HIV Transmission

[Dykstra90]

Approximately 7 weeks ago, I had protected sex with a woman I did not know.  I had been drinking at the time and afterwards while taking the condom off, it fell inside my boxer shorts and I did not notice.  I walked around with the condom inside my boxer shorts/jeans for a couple of hours.  What is the chance that HIV could be transmitted this way?  A doctor put me on Cipro and Doxycycline 5 days after this occured as I had pain in my testicles.  The pain went away after this treatment but has since returned, some three weeks later.  I have had some tightness in my legs, possibly due to enlarged glands in my groin, but I haven't been able to feel any lumps in the region. Is there anything else I could have contracted?  I have had no discharge or appearances of anything in the genital area.

Thanks for your opinion.

[H. Hunter Handsfield, M.D.]

I can't imagine HIV transmission by that route.  Even if you had unprotected vaginal sex and the woman was HIV-infected, you probably had less than 1 in 1000 chance of getting HIV.  And unless she is an injection drug user, the odds she actually had HIV are very low.  So maybe your risk with a condom in place was something like 1 in 100,000.  The likelihood of transmission by condom in your shorts has to be zilch.  You have no realistic risk of HIV from this even.

As far as your other symptoms, I doubt you had any infection at all.  I wouldn't lose any sleep over this event.

Good luck--  HHH, MD

[wkudon]

i was with a female sex worker on april 6th.
she performed oral sex without protection. then she placed a condom on for vaginal sex and then took condom off for
oral sex again.  2 days after this encounter i started with sore throat, white tongue, taste in mouth changed and burning lips. it has now been one month since the encounter all initial symptoms have remained along with some nausea and dirreah everyday. been to doctors 3 times, no real cause determined for symptoms,  I have had a full std panel of tests and a (hiv rna viral load six days after exposure)  (oraquick antibody test 1 month after)
all negative

my questions if infected can symptoms start 2 days after,
and is there cause for hiv conseern for this incident. also i was hiiv neg before this encounter. no previous partners for 2 years.

[markcurse7]

Hi. I had a similar experience. I had vaginal sex with a sexual worker and I did use a condom. I also had my underwear and jeans half way off during sex. After I finished the girl put my underwear back on quickly. I had the condom inside my underwear for about 1-2minutes then I went to bathroom and threw the condom away. I had too many drinks and didn't think clearly as I put my penis back to the underwear. As I returned home and changed I noticed that there're wet spot on my underwear. I had those tight light cotton underwear. I'm worry that my head of my penis contacted any of the female fluid...

I'm waiting for a reply from the doctor. U can read my post for their answer... I posted on May27 "STD - Please help".