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Whats my hiv risk? freaking out please help
Had sex with a young girl. It was all protected with a condom and have put water in it to determine any leakage and i cannot see one. I had put my fingers inside her and had small cuts and kissing which im not sure if i have sore in my mouth or not as i usually bleed when i brush my teeth.Problem is soon after the act she freaked out and said we should buy an over the counter hiv test and we tested at home. She was positive and i was negative. The following morning around 16 hours later i visited the doctors office to discuss my risks and they have immediately put me on Trivicacy 50mg and Ricovir-EM 200mg. I may have touched my penis with vaginal fluids as i was put on the condom and when i was removing it. I am seriously freaking out and cannot wait for three months to lapse to get a definitive result. Please help what risk am i at.
Only sex risks for HIV are unprotected penetrating vaginal or anal which you didn't have. No risk=no disease=no reason to be on something like PEP.
If a condom fails it is a large rip down the seam and it hangs in tatters so both people would quickly be very aware of it. There is no need for messy water pressure tests.
Only the urethra needs protection which is what happened in your case, and you can't get HIV when you use a condom because it doesn't enter through cuts or any form of oral activities during sex.
It is a fragile virus so has only a few limited possibilities to be transmitted from one person to another. Oral activities or touching are not a risk for HIV so you need a new doctor. PEP is serious medication so perhaps he put you on it as a placebo to get you out of his office, which is a terrible idea.
If a condom fails it is a large rip down the seam and it hangs in tatters so both people would quickly be very aware of it. There is no need for messy water pressure tests.
Only the urethra needs protection which is what happened in your case, and you can't get HIV when you use a condom because it doesn't enter through cuts or any form of oral activities during sex.
It is a fragile virus so has only a few limited possibilities to be transmitted from one person to another. Oral activities or touching are not a risk for HIV so you need a new doctor. PEP is serious medication so perhaps he put you on it as a placebo to get you out of his office, which is a terrible idea.
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It is possible her test is incorrect and gave a false positive. Bear in mind that a duo test has a 28 day window period and any other test is 90, so if she has correctly tested previously and didn't have unprotected vaginal or anal since the beginning of the test window period then she would be ok anyway.
She needs to get a clinic to verify her status with their own test. In the meantime the test manufacturer will have a 24 hour help service so that is a source of more info.
You might want to follow up with her by providing her the following information:
Here is more background on why you are safe. HIV is instantly inactivated in air and also in saliva which means it is effectively dead so it can't infect from touching or oral activities. It doesn't matter if you and they were actively bleeding or had cuts at the time either because the HIV is effectively dead.
Only adult risks are unprotected penetrating vaginal or anal sex or sharing needles that you inject with. This sentence is all you need to know to protect yourself against HIV.
Even with blood, lactation, cuts, rashes, burns, etc the air or the saliva does not allow inactivated virus to infect from touching or oral activities. The above HIV science is 40 years old and very well established.
No one got HIV from touching or oral activities in 40 years of HIV history, so likely no one will in the next 40 years of your life either.
She needs to get a clinic to verify her status with their own test. In the meantime the test manufacturer will have a 24 hour help service so that is a source of more info.
You might want to follow up with her by providing her the following information:
Here is more background on why you are safe. HIV is instantly inactivated in air and also in saliva which means it is effectively dead so it can't infect from touching or oral activities. It doesn't matter if you and they were actively bleeding or had cuts at the time either because the HIV is effectively dead.
Only adult risks are unprotected penetrating vaginal or anal sex or sharing needles that you inject with. This sentence is all you need to know to protect yourself against HIV.
Even with blood, lactation, cuts, rashes, burns, etc the air or the saliva does not allow inactivated virus to infect from touching or oral activities. The above HIV science is 40 years old and very well established.
No one got HIV from touching or oral activities in 40 years of HIV history, so likely no one will in the next 40 years of your life either.
Thank you so much for your response. Ever since i have taken the PEP my stomach feels like someone is playing with hacksaws inside and am in terrible pain and now i don't know what to do honestly.
If you can't figure what to do after reading my advice, see a better doctor than the one you saw. He will take you off the PEP.
Were you very anxious and did you beg for the PEP? Otherwise what reason did he provide that you had a risk?
Were you very anxious and did you beg for the PEP? Otherwise what reason did he provide that you had a risk?
I meant I don't have any more advice, unless your doctor gave you a reason that isn't listed in your posts.
Maybe i sounded more anxious to him and begged for PEP than anything else.
Maybe? Can we please get to the bottom of this. You must know but I can only guess what you meant.
Some doctors will give you PEP purely to get rid of you and stop taking up their billable time. You need to avoid them.
FIrst you need to get someone you trust to give you the facts on how purposeless it is to take PEP. There are potential permanent side effects.
If you still need a placebo then seek therapy and a discussion with a doctor who has some interest in you.
Some doctors will give you PEP purely to get rid of you and stop taking up their billable time. You need to avoid them.
FIrst you need to get someone you trust to give you the facts on how purposeless it is to take PEP. There are potential permanent side effects.
If you still need a placebo then seek therapy and a discussion with a doctor who has some interest in you.
Thank you so much
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