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blood exposure

The girl I was dating just tested positive. I used to only do the foillowing with her
1) Sex with condom
2) Oral sex give and receive
3) I sucked her blood off of her index finger one time when she cut her finger.
Should I go for tests ?
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You never had an exposure.  Keep doing what your doing and you won't have a risk of contracting HIV.
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Does the government care? Yes. You can give people all the information that is available and people will still ignore it.
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There are no tests marketed or sold to give a conclusive negative test result earlier than three months and there is no one on this forum that can post an approval any different.
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No incident HIV infections among MSM who practice exclusively oral sex.
Int Conf AIDS 2004 Jul 11-16; 15:(abstract no. WePpC2072)??Balls JE, Evans JL, Dilley J, Osmond D, Shiboski S, Shiboski C, Klausner J, McFarland W, Greenspan D, Page-Shafer K?University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, United States

Oral transmission of HIV, reality or fiction? An update
J Campo1, MA Perea1, J del Romero2, J Cano1, V Hernando2, A Bascones1
Oral Diseases (2006) 12, 219–228

AIDS: Volume 16(17) 22 November 2002 pp 2350-2352
Risk of HIV infection attributable to oral sex among men who have sex with men and in the population of men who have sex with men

Page-Shafer, Kimberlya,b; Shiboski, Caroline Hb; Osmond, Dennis Hc; Dilley, Jamesd; McFarland, Willie; Shiboski, Steve Cc; Klausner, Jeffrey De; Balls, Joycea; Greenspan, Deborahb; Greenspan
Page-Shafer K, Veugelers PJ, Moss AR, Strathdee S, Kaldor JM, van Griensven GJ. Sexual risk behavior and risk factors for HIV-1 seroconversion in homosexual men participating in the Tricontinental Seroconverter Study, 1982-1994 [published erratum appears in Am J Epidemiol 1997 15 Dec; 146(12):1076]. Am J Epidemiol 1997, 146:531-542.

Studies which show the fallacy of relying on anecdotal evidence as opposed to carefully controlled study insofar as HIV transmission risk is concerned:

Jenicek M. "Clinical Case Reporting" in Evidence-Based Medicine. Oxford: Butterworth–Heinemann; 1999:117
Saltzman SP, Stoddard AM, McCusker J, Moon MW, Mayer KH. Reliability of self-reported sexual behavior risk factors for HIV infection in homosexual men. Public Health Rep. 1987 102(6):692–697.Nov–Dec;

Catania JA, Gibson DR, Chitwood DD, Coates TJ. Methodological problems in AIDS behavioral research: influences on measurement error and participation bias in studies of sexual behavior. Psychol Bull. 1990 Nov;108(3):339–362.

There is no debate (among experts) about the HIV risks associated with oral sex. The risk is so low that almost nobody who cares for HIV infected patients has ever had a patient believed to have been infected that way. Among experts, it's a semantic issue about using terms like "no risk" and "very low risk". There is no difference between my or Dr. Hook's use of "low risk" and other experts' "no risk".
DR. HANSFIELD

"And oral sex is basically safe sex -- completely safe with respect to HIV and although not zero risk for other STDs, the chance of infection is far lower than for unprotected vaginal or anal sex. Please educate yourself about the real risks. If you stick with oral sex and condom-protected vaginal or anal sex, you have no HIV worries and very little worry about other STDs. " DR HANSFIELD

"I am sure you can find lots of people who believe that HIV is transmitted by oral sex, but you will not find scientific data to support this unrealistic concern..." DR HOOK

"HIV is not spread by touching, masturbation, oral sex or condom protected sex."- DR. HOOK

in the public HIV Prevention forum of MedHelp, TEAK and the other moderators maintain that oral sex in all forms is a zero risk activity. Would you agree with this assessment?
I TOTALLY AGREE / DR GARCIA
"HIV is not spread by masturbation, through oral sex, through kissing or other casual contact." Dr. Hook
"The observation on thousands and thousands of observations is that HIV is not spread by oral sex (of any sort)." DR HOOK
"I would not say your risk ,if he had HIV is "slim to none"- that's too high.  I would say they are effectively zero.  How much of his ejaculate or other genital  secretions you may have swallowed makes no difference.  EWH "
"As far as HIV is concerned, there is no known risk of getting HIV from performing oral sex on an infected partner, even if that person's genital secretions get into your eyes or if you swallow." Dr.Hook
HIV is not spread by oral sex, giving or receiving, even if sores, gum disease or blood is present
DR HOOK
The fact is that there are no cases in which HIV has been proven to be transmitted by oral sex, including fellatio..  EWH
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Thank you
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Teak, Rain lover, Nurse Girl, Lizzie, Joggen, Vance..may be a few more. listen to them..not to all..not even me ( ofcourse you can believe this post though).
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Thank you for your assurance i mean.  I will not test.  That guy gave me anxity when he comminted but since what i did is no risk i wont test.   Thabk u
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I believe you but that guys comment made me go crazy.  But i will take your advice and nit test thank you
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You're welcome.
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Thank you sir
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Yes it was false.You had zero risk,cuts or no cuts.
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So romans comment was false ?    I had zero risk?
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No risk because the saliva in your mouth with it's many powerful protiens & enzymes renders the HIV virus inactive & unable to infect you.
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Please clarify
I have no exposure from the blood sucking eventhough i had cuts ?
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you never had exposure. You don't need testing.
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saliva renders the HIV virus inactive and unable to infect you.
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Would that change your aanswer? That I had a cut in my moth while sucking the blood?
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Get an education
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Thank you for your answer.  I indeed had a. Cut in my mouth woulkd that change your advice?
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you are clean my friend..as i have read and gained knowledge..oral sex gives..0.001% chance of infection and blood exposure in your case 0.01% chance..
its all safe until you have got cuts in mouth at the time of event.
moreover as everyone suggest dont ask just get tested.. :)

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