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hiv risk staph infection?teak lizzie vance

Ok so I've been getting sick a lot lately. I keep getting painful pinkish purple sores down near my pubic region is.they look like boils n hurt to touch n last for weeks or months. I squeezed one painfully today n puss n,blood came out n now it swollen I started with one on my hip then got another on the other hip now I got two more painful ones it looks like staph or boils or herpes or could it be hiv? I'm so scared. I have been sexually active n have had three unprotected bjs n protected sex now I'm freaking out
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Ok thanks doctor
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From all you have said, there is no reason to suspect you have HIV.

As for your "enemies", you know that didn't happen. If you are obsessed with that idea or seriously worried about it, you need to consider professional counseling. This is not normal thinking.
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Ok so most likely I don't have hiv?  What about thinking some enemies poked or injected me with hiv blood while I sleep sound n deeply
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Welcome to the forum.

HIV does not predispose to skin infections of this type. In addition, HIV is not transmitted by oral sex (oral to penis), or by condom-protected vaginal sex.

You should see a doctor about your symptoms, which suggest you may indeed be carrying staph or strep, which is causing recurrent folliculitis, boils, etc. But this sort of thing has nothing to do with HIV.
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Also I've been having sores reoccurring sores in my mouth and I had this thought that people were injecting hiv into my arm purposely to infect me while I slept because I woke up with poke marks on my arm and now I'm freaking out if I'm going to die quickly from hiv without knowing
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