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Could I of contracted HIV? Please help
About a month and a half ago I started seeing this guy. We engaged in mutual masturbation and I let him finger me. 5 days prior to this encounter he got a deep cut on his knuckle, he thought he needed stitches but ended up not needing after his visit to hospital. So when he fingered me he could of used this finger that was healing and visibly scabbed. I don't recal which finger he used or if the wound was bleeding from cracking. (It was on the knuckle of his pointer finger). If it did bleed it would be a little amount of blood. He only fingered me for like 3 minutes. I asked him before we started seeing each other if he had any stds or anything and he said no he'd been tested. But I don't trust him because he completely ghosted me and I haven't heard from him. Also I looked at an old Facebook of his and he has a gay pride thing and he said he was bisexual. I'm not sure if it was a joke or what. This current week I've had health complications such as parotitis (infected parotid gland) and fever. No cough or anything like that. But I'm seriously worried
No you can't get HIV from fingering so you are so safe that you don't even need to test.
Only sex risks are unprotected penetrating vaginal or anal. HIV is instantly inactivated in air so can't infect from fingering and the cut on his hand would have to be so deep that he couldn't stand the pain for any HIV in his blood to stand any chance of transmission to you.
The virus is very weak outside its comfort zone, unlike a cold which can live for a while on many surfaces which is why everyone gets colds but few get HIV.
Only sex risks are unprotected penetrating vaginal or anal. HIV is instantly inactivated in air so can't infect from fingering and the cut on his hand would have to be so deep that he couldn't stand the pain for any HIV in his blood to stand any chance of transmission to you.
The virus is very weak outside its comfort zone, unlike a cold which can live for a while on many surfaces which is why everyone gets colds but few get HIV.
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Theoretically if he bent his finger and the scab broke maybe a prick or so of blood drawn and casually smeared wiped away then he fingers me.. am I of exposure? I'm very concerned because I'm recovering from parotitis (infected gland) and the potential causes of parotitis are hiv (it says on the list my dr. Gave me) this guy has proven himself very shiesty I hope I am ok I find the sudden illness odd I am 22 and generally don't get ill often. May be a coincidence? I'm sorry to reiderate you if so, just want to be clear. Thank you so much for your opinion
But definitely not heavy flow maybe like a prick or smear here and there. It was a recovering scab he seemed ok
For all I know it could of been bleeding it was a dark night on the beach
There is ZERO chance you got HIV this way. No one has ever gotten HIV from fingering, even with cuts or scrapes, in the over 40 year history of HIV. You won't be the first.
It takes a lot of blood and a gaping wound, a wound so bad that nobody would be using their hands to finger anyone.
Forget about this event and move on.
It takes a lot of blood and a gaping wound, a wound so bad that nobody would be using their hands to finger anyone.
Forget about this event and move on.
Thank you
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