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Extreme Anxiety

All,

I am in a very high state of anxiety about the 2 nights of kissing an hiv positive individual last week. He is again undetectable and has been medicated for roughly 2 years.

I have read multiple sites that say French kissing is a high risk and testing is required.

There has even been cases or hiv transmittal via kissing.

I am sweating bullets over this. Please help!
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"Kissing is no risk, even deep ("French") kissing and even with a person who sores on their mouth or has gum or dental disease."   DR HOOK

"Of course no risk. HIV is not transmitted by kissing, even with sores in the mouth.

Despite the billions of kissing events in the AIDS era, not one case of HIV has been known to be transmitted that way, even though millions of those kisses undoubtedly were with cuts in the mouth or on the lips."  
DR HANDSFIELD
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Is the possible sore a risk??
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What if I had a sore inside my lip? I have one now, but don't remember it being there at the time of the kissing.

I don't remember tasting any blood in my mouth that weekend either.
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HIV is not transmitted by kissing.

HIV is transmitted by;
Unprotected penetrative anal and/or vaginal sex
Sharing works with other IV drug abusers
Mother to child
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Also, we decided not to date, a decision that was very hard to make. We had 0 sexual contact.
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