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Potential Exposure: Do I need to get tested
I was recently in Vegas on Spring Break. When I got there had been dealing with some allergies and had been couching up yellow phlegm. My lips were chapped from sun tanning. That night, my friends and I went to a strip club. The stripper performed unprotected oral sex on me for about 20 seconds, rubbed her leg against my penis, and jerked me off. I am concerned about potential exposure, especially given my chapped lips and that I wasn't fully healthy at the time. I have read that the risk is very low for kissing and being the partner receiving the oral sex. My friends tell me I am worrying about nothing. I already scheduled an STD test for non-HIV stds for the following week. I am having trouble determining if I need an HIV test. Thanks.
MEDICAL PROFESSIONAL
Yes, you are "wrong on this". Get this straight: HIV is hard to catch. Chapped lips are extremely common, so it stands to reason millions of people with chapped lips have been exposed to HIV infected people by kissing or oral sex. Yet catching HIV orally is vanishingly rare and never occurs by kissing.
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My question is not if that is a symptom but rather if all five layers of skin did come off, would my lips have to be bleeding? Couldn't the skin just come off and they be red exposing the mucous membrane without any type of bleed? My skins were bright red and the skin that was growing back could be moved with your tounge. If the membrane was exposed wouldn't that put me in danger? Am I just wrong on this?
Thanks a lo
Thanks a lo
NO!!! You had NO risk.
And chapped lips are not a symptom. End of Story!
And chapped lips are not a symptom. End of Story!
Last question!!!! Still very anxious. My lips were chapped, peeling, and bright red, does that make any difference, the peeling? After this, I will be able to put my concerns to rest. Your advice really helped. But I don't know if you included peeling as a symptom of chapped lips.
My lips were peeling and chapped, does that make a differnece?
Thanks for the response. The fact that I was dealing with allergy/sinus infection wouldn't affect things either? Thanks so much. You're the best!
Also, I was worried about having a lower immune system from my sinus infection/allergy problem.
Thanks so much. I was just really worried about my really chapped lips. And if the kissing the stripper could lead some type of infection through my lips. For instance, if she had some type of outbreak. Thanks for the answer. I really appreciated this.
Hell, you could have paid me $15.00 to give you the answer...or ....just look through the numerous threads regarding the bazillion and one similar "stripper" situations.
Listen to your friends....there was NO risk.
Listen to your friends....there was NO risk.
MEDICAL PROFESSIONAL
Your friends are right: indeed you are worrying over nothing. Receiving oral sex is not an HIV risk, or too low to measure; and of course chapped lips cannot increase the risk of genital exposure. Even if you kissed the stripper, that's not a risk either, regardless of chapped lips.
From a medical or risk assessment perspective, you definitely do not need testing for HIV. But since you're anxious enough to come to this forum to ask the question at all, you probably should be tested for your peace of mind. You can count on a negative result.
And if this is your only potential exposure, I recommend against testing for other STDs as well. Your risk is too low. But if you have been sexually active and not tested in the past year, this would be a good time for routine STD testing since it's on your mind. But not because of the stripper event.
Good luck-- HHH, MD
From a medical or risk assessment perspective, you definitely do not need testing for HIV. But since you're anxious enough to come to this forum to ask the question at all, you probably should be tested for your peace of mind. You can count on a negative result.
And if this is your only potential exposure, I recommend against testing for other STDs as well. Your risk is too low. But if you have been sexually active and not tested in the past year, this would be a good time for routine STD testing since it's on your mind. But not because of the stripper event.
Good luck-- HHH, MD
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