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Hiv exposure soar throat

Hey i recently gave oral sex to a guy and am unsure of his hiv status i have developed a soar throat 1 week later with white bumps on the back of my tounge i was wondering how at risk am i of hiv and dose this sound like symoptoms of infection thanks
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You had no risk and any HIV test would be a waste of time.

HIV is instantly inactivated in air and also in saliva which means it is effectively dead so it can't infect from touching, external rubbing 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 the following:
1. unprotected penetrating vaginal
2. unprotected penetrating anal sex
3. sharing needles that you inject with. Tattoo is not an injection.  Knowing these 3 are all you need to know to protect yourself against HIV. Your situation is a long way from any of these 3.
Even with blood, lactation, cuts, rashes, burns, etc the air or the saliva does not allow inactivated virus to infect from touching, external rubbing or oral activities. The above HIV science is 40 years old and very well established so there is no detail that you can add that will make any of your encounter a risk for HIV.  No one in 40 years of HIV history got HIV from the situation you are concerned about so it is unlikely that it will happen in the next 40 of your lifetime either.
People cough on your lips and door knobs so cold and sore throat are to be expected at any time.
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Ok thanks for the info im gunna get tested anyway just for minds sake my days of unsafe play are over the anxiety is to much haha
Better to check out the std forum and do an std check since it is possible to get an std. You can't spend you life testing every day for things like E Coli after each meal and cancer which can come at any time, so why test for the impossible?
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