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Possible hiv risk
Sorry to bother you with these questions that my seem silly but we need some reassurance . I did oral on someone that i later discovered she is HIV+ a day before yesterday. It was mainly fingering and discovered i had just pricked myself with a thorn on the same finger.What are the chances of contracting the disease. She said she has been on treatment for four years. This is the second time i have ever posted in this forum this year but your advice is greatly appreciated. Should i look for PEP.
Since shes on treatment,the viral load is probably undetectable.
Fingering is not a risk also for hiv,unprotected vagina and anal is a risk.
Based on your exposure a test is not necessary but if you feel a need to test,then go ahead with a duo test but you can expect a negative result for sure.
Fingering is not a risk also for hiv,unprotected vagina and anal is a risk.
Based on your exposure a test is not necessary but if you feel a need to test,then go ahead with a duo test but you can expect a negative result for sure.
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You had no HIV risk and a test will be a waste of time.
HIV is instantly inactivated in air and also in saliva which means it is effectively dead so it can't infect from touching, external rubbing or oral activities. It doesn't matter if you and they were actively bleeding or had cuts at the time either because the HIV is effectively dead.
Only adult risks are the following:
1. unprotected penetrating vaginal
2. unprotected penetrating anal sex
3. sharing needles that you inject with. Knowing these 3 are all you need to know to protect yourself against HIV. Your situation is a long way from any of these 3.
Even with blood, lactation, cuts, rashes, burns, etc the air or the saliva does not allow inactivated virus to infect from touching, external rubbing or oral activities. The above HIV science is 40 years old and very well established so there is no detail that you can add that will make any of your encounter a risk for HIV. No one in 40 years of HIV history got HIV from the situation you are concerned about so it is unlikely that it will happen in the next 40 of your lifetime either.
PEP has potential permanent side effects and would be a bad choice of placebo.
HIV is instantly inactivated in air and also in saliva which means it is effectively dead so it can't infect from touching, external rubbing or oral activities. It doesn't matter if you and they were actively bleeding or had cuts at the time either because the HIV is effectively dead.
Only adult risks are the following:
1. unprotected penetrating vaginal
2. unprotected penetrating anal sex
3. sharing needles that you inject with. Knowing these 3 are all you need to know to protect yourself against HIV. Your situation is a long way from any of these 3.
Even with blood, lactation, cuts, rashes, burns, etc the air or the saliva does not allow inactivated virus to infect from touching, external rubbing or oral activities. The above HIV science is 40 years old and very well established so there is no detail that you can add that will make any of your encounter a risk for HIV. No one in 40 years of HIV history got HIV from the situation you are concerned about so it is unlikely that it will happen in the next 40 of your lifetime either.
PEP has potential permanent side effects and would be a bad choice of placebo.
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