close
Enter your symptoms and find possible causes with MedHelp's new Symptom Search.
Wanting some information
4 hours ago in the HIV Prevention Expert Forum
"White heterosexual men that are non injection drug users in the US are at a much lower risk for hiv?" If such men also have not been incarcerated and are not immigrants from HIV endemic areas, fewer than 1 in 1,000 has HIV, maybe only 1 in 10,000. And it would have been even lower several years ago.
Wanting some information
7 hours ago in the HIV Prevention Expert Forum
I meant to say that although general STD testing isn't done automatically in the US military, all service personnel have HIV testing at least when the join up and, I believe, periodically (yearly?) thereafter. The chance your Navy partner had HIV is near zero. Same for the guy who assaulted you, especially if he wasn't bisexual or an injection drug user.
Wanting some information
7 hours ago in the HIV Prevention Expert Forum
Welcome to the STD forum. Please accept my sympathy for your difficult past sexual experience. You probably know it is quite common for people in your situation to not take action or seek counseling, for exactly the reasons you state. You definitely should not be feeling guilty either about the assault itself or your own reactions afterward. But if these i...
UTI
7 hours ago in the STDs Expert Forum
Welcome to the STD forum. For several reasons, it is unlikely your symptoms are related to the sexual encounter 3-4 weeks previously. Condom-protected vaginal = no risk, and oral sex is low risk. Although NGU and gonorrhea can be acquired by oral sex, they usually cause symptoms within 1-2 weeks, not 3 weeks later; the main symptom is discharge, not pain...
Wife Symptoms
7 hours ago in the STDs Expert Forum
Get this straight: You were not at risk. You could not have been infected. Therefore, no testing was necessary. Therefore, whether the test was properly collected or not makes no difference. In any case, most experts believe it is not necessary to wait an hour after testing for reliable results. We don't worry about that in the STD clinic; we test peo...
HIV-2
9 hours ago in the HIV Prevention Expert Forum
To my knowledge, HIV-2 didn't even exist in the 1980s -- for sure it was not yet known to exist. Even now it is uncommon in all parts of the world and vanishingly rare in the US, and almost certaily HIV-2 was not present in the US back then. And even with HIV-2, after 25 years most infected people would have obvious symptoms, or would be dead. For these r...