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Fingering with Cut

Hi
Sorry for the english I am from Portugal but living in Africa now.
I've been reading this forum for a little while now: I have a doubt in my mind.
I fingered a confirmed hiv positive person (a friend) with no gloves and after that I found myself a cut in my finger.
Meanwhile she was giving me a hand job .
At the time of the fingering i didnt feel a sting or pain only afterwards.
Maybe because i was in the heat of the moment and your blood gets hot therefore u dont feel nothing. I am now with the WHAT IF on my mind.
WHAT IF i cut myself without noticing on her trousers or zipper????
WHAT IF I cut myself in something before inserting my finger where the sun dont shine???
WHAT IF....

Two weeks later after i ignored the cut as i read here no chance of infection trough these kind of route here on medhelp, a mistery ilness began.

1. STOMACH PAIN
2.NAUSEA
3.VOMITING
4.RASHES ON UPPER CHEST (where the hair follicle is) AND BOILS ON BOTH ARMS (symmetrical)
5.DRY MOUTH AND MOUTH ULCERS
6.INDIGESTION
7.MILD FEVER (37.3 c)
8.MUSCLE AND JOINT PAIN AND SCALP ITCHING
9.LACK OF APPETITE
10.MILD HEADACHES

I experienced these symptoms for more than 2 months I guess, not refrainig that i was during the time SUPER DUPPER ANXIOUS and couldn't sleep with worry.

Do these symptoms look like ARS to you?

Do I have to test???

I had unprotected sex with my wife and she has itchy rashes on forearms, thighs and hands.


Tell me please what U think about it....
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hi
i also have the same symptoms that you have, how many days of your last exposure
can you tell me, r you tested for hiv or not ,
i suggest you to take a cbc blood test and an elisa.
and tell me your cbc count.
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Sorry  for this mess but:

Please answer my questions or ill stay crazy like this:

1. Need to test?
2. Risk free from the handjob also?
3. Can I resume unprotected with wifey?
4. Can i indulge again  in those fingering and handjobs without fear of becoming infected?

Thanks for your cooperation without you guys i would be in an asylum because of my anxiety.
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Ok. I also had the following symptoms:

- CHEST PAIN
- RACING HEART
- BURNING SKIN
- HIVES

I am almost 100% sure im infected trough this, because i am feeling bad as hell and my body feels strange since then.

MAybe ill be the unlucky one to be infected trough a cut on the finger...
As we say "**** HAPPENS".


My symptoms started exactly 2 weeks from the exposure.
And she hurted my **** trough hand job so another worry for me... because she had vaginal fluids on her finger.

Bye
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Hey costa,

heres my input: its VERY understandable for you to not fully accept the answers here at once no matter how many times people say NO risk move on to you. Im sure u went on numerous other websites, heard fingering is low risk and the possiblity of cut and sores let it seep through making it possible. Whether it was CDC or some other credible looking website. So ur thinking so why is this one any different? Its another website, the people here weren't there to see what you experienced nor do u think u fully knew the extent of what u did since u don't remember. You also think what if im that unlucky one, what if i had a different body than other people since not one body is the same, what if i had a weak outer skin that was an exception to the rule, that somehow unnoticed blood seeped into ur weak skin before air was able to kill it.  

And obviously u will not be satisfied with LOw risk 99% not getting it because what if you are that unlucky person? U want 100% and no less, but ur answers r never 100% from what u heard because people tell u that SCIENCE is never 100%. When they say not 100% they don't mean rolling a dice. Its like theres 1 percent chance that the dumbest scientist in the world can miss millions of virus cells during an hiv test because hes extremely blind its like looking at an apple and telling me its not red cause one tiny spot on the apple has a brown dot. Theres no way that anyone is that blind ever. Now that u know im on ur page read on.

Heres another very crucial part: when people say 1 in 100,000 to get it, its NOT the example of playing rolling a dice or russian roulette, or spin the wheel. Where its totally chance and ur not in control, what the 1 in 100,000 means more like a few soldiers fighting an entire country, meaning you are in control and know your risk. This means that if u fingered with a cut, the other websites say its low risk because a superficial cut is like a weak almost defeated soldier trying to escape 3 million enemy soldiers who already have him surrounded in a circle miles thick with no air space to leave. The example is not rolling a dice where you can roll it and any number from 1 - 100,000 can happen where no promising defenses are present. Your finger has many darn layers, THIS IS VERY IMPORTANT TO REMEMBER: Outside temperature is air and AIR is literally everywhere u know theres absolutely no way theres an exception to that or else u can't breath, and air are molecules which are everywhere to get into ur skin and wrap up around every single virus cell there is. Even though this is already overkill, ur blood from the inside is pushing outward, which im pretty sure combined with the air, the virus is the soldier in the example.

To furthermore add, no fingering cases ever recorded. im sure u weren't really satisfied hearing it before because u thought u could be an exception. But read my post and figure for urself now. Because even if there were one recorded case if u think that was an exception think about this, if there was only one, how is that credible. People in worse case scenarios than u have been fingers other people probably every day and millions of people do it for over TWENTY years of recording. And people do not entirely remember what they did when they r drunk, intoxicated, etc. so that one case cannot be credible.

Good example is deep kissing, the CDC says its low risk along with other sites quoting it out there and here they said NO risk. If you research, theres one "supposed" case in 1997 that deep kissing infected a woman from her male partner. So out of 20 years of millions of people kissing every day having probably all sorts of variations of kissing with all sorts of dental conditions, theres one case. U think oh what if thats the exception, if it can happen to one person then it can happen again. Well the man was infected through drug abuse through needles, so tell me, what are the odds his partner or him did drugs or drank enough that they don't remember what they did sexually. Because she got it like a year after, they musta deep kissed like crazy already numerous times. Yes bodies are different but theres certain things which all bodies have in order to SURVIVE. This should cover every doubt you will have in ur life.
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My friends i cant understand why there isnt a risk with fingering if you have a wound in your hand.
There are reports of people infected trough wounds.
You guys are giving wrong info and people are not testing because of you.
If they do get infected trough your no risk evaluationn episode they will infect others. Because each individual is different as each situation is.u just cant say  no risk because u wasn there.
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