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I am homosexual, 20 days before l had unprotected sex with a man. I am the bottom one. The other one used Alere for tested 3 months ago and the answer is negative. I used Alere for self-test on days 13 and days 15 respectively. So far(20 days), I have no symptoms. I want to ask when the symptoms appear and what is the probability of no symptoms after infection? I plan to test it again with the Alere by myself in 21 days. What is the reference value? Thanks a million. Your answer will help me a lotta.
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Symptoms are not used to diagnose HIV and are very unreliable to judge actually ANYTHING related to HIV. The only way to know is to test. You did have a risk with unprotected anal. However, a one time exposure is less than one percent. So, at 28 days or after, take a 4th generation DUO test for a conclusive answer. I would expect it to be negative. And that the person you had sex with had a recent negative bodes well for that.
12 days ago I had sex with a friend of mine. She gave me oral sex for about 30-35 minutes, then I put on a condom and had vaginal sex for only 3-4 minutes and stopped because I felt uncomfortable. This happened on August 10, 2022 at 01:30 pm Concern: The night before August 9 approx. 11:30 p.m. I was trimming my pubic hair and cut myself slightly with the machine. A lot of blood appeared for 4-5 minutes. It was at the base of my penis where the scrotum joins. This little abrasion could have been exposed to vaginal fluids, I don't know. On August 16, 2022 I traveled to my hometown in PR and on August 19 I started to develop some cold or flu symptoms (muscle pain, mild headache, neck pain, sore throat and tiredness). On August 20, 21, 22 and 23 my voice was very hoarse and I had a lot of expectoration, finally I ended up with upper respiratory tract infections and red eyes. Do you think there is a possibility of exposure to HIV?
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Your situation involves personal contact with an object in air (mouth, , maybe blood, maybe cuts, fluids, etc. ). You will be happy to learn that you had no risk, because you can't get hiv from personal contact except unprotected penetrating vaginal or anal with a penis, neither of which you did and you didn't share hollow needles to inject with which is the only other way to acquire hiv - there are ONLY 3 ways to get hiv. Note that 2 of them require a penis and the third requires a hollow injecting shared needle - there are no OTHER ways to get hiv. Analysis of large numbers of infected people over the 40 years of hiv history has proven that people don't get hiv in the way you are worried is a risk.
Hiv is a fragile virus in air or saliva and is effectively instantly dead in either air or saliva so the WORST that could happen is dead virus rubbed you, and obviously anything which is dead cannot live again so you are good. Blood and cuts would not be relevant in your situation since the hiv has become effectively dead, so you don't have to worry about them to be sure that you are safe.
There is no reason for a person to test when they are safe. The advice took into consideration that the other person might be positive, so move on and enjoy life instead of thinking about this non-event. hiv prevention is straightforward since there are only 3 ways you can become infected, so next time you wonder if you had a risk, ask yourself this QUESTION. "Did I do any of the 3?" Then after you say "No, I didn't" you will know that it's time to move on back to your happy life.
No one got hiv from what you did during 40 years of hiv history and no one will get it in the next 40 years of your life either. You can do what you did any time and be safe from hiv.
The other person's status is irrelevant when you have no exposure to live virus.
Your flu has nothing to do with a disease that you don't have.
Hiv is a fragile virus in air or saliva and is effectively instantly dead in either air or saliva so the WORST that could happen is dead virus rubbed you, and obviously anything which is dead cannot live again so you are good. Blood and cuts would not be relevant in your situation since the hiv has become effectively dead, so you don't have to worry about them to be sure that you are safe.
There is no reason for a person to test when they are safe. The advice took into consideration that the other person might be positive, so move on and enjoy life instead of thinking about this non-event. hiv prevention is straightforward since there are only 3 ways you can become infected, so next time you wonder if you had a risk, ask yourself this QUESTION. "Did I do any of the 3?" Then after you say "No, I didn't" you will know that it's time to move on back to your happy life.
No one got hiv from what you did during 40 years of hiv history and no one will get it in the next 40 years of your life either. You can do what you did any time and be safe from hiv.
The other person's status is irrelevant when you have no exposure to live virus.
Your flu has nothing to do with a disease that you don't have.
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