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advice for testing
Hello, I am a 26 yr old male who lives in England. Thought it might be easier if I do a timeline/bullet point of my exposures.
Mid 2007.
Had protected vaginal sex with a female escort. Penetration lasted about 10 minutes. Had allsorts of HIV symptoms between 2 – 8 weeks after, even though I used a condom. Also received oral without a condom. I did send the girl a message asking about HIV & STD’s and she said I’ve got nothing to worry about as she was negative but I decided to test for HIV, STD & Hep B 5 weeks later at a gum clinic. All results where negative/clear of diseases. I presume the HIV test was a standard antibody test.
April 2008
Had protected sex and received oral sex from a female escort – both protected using a condom. We changed the condom after the oral and used a fresh one for the vaginal sex. Penetration lasted about 5 / 6 minutes. I asked the girl about STD’s and she said she was clear and gets tested every 8 weeks.
June 08
Protected sex and received oral sex from a female escort – both protected using a condom. Penetration lasted about 3 / 4 minutes.
September 08
Protected vaginal sex with a female escort. Penetration lasted about 5 / 6 minutes. Received oral without a condom, therefore went for get tested for Chlamydia and Gonorrhoea 10 days later and none of theses showed up/negative.
January 09
Protected vaginal sex but received unprotected oral, again from a female escort. I asked the girl about STD’s and she said she was clear and gets tested once a month.
Basically I’ve always had vaginal sex, no anal sex, always used a condom for penetration, had a negative HIV in mid 2007 (albeit only 5 weeks after my last bout of protected vaginal sex) and had protected sex with 4 female escorts since and I tested clear for Chlamydia and Gonorrhoea after receiving unprotected oral back in August 2008.
Would you say my overall risk for HIV is low/zero?
Thanks, Rob
Mid 2007.
Had protected vaginal sex with a female escort. Penetration lasted about 10 minutes. Had allsorts of HIV symptoms between 2 – 8 weeks after, even though I used a condom. Also received oral without a condom. I did send the girl a message asking about HIV & STD’s and she said I’ve got nothing to worry about as she was negative but I decided to test for HIV, STD & Hep B 5 weeks later at a gum clinic. All results where negative/clear of diseases. I presume the HIV test was a standard antibody test.
April 2008
Had protected sex and received oral sex from a female escort – both protected using a condom. We changed the condom after the oral and used a fresh one for the vaginal sex. Penetration lasted about 5 / 6 minutes. I asked the girl about STD’s and she said she was clear and gets tested every 8 weeks.
June 08
Protected sex and received oral sex from a female escort – both protected using a condom. Penetration lasted about 3 / 4 minutes.
September 08
Protected vaginal sex with a female escort. Penetration lasted about 5 / 6 minutes. Received oral without a condom, therefore went for get tested for Chlamydia and Gonorrhoea 10 days later and none of theses showed up/negative.
January 09
Protected vaginal sex but received unprotected oral, again from a female escort. I asked the girl about STD’s and she said she was clear and gets tested once a month.
Basically I’ve always had vaginal sex, no anal sex, always used a condom for penetration, had a negative HIV in mid 2007 (albeit only 5 weeks after my last bout of protected vaginal sex) and had protected sex with 4 female escorts since and I tested clear for Chlamydia and Gonorrhoea after receiving unprotected oral back in August 2008.
Would you say my overall risk for HIV is low/zero?
Thanks, Rob
As long as the condoms were used everytime for vaginal sex and the condom did not fail and you used it properly then you don't have a risk for HIV.
I think you would know if a condom broke on you or at the very least seen that it broken when you pulled it off.
To be honest I don't know, I have a thought but I don't want to state it because it could be bad information and that is something I don't want to do. (Give bad info)
found this which explains a bit - http://www.ucsf-ahp.org/HTML2/services_test_assessing.html
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