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Should I be worried?
So on August 15 I had sex with another man. I gave him oral sex and he penetrated me with a condom although it didn’t really go in all the way since luberication was low. The next day I notice the my lips felt tingling with a burning sensation plus I also noticed a burning sensation in my groin every time I peed. A week later I was tested for std, and hiv and everything was negative. The burning sensation when I peed continue for about 4 days when I realize how bad it was getting. To the point where my whole face felt hot like I had a fever but when I went to the er I showed no fever. They did put me on antibiotics and that seems to work. But Ive been so stressed lately i can’t eat or sleep well. Hiv positive is all I can think of. I’ve been checking my body for rashes and my lymph nodes and at the moment it all looks normal. I know it’s to soon to tell but I also bought a oral quick test kit and it was negative, I know it’s not a reliable result but I’m just so stress! Should I be worried or am I overreacting?
It seems ER has cured your only problem. You had no risk for HIV so any test including the one you took to be a waste of time. There are only 3 ways HIV can be transmitted and you didn't do any of them.
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 with a penis
2. unprotected penetrating anal sex with a penis
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. No one got HIV from what you did in 40 years of HIV history, so likely no one will in the next 40 years of your life, so doctors have calculated the risk from what you did to be less than that of being hit by a meteorite.
Symptoms prove nothing so the first step to peace from HIV worries is to quit Googling for HIV Death cold turkey and to stop examining your body.
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 with a penis
2. unprotected penetrating anal sex with a penis
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. No one got HIV from what you did in 40 years of HIV history, so likely no one will in the next 40 years of your life, so doctors have calculated the risk from what you did to be less than that of being hit by a meteorite.
Symptoms prove nothing so the first step to peace from HIV worries is to quit Googling for HIV Death cold turkey and to stop examining your body.
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Even all with all these symptoms I’ve been having like fever like feeling(even though the thermometer says different.) My mouth also feels like cotton like, though it might be due to the antibiotic? Or I’ve notice I’m lossing weight? I don’t have diarrhea my appetite is low, could that all be stress? Like I said before I’m reslly stressed out! No joke!
Reread about the 3, 40, meteorite, and only.
HIV isn't the only disease in the world and the fact you claim fever but the thermometer definitively says you don't have a fever indicates the weakness in your attempt to self-diagnose with no medical training.
HIV isn't the only disease in the world and the fact you claim fever but the thermometer definitively says you don't have a fever indicates the weakness in your attempt to self-diagnose with no medical training.
I’ll try to be calm and get tested in 3 months and go from there. thanks for your time!
There is nothing to test for, so you might as well test to see if he made you pregnant. You don't have any medical training so it is unrealistic for you to dismiss 40 years of science in favor of your own made up theory that you had a risk. You need to talk to your doctor about how biology works and if that doesn't work, see a therapist instead of living in fear for zero reason.
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