this forum is hiv specific and you have been assessed as not having a risk of infection.
oh well 4 day of throat soreness and today is worse than ever. Iam going for a swab today. Last time i had a sore throat this long I had staph infection in my throat.
ok thank you Liz and she did have a cold when she came up here. she and her daughter both had colds at that time.
There is no debate (among experts) about the HIV risks associated with oral sex. The risk is so low that almost nobody who cares for HIV infected patients has ever had a patient believed to have been infected that way. Among experts, it's a semantic issue about using terms like "no risk" and "very low risk". There is no difference between my or Dr. Hook's use of "low risk" and other experts' "no risk".
DR. HANSFIELD
"And oral sex is basically safe sex -- completely safe with respect to HIV and although not zero risk for other STDs, the chance of infection is far lower than for unprotected vaginal or anal sex. Please educate yourself about the real risks. If you stick with oral sex and condom-protected vaginal or anal sex, you have no HIV worries and very little worry about other STDs. " DR HANSFIELD
"I am sure you can find lots of people who belive that HIV is transmitted by oral sex, but you will not find scientific data to support this unrealistic concern..." DR HOOK
"HIV is not spread by touching, masturbation, oral sex or condom protected sex."- DR. HOOK
in the public HIV Prevention forum of MedHelp, TEAK and the other moderators maintain that oral sex in all forms is a zero risk activity. Would you agree with this assessment?
I TOTALLY AGREE / DR GARCIA
LIzzie LOU DO U AGREE it was a no risk situation??
Hi vance, you must have posted YOUR REPLY while i was mentioning what i had forgotten, does your opinion still hold?
I forgot to mention that approximately 3 days later i developed a sore throat and some geographic patches on my tongue ( I must say i suffer the occasional geographic tongue flare up though) with these patches going after a day or two.The sore throat appears to be subsiding somewhat. Incident occured on saturday night and soreness started on tuesday - today thursday and throat still sore.
That's about it.
You had no risk of HIV with oral sex.