Welcome to our Forum. the exposure you describe was very low risk It is unlikely that your partner even had HIV- most commercial sex workers do not. Furthermore, as I suspect you know, receipt of oral sex is virtually no risk for acquisition of HIV as is condom protected vaginal sex. that your partner applied your condoms with her mouth does not change this.
The ARS does not begin in such a short period following exposure. Typically the ARS begins 2-3 weeks following exposure and lasts about a week. On the other hand, the far more common, typical viral illnesses that most people get from time to time do begin soon after exposure.
As for your test results, at 3 weeks we estimate that testing would detect over 75% of infections. in addition, in persons with the ARS, tests are typically positive a week after symptoms begin.
When you put all of the facts mentioned above together, the chance that you acquired HIV form the exposure you describe is virtually zero. Personally, with regard to the exposure that you have described, I see no reason for concern and no reason for further testing. You did not get HIV from the exposure you described. EWH
A related discussion, Should I be worried? was started.
A related discussion,
ARS symptoms 2 days after was started.
My opinion is unchanged. Your expsoure was virtually no risk. Your DUO test will be negative.
This site is not a for debate. Neither with other doctors or with infomration from other on-line sources. The internet, for all of its virtures is not a good place for an anxious person to seek answers. Much information there is incorrect and/or taken out of context. EWH
Dear Dr.,
My 3 week hiv test was a simple antibody test and it was negative. According to your saying, is it safe to assume that the symptoms I was having was not a result of ARS?
I have been feeling very stressed out ever since I got the results back so today (5weeks+ 2days post last exposure) I went for an HIV DUO test. I was told by the physician there, that my exposure was certainly not a low risk one and that the 3-week simple antibody test was not a clear indication of my status nor that ARS could in fact have an impact on the 3-week antibody test result.
This made me feel worse than ever and I am now waiting in agony for the HIV DUO test results. I have come to lost any drop of hope I had, and to make things worse, after an exhaustive search online I did find HIV positive people whose symptoms began 2-3 days after the exposure that were similar to the ones I was having.