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Risk of exposure and window period
Dear experts,
a month ago I went to a swinger club where I got two protected encounters (vaginal sex). Before leaving I got also an oral sex from a girl who was performing oral sex on another man just before me. I am wondering if a limited risk situation (oral sex) turning into real risk if there was a leftover semen (or precum) of the other man in the mouth of the girl performing oral sex on me. After the exposure I took four tests (combo Agp24 Hiv2 and Ab anti Hiv1-2) in a center inside a University Hospital that is accredited by the National Healthcare System (I am in Europe) but also by AIDS Clinical Trial Group, National Institutes of Health - USA, after 3 days, 11 days, 22.5 days and 29.5 days, and they all turned negative. While taking the hiv tests, after 3 weeks from exposure, I took also an home test for Gonhonnea and Clamidhya and they turned negative as well. The question is: Can I stop worrying and leave this experience behind? Thank you very much for your great service.
a month ago I went to a swinger club where I got two protected encounters (vaginal sex). Before leaving I got also an oral sex from a girl who was performing oral sex on another man just before me. I am wondering if a limited risk situation (oral sex) turning into real risk if there was a leftover semen (or precum) of the other man in the mouth of the girl performing oral sex on me. After the exposure I took four tests (combo Agp24 Hiv2 and Ab anti Hiv1-2) in a center inside a University Hospital that is accredited by the National Healthcare System (I am in Europe) but also by AIDS Clinical Trial Group, National Institutes of Health - USA, after 3 days, 11 days, 22.5 days and 29.5 days, and they all turned negative. While taking the hiv tests, after 3 weeks from exposure, I took also an home test for Gonhonnea and Clamidhya and they turned negative as well. The question is: Can I stop worrying and leave this experience behind? Thank you very much for your great service.
There’s been HIV cases associated with oral sex but in all 3 cases (if I’m not wrong) the person who contracted HIV was the person performing oral sex. There hasn’t been an HIV case where a person getting oral sex contracted HIV . The chance of getting hiv through any type of oral sex is like 0.000001 lol. It’s inexistent. Those 3 cases had some weird circumstances involving cuts and other factors that resulted in the person giving oral sex to contract HIV. You should maybe be worried about other STDs, Your chance of having HIV is inexistent.
You can't get HIV when you use a condom for penetrating vaginal. Oral is zero risk, not "limited risk situation"as you describe it. 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 3 adult risks are the following:
1. unprotected penetrating vaginal
2. unprotected penetrating anal sex
3. sharing needles that you inject with. Knowing these 3 are all you need to know to protect yourself against HIV. The situation you describe 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 that encounter a risk for HIV. No one got HIV from the situation you encountered in 40 years and likely no one will in the next 40 of your life, so there is less likelihood of HIV transmission happening than of you getting hit by a meteor as you read this.
Only 3 adult risks are the following:
1. unprotected penetrating vaginal
2. unprotected penetrating anal sex
3. sharing needles that you inject with. Knowing these 3 are all you need to know to protect yourself against HIV. The situation you describe 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 that encounter a risk for HIV. No one got HIV from the situation you encountered in 40 years and likely no one will in the next 40 of your life, so there is less likelihood of HIV transmission happening than of you getting hit by a meteor as you read this.
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