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Blood while kissing gay man
Hello doctor,
On the 3rd of November I had an encounter with a gay man whose status I dont know and we ended up kissing deeply and I felt like I tasted some blood, at the time It didn't strike me but I realized later that I have a chipped molar with the nerves exposed. I am now very worried that I might have contracted HIV from him. I took the HIV rna test on the 10th day post exposure and the HIV 4th gen duo test on the 17th day post exposure and they both came back negative. How much additional testing would you advice and what are the chances of me having contracted HIV. I noticed some of the ARS symptoms like swollen lymph nodes in the groin and shoulder. I am freaking out please help.
On the 3rd of November I had an encounter with a gay man whose status I dont know and we ended up kissing deeply and I felt like I tasted some blood, at the time It didn't strike me but I realized later that I have a chipped molar with the nerves exposed. I am now very worried that I might have contracted HIV from him. I took the HIV rna test on the 10th day post exposure and the HIV 4th gen duo test on the 17th day post exposure and they both came back negative. How much additional testing would you advice and what are the chances of me having contracted HIV. I noticed some of the ARS symptoms like swollen lymph nodes in the groin and shoulder. I am freaking out please help.
Thank you for your answers, I appreciate it. some follow up questions
1. I am new here so on which forum can I talk to doctors?
2. I know that this is typically close to no risk however in my case the molar is broken in half and not just chipped so there are nerves and blood vessels exposed which has me worried a lot more.
1. I am new here so on which forum can I talk to doctors?
2. I know that this is typically close to no risk however in my case the molar is broken in half and not just chipped so there are nerves and blood vessels exposed which has me worried a lot more.
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You don't have any medical training, and are incorrect thinking it is a risk. Reread the otherwise part, and consider how many tens of millions of babies, adults and children are kissed by an HIV person by mistake.
You don't have any medical training, and are incorrect thinking it is a risk. Reread the otherwise part, and consider how many tens of millions of babies, adults and children are kissed by an HIV person by mistake.
Thanks for the reassurance. I plan on retaking the RNA test 25 days post exposure, would this accurately reflect my status?
No risk=no disease.
You had no risk of HIV because you can't get HIV from oral activities. You are so safe that you didn't need to test. There is nothing to be anxious about.
HIV is instantly inactivated in air and also in saliva which means it is effectively dead so it can't infect from 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 unprotected penetrating vaginal or anal sex or sharing needles that you inject with but you didn't do that so you had no risk. This sentence is all you need to know to protect yourself against HIV.
Even with blood, lactation cuts, rashes, burns etc air or saliva does not allow inactivated virus to infect from oral activities. The above HIV science is 40 years old and very well established so nothing you can add will make your situation a risk.
No one got HIV from oral in 40 years of HIV history, so likely no one will in the next 40 years of your life either.
Lymph swell for various reasons, so symptoms are not used by HIV doctors to diagnose HIV so you won't be able to either.
Your symptoms (and they might not even exist since you are not a trained medical person) have nothing to do with HIV since you don't have HIV, so see your doctor if concerned and want a diagnosis.
HIV is instantly inactivated in air and also in saliva which means it is effectively dead so it can't infect from 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 unprotected penetrating vaginal or anal sex or sharing needles that you inject with but you didn't do that so you had no risk. This sentence is all you need to know to protect yourself against HIV.
Even with blood, lactation cuts, rashes, burns etc air or saliva does not allow inactivated virus to infect from oral activities. The above HIV science is 40 years old and very well established so nothing you can add will make your situation a risk.
No one got HIV from oral in 40 years of HIV history, so likely no one will in the next 40 years of your life either.
Lymph swell for various reasons, so symptoms are not used by HIV doctors to diagnose HIV so you won't be able to either.
Your symptoms (and they might not even exist since you are not a trained medical person) have nothing to do with HIV since you don't have HIV, so see your doctor if concerned and want a diagnosis.
Thank you. I truly appreciate the time you took to write this out, means a lot. God bless. I also found this paper which seems to reiterate what you said (https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/9989543) (in case its useful for other folks like me)
Kissing is not a risk for HIV otherwise every teenager in America would get HIV. Your tests were not needed since there can't be any HIV.
Likely your symptoms are in your imagination from fear making you over-analyze your body. Self diagnosis is generally wrong as in your case thinking you have HIV, and if have no medical training you likely do not know what swollen lymph is like. See your doctor if concerned for a proper diagnosis but it can't be HIV..
Likely your symptoms are in your imagination from fear making you over-analyze your body. Self diagnosis is generally wrong as in your case thinking you have HIV, and if have no medical training you likely do not know what swollen lymph is like. See your doctor if concerned for a proper diagnosis but it can't be HIV..
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You don’t have a risk from the incident you described. Oral sex, kissing and touching, all have no risk. Even with a damaged tooth or whatever else. The virus needs direct access to your bloodstream, and saliva and air deactivates it.
You don’t have a risk from the incident you described. Oral sex, kissing and touching, all have no risk. Even with a damaged tooth or whatever else. The virus needs direct access to your bloodstream, and saliva and air deactivates it.
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