Need you opinion

[Indian_Male]

Hello Sir,

I was here sometime back asking your opinion after an event of condom protected sex. I tested with RNA PCR and HIV Antibodies and for other STD's at 13 weeks. All are negative.

I am worried about something that happened 5 days before my 13 week test and need your opinion.

I was at a massage parlour with no intentions of having any kind of sex. I did not indulge in any kind of sex. The lady wanted to give me a handjob and stroked my penis for couple of times. I immediately stopped her as I did not want her to do that. Then she started finguring her vagina.

At the end she touched(caressed) my scrotum with her hand and unfortunately she was finguring herself with the same hand.

I think its a no risk incident. But, need your opinion. Also, my thirteen week test was five days after this second incident.

Next week it will be 30 days after this massage parlour experience. If I decide to test with PCR DNA can I totally rely on the results.

Please advice.

[Indian_Male]

Could you please explain me why the massage parlour incident was a no risk???

Thanks..

[H. Hunter Handsfield, M.D.]

Everybody has "a lot of hair pores" on the scrotum. I having nothing to add to my original opinion and advice.

[Indian_Male]

Thanks for a quick response.

I was worried coz she was finguring her vagina and she might have ahd some secretion on her hand. Then she touched my scrotum. I don't see any sores or cuts on my scrotum. However she touched the bare skin of scrotum.  I have a lot of hair-pores(from where the hair emerge) on my scrotum. Are these hair-pores considered a way for transmission.

Yes this is all what happened. I didn't do any sex.

Please reply one last time.

[H. Hunter Handsfield, M.D.]

Your negative tests are 100% proof you were not infected during the event 13 weeks earlier. The other exposure was zero risk for catching HIV.  (The first also was zero risk, for practical purposes, since you used a condom.)  I strongly recommend you not have any further HIV testing unless/until you start having significantly risky exposures.  A PCR test is more likley to give a false positive result than it is to show you have HIV.  Then think what you will go through for a couple of weeks while the truth is sorted out by repeat testing.

Good luck--  HHH, MD