hiv scare?

[anxious7]

I need some help guys! December 9,2006 a stripper gave me a handjob. I understand that this is no risk, but there is more.

Before she gave me this handjob, she was fingering herself. She then started to rub me. I closed my eyes for a bit, and all of a sudden I felt wetness on my penis. She was lubing up her hand with her saliva.
Again, I read no risk, but I also have Inverse Psoriasis on my penis. Red patches on head and dry spots on shaft.
Should I be scared because of the psoriasis and the saliva/fingering. During the Holidays my legs were slightly fatigued especially sitting and in bed. Lasted one week. I got tested at 24 days Negative for HIV and STD's. The day after I got tested I got a sore throat no cold and my groin started hurting between my belly button and penis. Pain is still there 10 days later Sore throat still present. Any help is appreciated. Thank You All! Great Forum!!

[anxious7]

Forgot to ask, where are the lymph nodes located in the groin?? Do they hurt when they are swollen?

[Xhost]

If you came strictly for an assessment of your risk, then here it is: zero. The activity that you describe, a hand job (even with the saliva lube) is not a risk for HIV infection. It is the safest sex that you can have in terms of HIV infection, along with mutual masturbation, fingering, dry humping, sensual massage, etc.

So, you can officially stop worrying now. You could not, did not catch HIV, or any other STD, from the experience that you described.

Take care,

xhost

[anxious7]

xhost, Thank you for the reply. My main concern is the psoriasis on my penis. red sore spots but not bleedind now or then. Why do I have pain in the soft part of my groin (above the penis) and a sore throat both for about 8 days now? Thanks Again for your last post.

[Xhost]

Hey Anxious,

Seems your name is fairly descriptive of where your head is at right now. Don't worry, it will go away in time.

I am not sure why you are feeling the way you are right now. It might be anxiety, it might be something else. But what I know is that it isn't HIV. How do I know that? Because HIV is not transmitted in the ways that you might think it is.

First, HIV is not all that easy a virus to catch. I know, the tendency is to think that all viruses are the same, or all STDs are the same. They aren't.

HIV is a particularly fragile virus (heck, most viruses are fragile, but HIV is even more fragile than usual in terms of viruses). HIV needs to infect a particular type of cell in your body, and it can't do that via a hand job, or incidental contact with the skin. It just doesn't work that way. That is why no one has ever been documented to have ever caught it from receiving a hand job, even if saliva was used as a lubricant.

A little more about that last statement. You are certainly not the first in the last 30 years to have gotten a hand job where saliva is used to lubricate the action. Hell, it happens every single day. Every day. And it has never been shown to be a means to transmit HIV. In over 30 years.

The simple fact is this: you won't be the first to have it happen, because it doesn't happen this way. Saliva is not a transmitter of HIV, nor is skin to skin contact.

If you are worried about what is going on in your body, go see a doctor and let he or she examine you. Explain your concerns, and listen to what the doctor tells you. If anxiety is overwhelming you, tell the doctor that too. Because surely, your biggest concern right now is anxiety, and all of its manifestations, not HIV. And you can take that to the bank.