Glad to help. Take care. EWH
Thank you very much Dr.Hook.
I appreciate all the years of work you, Dr.Handsfield, and people over the community forum is putting into this.
Best wishes with health.
Tingling in your hands and feet is certainly not at all suggestive of recently acquired HIV. There are many possible causes of such symptoms including just breathing too quickly. EWH
Thank you for your fast and reassuring response Dr.Hook.
Without taking your time more, I would like to ask one last question, I know tests overrule symptoms but:
what are your thoughts about the tingling in one hand and feet?
the tingling in feet is not in toes, but near mid bottom, sometimes with pain in heel.
the tingling in hand is varying fingers and palm.
Welcome to our Forum. I'll be happy to comment, agreeing with what Teak has already said on the HIV Prevention Community site. This was a no risk event for you. I say this both because of the nature of the event and your test results.
First the event. As Teak has told you, without genital or ano-genital penetration there is no known risk. You do not know that this women had HIV and in fact, it is statistically quite unlikely that she was- fewer than 1 in 10,000 American women have HIV. Further, there are no instances in which HIV has been documented to have been transmitted through masturbation or through receipt of oral sex. That your partner was menstruating does not change this. There is no more HIV in blood than in genital secretions and in some instances, there is actually more blood in the genital secretions than circulating in the blood.
As for your tests, your combined tests at 28 days, as well as your subsequent tests at 8,10, 12, and 13 weeks are all definitive and prove that you were not infected.
There is absolutely no reason to worry further about the event you describe and no reason for further testing. I hope that these comments are helpful and will let you move forward. EWH