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Oral Sex with Pos Partner - Sores in mouth

Oral Sex with Pos Partner - Sores in mouth

I recently engaged in protected anal and unprotected oral sex with an HIV positive partner.  I know oral sex is generally considered low risk enough to not be a a factor to worry about much.  However, I have had a rather large canker sore in my mouth that, while starting to heal, is still certainly there.  Also, I bit my tongue yesterday and although that was small.

Since oral sex is considered very low risk (I have read one statistic stating 1 out of 10,000 exposures will result in infection), is oral sex with a sore such as a canker sore enough to move it from "low risk" to "moderate" or even "high risk" with a known-infected partner?

Should I be concerned at what I did?  Should I avoid this?  Or is it likely not to be an issue?

Thanks
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Risks are always estimated assuming a positive partner. If the partner is a known negative, then there is no risk at all, no matter what kind of sex you are involved with. Oral sex is not a low risk,,, but a NO RISK behavior, you can not contract HIV via unprotected oral, however other STD's, including Herpes can be picked up via oral.
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Canker sores are not in ARS symptoms. This does not seem to be an issue.
I wish you the best!
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I'm not concerned that my canker sore was an ARS symptom (I recently just tested negative last week).  

My concern was (is) that a canker sore present in my mouth would make HIV transmission orally possible.  It seems logical considering the presence of broken flesh in the mouth.  

However, I wasn't sure if this would still be an issue or not.

Thanks for the responses thus far.
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No canker sores do not make HIV possible to transmit from oral sex. You don't contract HIV from oral sex.
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I cant understand how can you say that oral sex is not a way of getting hiv. I saw in another posts that you correct cool guy about this.

HIV has a very low but not 0 risk for HIV. If you have bleeding gums, sore throats or any lessions, hiv can make its way to enter an infect you.

IT`s true that the risk is very low but not zero risk.

Its also true that saliva makes the mouth an unestable enviroment for hiv, but that`s not 100% effective.

Im a person who has an oral exposure and im afraid too for gettin hiv... in fact im terrified. But i cannot invent that i have no risk at all.

By saying those things you are putting lots of bloggers in danger of contracting hiv cause the will think their risk is 0.

"The body" is de most reliable forum on internet. Please dont think its zero risk...

The fact that we cant see cirus doesnt mean that the dont exist.

Greetings..
Constanza
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