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Worried about infection after recieving oral sex
Hi i recieved a blowjob from a man. I am worried because i later noticed i have a small tear on my foreskin and i am wondering if i could get infected if they are hiv positive. They told me they are not but i dont know this person well enough to trust them.
I am stressing out and not sure what to do or if i should take pep as a precaution. I didnt see any visible signs of cuts or ulcers around mouth.
Please help
I am stressing out and not sure what to do or if i should take pep as a precaution. I didnt see any visible signs of cuts or ulcers around mouth.
Please help
When did this happen? How long ago, I mean. The only risks for HIV are unprotected vaginal or anal sex or sharing IV needles to inject drugs. Air and saliva inactivate the virus making oral sex not a way people get HIV
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2 days ago this happened.thatbis why im stressing out.
I understand all the comments,.but im just struggling to underatand that this is not technically a risk however small and i shouldnt get tested or start pep
You have no medical training yet you ignored all the advice here and only believe your own ideas - which you should instead have zero faith in, not 100%. That illogical thinking, that your ideas can be comparable to 40 years of hiv researchers, is the crux of your anxiety.
See a therapist, because this is not a biology class for people with hiv fixation and no biology background & is not a place to cure anxiety. It's an hiv prevention forum and you don't have hiv & you have been advised of the only ways to get hiv.
See a therapist, because this is not a biology class for people with hiv fixation and no biology background & is not a place to cure anxiety. It's an hiv prevention forum and you don't have hiv & you have been advised of the only ways to get hiv.
Your situation involves personal contact with an object in air ( body, fluids, mouth, maybe blood, cuts, maybe ulcers, etc. ). You will be happy to learn that you had no risk, because you can't get hiv from personal contact except unprotected penetrating vaginal or anal with a penis, neither of which you did and you didn't share hollow needles to inject with which is the only other way to acquire hiv - there are ONLY 3 ways to get hiv. Note that 2 of them require a penis and the third requires a hollow injecting shared needle - there are no OTHER ways to get hiv. Analysis of large numbers of infected people over the 40 years of hiv history has proven that people don't get hiv in the way you are worried is a risk.
Hiv is a fragile virus in air or saliva and is effectively instantly dead in either air or saliva so the WORST that could happen is dead virus rubbed you, and obviously anything which is dead cannot live again so you are good. Blood and cuts would not be relevant in your situation since the hiv has become effectively dead, so you don't have to worry about them to be sure that you are safe.
There is no reason for a person to test when they are safe. The advice took into consideration that the other person might be positive, so move on and enjoy life instead of thinking about this non-event. hiv prevention is straightforward since there are only 3 ways you can become infected, so next time you wonder if you had a risk, ask yourself this QUESTION. "Did I do any of the 3?" Then after you ANSWER "No, I didn't" you will know that it's time to move on back to your happy life.
No one got hiv from what you did during 40 years of hiv history and no one will get it in the next 40 years of your life either. You can do what you did any time and be safe from hiv.
The other person's status is irrelevant when you have no exposure to live virus. You can't get hiv when you use a condom, and if it failed it would rip wide open down the seam so that didn't happen.
Taking PEP would be an expensive waste of time.
Hiv is a fragile virus in air or saliva and is effectively instantly dead in either air or saliva so the WORST that could happen is dead virus rubbed you, and obviously anything which is dead cannot live again so you are good. Blood and cuts would not be relevant in your situation since the hiv has become effectively dead, so you don't have to worry about them to be sure that you are safe.
There is no reason for a person to test when they are safe. The advice took into consideration that the other person might be positive, so move on and enjoy life instead of thinking about this non-event. hiv prevention is straightforward since there are only 3 ways you can become infected, so next time you wonder if you had a risk, ask yourself this QUESTION. "Did I do any of the 3?" Then after you ANSWER "No, I didn't" you will know that it's time to move on back to your happy life.
No one got hiv from what you did during 40 years of hiv history and no one will get it in the next 40 years of your life either. You can do what you did any time and be safe from hiv.
The other person's status is irrelevant when you have no exposure to live virus. You can't get hiv when you use a condom, and if it failed it would rip wide open down the seam so that didn't happen.
Taking PEP would be an expensive waste of time.
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Ignore this sentence because it's irrelevant since oral is zero risk. >" You can't get hiv when you use a condom, and if it failed it would rip wide open down the seam so that didn't happen. "
Thanks for your help. I forgot to mention it was unprotected.
It was my understanding that if i had a cut on my penis and they had bleeding gums or a cut in their mouth then the virus would still be live if they were positive and could be transmitted.
I hope you mean it still cant get transfered in this scenario.
Thanks for the reply
It was my understanding that if i had a cut on my penis and they had bleeding gums or a cut in their mouth then the virus would still be live if they were positive and could be transmitted.
I hope you mean it still cant get transfered in this scenario.
Thanks for the reply
Hi, sorry, could you confirm that i understand correctly that even if we both had cuts on penis and mouth and being unprotected, the virus still wpuldnt transfer.
Since you didn't answer the QUESTION, I'll do it for you. Answer> No there wasn't a penis in my anus during the bj and he didn't inject me with a hollow needle so I had zero risk ( stated multiple times above btw) and should move on instead of asking irrelevant questions that have the word "if" in them.
Yes, I noticed after my first post that it was unprotected which is why my second post told you to ignore my sentence about condom.
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