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Worried About Bleeding Pimple
I am a gay man from India and my partner is HIV+ since 2 years and on medication. We always practice safe sex. We only hug each other and caress and only kiss on the cheeks and forehead. But today while hugging him he rubbed his hard beard against my cheeks. I have pimples on my cheeks and I have a very sensitive skin. After a few seconds of him rubbing his hard beard on my cheeks I started feeling burning sensation on my cheeks. My worry is what if there could be microscopic cuts on my cheeks due to his beard rubbing and then it could be possible that while rubbing his own small pimples might have busted and microscopic blood from it might have directly came into contact with my microscopic cuts and busted pimples on my cheeks. In the worst scenario what's my chances of getting infected? Should I wait 45 days to get tested with the 4th generation test? Also should I continue doing this kind of sexual act with him or should I stop and be more careful from now on? Is this safe sex or should I take more precautions in future? Please advice
Oh my. Do you live in the US or India? I would be so surprised if the level of patient education related to HIV positive partners would not tell you how one gets HIV. From a beard rubbing onto a pimple?
How one gets HIV. It's simple and true for someone who has an hiv+ partner. The risks: having UNPROTECTED vaginal or anal sex or sharing IV needles to INJECT drugs That's it. Air and saliva inactivate the virus.
So, obviously this is zero risk.
But maybe you should talk to your doctor about taking Trulia or another PREP medication so you can be in a sexual relationship together? They have come a long way and now people live full lives with HIV.
You do not need ANY testing and if you think you do, you may be too anxious to be with an HIV positive partner.
How one gets HIV. It's simple and true for someone who has an hiv+ partner. The risks: having UNPROTECTED vaginal or anal sex or sharing IV needles to INJECT drugs That's it. Air and saliva inactivate the virus.
So, obviously this is zero risk.
But maybe you should talk to your doctor about taking Trulia or another PREP medication so you can be in a sexual relationship together? They have come a long way and now people live full lives with HIV.
You do not need ANY testing and if you think you do, you may be too anxious to be with an HIV positive partner.
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Well we don't stay together. So he's my friend and we meet once a week and just hug and caress and kiss for a while and nothing else. So I didn't quite understand your point as to why I need PREP if I have no risk. Can you please explain? I am in India by the way and not in the US.
Whether you live together or not, friend or not, kissing or hugging, or not, you probably should be able to read what I said and get your answer. No risk at all EVER from what I said. And Prep is if you two were wanting a sexual relationship and not having it due to his diagnosis. He could take Prep and then you could have unprotected sex. (which is a risk). What you wrote about is NOT a risk.
* typo. From what YOU wrote of happening, no risk at all. No reason to test. No reason to worry.
My friend and partner was diagnosed Hiv+ 2 years ago. He never did anal or oral, never did drugs. Then how did he got it? I have read countless posts on this forum and many others where they say Hiv is only transmitted inside the body and by no other means. The doctor told my friend that he might have got infected at a barber's shop from infected blood of some Hiv+ previous customer. But all forums says that this is a no risk situation. So I am wondering if he was never involved in any of the high risk encounters then how on earth did he get it. If he got it really from the so called no risk situation then it's making me nervous that I might also be at some point the next target cause the so called no risk situations mentioned all across the forums is in fact not really a no risk situation and one can be infected by those. Can you please explain on this?
None of this is relevant to your question. And I already explained. Air inactivates the virus. THESE are the risks for HIV for ONE LAST TIME (we are volunteers here and can't keep saying the same thing over and over because someone is anxious.)--- Risks for HIV (ONLY RISKS) are to have unprotected vaginal or anal sex or share IV needles to inject drugs. Did you do either of those three things? No. NO RISK. And that is a shame you have this fear of HIV positive people and claim to be a friend. You think he can give a hug and rub his beard against someone and transmit HIV? We don't live in 1980 when there was little information on the virus. NO ONE gets hiv that way, not ONE SINGLE PROVEN CASE. your worry is just your own worry. You shouldn't hang out with this so called friend if you have anxiety that you makes you irrational.
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