Potential risk? Should I be concerned?

[tande123]

Hi
I recently had sex on NYE night with a girl I met from a dating app. We had mostly protected sex but one of my condoms did split and I was not protected. I only realised the condom had split after I withdrew my penis from her.

What's got me worried, is that this girl told me she got spiked with a needle at the end of October in a nightclub. She said it made her very sick for a couple of weeks. This needle spiking seems to be a trend going around in nightclubs in my country.

She also told me she had been tested 6 weeks following this event and everything came back negative. She even showed me the test results.

But obviously, I'm still concerned I may have been exposed due to the ripped condom. Its only been about 36hours since this happened. I was wondering if I should seek medical advice??

Thanks

[CurfewX]

Weird.  I've not heard of any "needle spiking" trend in any country, but in any case, if she didn't have another risk between that incident and her 6-week test, she doesn't have HIV.

[tande123]

Yes, needle spiking is a trend in the UK. There's many articles on Google about it. But thanks for your reassurance on this matter

[AnxiousNoMore]

A duo is conclusive after 4 weeks so if that's what she took she is conclusively negative. Any other requires 3 months. However it's unlikely that anyone spiking will do it quickly with the same syringe to different people because the chance of getting caught increases so much - if she even was spiked, which is unproven as the cause of her sickness.
If concerned you can test but the chances are practically zero so I wouldn't worry while waiting.

[tande123]

I believe she became ill after she was spiked by the needle. She even reported it to the police. Apparently its quite common in the UK. But I'm not sure what sort of test she took. I'll maybe test after a few months but thanks for reassuring me

[tande123]

So you don't think I need PEP?

[GuitarRox]

You don't need pep. Reserve that for penetrating sex with someone KNOWN to have HIV. She doesn't. The risk is less than one percent for a one time condom break. Very unlikely you contracted hiv from this. Test at 28 days with a 4th generation DUO test but expect it to be negative.

[AnxiousNoMore]

hiv is dead in air and whatever substance is injected, so the shared spiking would have to be done fairly quickly to cause the tiny amount of blood that might be in the syringe from injection #1 to create an hiv risk. I forgot to mention that, when I said I can't imagine someone would be able to quickly spike her after they had injected another person. Seems unlikely in a bar scenario, because injection is painful so anyone getting that would be looking at the injector and yelling so he would have to run away.