also so many other people on here complain about symptoms and they never end up having HIV. Hopefully this makes you feel better.
Yes i would be definitly testing at this time. But many of the threads were commenting that a negative result after 6 weeks are encouraging and giving more probabilty for not getting infected. So i just wanted to check with my kind of exposure can i also count an some more chance of not getting infected.
From you comment Teak can i conclude that this test was no indication and just a blunt as any early test. So i still have the same amount of risk as i was having till i get a negative on 13th week ?
From you comment Teak can i conclude that this test was no indication and just a blunt as any early test. So i still have the same amount of risk as i was having till i get a negative on 13th week ?
Yes i would be definitly testing at this time. But many of the threads were commenting that a negative result after 6 weeks are encouraging and giving more probabilty for not getting infected. So i just wanted to check with my kind of exposure can i also count an some more chance of not getting infected.
From you comment Teak can i conclude that this test was indication and just a blunt as any early test. So i still have the same amount of risk as i was having till i get a negative on 13th week ?
From you comment Teak can i conclude that this test was indication and just a blunt as any early test. So i still have the same amount of risk as i was having till i get a negative on 13th week ?
If you would have read their sheet it states, that the test my not pick up early exposure. You need to test at 12/13 weeks.
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