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Hello Dr
I am male. On Jan 30th I performed cunnilingus on a woman of unknown HIV status for few minutes. No Anal, no vaginal and no BJ.
No menstrual blood and I have no cuts or sores in my mouth.
On Feb 8 (10 days later) I felt tired during the day and the evening I got chills and my temp went to 101. I started Tamiflu and slept. Woke up the same night around 3 AM and I was feeling much better. No more fever and no more fatigue. The next day I was pretty normal and ok.
However, I was very stressed and anxious that I might be going through ARS, so for the next 5 days I experienced mild night sweats. No Fever, no rash, no sore throat, no lymph nodes, no diarrhea, no fatigue… Just mild night sweats.
I had a CBC done on Feb 15 (17 days later) and my numbers were pretty good (WBC= 5.60 RBC= 5.12 Lymhocytes= 2.07 (37%) PLT= 207000).
I had another checkup CBC on March 11 due to knee surgery (41 days later) and my numbers were also pretty good.
(I know that during any viral infection, the numbers tend to be somehow below normal).
I know that Cunnilingus = ZERO risk regarding HIV. I read the French, Swiss and Australian official AIDS websites and all say that Cunnilingus is completely safe regarding HIV with big ZERO risk.
Even the conservative website tehbody.com says that transmission through cunnilingus needs extraordinary almost impossible conditions.
But human nature is a human nature: Anxiety sometimes overrides any scientific fact and any rational thinking. Even if I hit myself with a hammer, I would say that the pain is an HIV symptom.
Now 11 weeks have passed, I want to get tested for my peace of mind, but every time I feel crippled when thinking about those 5 nights of night sweats and I postpone the testing.
Do these night sweats and this brief few hours fever indicate a possible ARS or even mild ARS?
Thank you.
I am male. On Jan 30th I performed cunnilingus on a woman of unknown HIV status for few minutes. No Anal, no vaginal and no BJ.
No menstrual blood and I have no cuts or sores in my mouth.
On Feb 8 (10 days later) I felt tired during the day and the evening I got chills and my temp went to 101. I started Tamiflu and slept. Woke up the same night around 3 AM and I was feeling much better. No more fever and no more fatigue. The next day I was pretty normal and ok.
However, I was very stressed and anxious that I might be going through ARS, so for the next 5 days I experienced mild night sweats. No Fever, no rash, no sore throat, no lymph nodes, no diarrhea, no fatigue… Just mild night sweats.
I had a CBC done on Feb 15 (17 days later) and my numbers were pretty good (WBC= 5.60 RBC= 5.12 Lymhocytes= 2.07 (37%) PLT= 207000).
I had another checkup CBC on March 11 due to knee surgery (41 days later) and my numbers were also pretty good.
(I know that during any viral infection, the numbers tend to be somehow below normal).
I know that Cunnilingus = ZERO risk regarding HIV. I read the French, Swiss and Australian official AIDS websites and all say that Cunnilingus is completely safe regarding HIV with big ZERO risk.
Even the conservative website tehbody.com says that transmission through cunnilingus needs extraordinary almost impossible conditions.
But human nature is a human nature: Anxiety sometimes overrides any scientific fact and any rational thinking. Even if I hit myself with a hammer, I would say that the pain is an HIV symptom.
Now 11 weeks have passed, I want to get tested for my peace of mind, but every time I feel crippled when thinking about those 5 nights of night sweats and I postpone the testing.
Do these night sweats and this brief few hours fever indicate a possible ARS or even mild ARS?
Thank you.
MEDICAL PROFESSIONAL
Welcome to our forum. I'll do my best to help relieve your concerns. Before I present the case (using many facts which you are clearly already aware of), let me tell you the bottom line- there was no risk from this exposure. Testing will prove this.
Now let’s review facts and figures.
1. Odds that your partner, a heterosexual woman in North America, had HIV are less than 1 in 1000 and are probably closer to 1 in 10,000.
2. Risk of HIV from oral sex, most conservatively, 1 in 10,000. Thus based on these two figures alone your risk is between 1 in a million and 1 in 10 million
3. Night sweats are very non-specific and while present in the ARS, they are also caused by other viral infections, heartburn and many, many other causes.
4. You did not have the ARS since the S in ARS stands for syndrome and reflects the risk associated with the symptoms set associated with the entire syndrome, not just one or two of the characteristics.
testing is fine. At this time a standard antibody test will be completely reliable. Any result for a test taken at more than 8 weeks is completely reliable. It will be negative. As long as you are committed to believing the test result, this will put things to rest once and for all. I hope these comments help. EWH
Now let’s review facts and figures.
1. Odds that your partner, a heterosexual woman in North America, had HIV are less than 1 in 1000 and are probably closer to 1 in 10,000.
2. Risk of HIV from oral sex, most conservatively, 1 in 10,000. Thus based on these two figures alone your risk is between 1 in a million and 1 in 10 million
3. Night sweats are very non-specific and while present in the ARS, they are also caused by other viral infections, heartburn and many, many other causes.
4. You did not have the ARS since the S in ARS stands for syndrome and reflects the risk associated with the symptoms set associated with the entire syndrome, not just one or two of the characteristics.
testing is fine. At this time a standard antibody test will be completely reliable. Any result for a test taken at more than 8 weeks is completely reliable. It will be negative. As long as you are committed to believing the test result, this will put things to rest once and for all. I hope these comments help. EWH
MEDICAL PROFESSIONAL
Glad to help. You'll be fine. EWH
Thx Dr, really appreciate
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