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Strange symptoms after SW...HIV risk?
Protected oral, protected vaginal, protected anal sex with Asian sex worker (in a brothel, in New Zealand). BUT - condom then removed, ejaculation, followed by fairly extensive masturbation session by her. My concern is possible transmission via remnant anal/vaginal secretions during the masturbation, as there was plenty of contact with opening to urethra. My nasties have developed as follows:
Day 4: tingling in groin
Day 5: High fever 24hr, bright red rash & burning on scrotum, pain in shaft of penis (feels deep, like nerve pain). Heavy fatigue. Red, irritated foreskin. No blistering. Patchy darkening/discolouration on head of penis. Loss of appetite.
Day 7: Mild but constant headaches, tingling slightly swollen lymph nodes (under jaw & ears only).
Day 11: Visited GP. Headaches & fatigue continue, nodes ache, still only in neck. Mild nightsweats without real fever, frequent nocturnal urination (6+ times per night). Tested for gonorrhea, chlamydia, syphilis
Day 4: tingling in groin
Day 5: High fever 24hr, bright red rash & burning on scrotum, pain in shaft of penis (feels deep, like nerve pain). Heavy fatigue. Red, irritated foreskin. No blistering. Patchy darkening/discolouration on head of penis. Loss of appetite.
Day 7: Mild but constant headaches, tingling slightly swollen lymph nodes (under jaw & ears only).
Day 11: Visited GP. Headaches & fatigue continue, nodes ache, still only in neck. Mild nightsweats without real fever, frequent nocturnal urination (6+ times per night). Tested for gonorrhea, chlamydia, syphilis
MEDICAL PROFESSIONAL
Bunghole's comments (before mine, below) are right on the money. You had protected sex. HIV and STDs have never been known to be transmissted by hand-to-genital contact, regardless of lubricating with sexual secretions. Your symptoms do not suggest HIV or any other STD, both by their nature and timing (too soon to be due to HIV). The negative STD tests are reassuring. Your HIV test will be negative. (If positive, you acquired it somewhere else, not during the event you describe.)
To answer your specific questions: 1) HIV risk zero, or so close to it that you really can relax and stop worring about it. 2) Perhaps chemical irritation (e.g. to lubricant, latex, vaginal deodorant); or anxiety. For sure not an STD. 3) Yes, 5 days is too soon for ARV; and your symptoms don't suggest it anyway. 4) As I have said many times, whenever a person suspects his/her own symptoms are due to anxiety, they probably are almost always right. UTI is very rare in healthy men. Anyway, UTI's are not sexually acquired in men.
Bottom line: Follow up with your own doc if symptoms persist, but don't worry about HIV or any other STD.
Good luck -- HHH, MD
To answer your specific questions: 1) HIV risk zero, or so close to it that you really can relax and stop worring about it. 2) Perhaps chemical irritation (e.g. to lubricant, latex, vaginal deodorant); or anxiety. For sure not an STD. 3) Yes, 5 days is too soon for ARV; and your symptoms don't suggest it anyway. 4) As I have said many times, whenever a person suspects his/her own symptoms are due to anxiety, they probably are almost always right. UTI is very rare in healthy men. Anyway, UTI's are not sexually acquired in men.
Bottom line: Follow up with your own doc if symptoms persist, but don't worry about HIV or any other STD.
Good luck -- HHH, MD
clarification - the masturbation was performed using the leftover lubrication on penis/testicles following the vaginal/anal sex.
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