HIV - Reading a lot, but still worried.

[loui678]

I've done a lot of reading here and beyond (google has provided some worrying material), and perhaps this is a moot point. But I'd like to hear somebody's opinion on this, and I'd greatly appreciate it if someone could get back to me.

I have always considered myself a safe individual. Of my three anal sex experiences I used condoms, and also used condoms on and off with oral sex, although I have for the past year always used condoms for oral. Oral sex is as far as I go with sex, so I never though I'd be at risk for HIV, especially when it comes to masturbation.

I ended up masturbating two guys which I do not know the HIV status for. I did not even bother to ask since masturbation is the safest of all sexual practices. However after the first man ejaculated over my hands, I took a piece of paper to clean up my hand and realized what I had forgotten. Three hours earlier at work I had abraded my left hand against a wall chipping off part of the wall and my skin near my wrist.  I bled minutely, so I simply ignored it. But three hours later, no crust had formed and the circular, redish lesion was plainly visible (about half a centimeter in diameter). I had already started to jerk the other guy off, but my worry grew so intensely that I had to stop and leave.

I do not remember if ejaculate actually ran over the abrasion/cut, but in any case I poured hand sanitizer over both my hands and also over the lesion which then burned intensely. Could I have then carried HIV from my fingers to my lesion together with the sanitizer?

I've read so many responses here about cuts, skin, but I truly am still not sure about this. People on other forums claim that transmission is inevitable, while most here seem to agree that it is simply impossible.

When is the soonest I could go for a quick test? is it truly 6 days?
Someone said that only a cut as large as the need to run to as hospital is actually capable of transferring HIV. What size of a cut or abrasion is truly conductive of hiv? and how long does hiv stay alive for outside the body? Does it die immediately when it touched my hand due to a ph and temperature change or does it survive up to 10 hours like some claim?

I thank you in advance for your help.

[Vance2335]

NeedHelp2112 is 100% wrong. Masterbation is not a risk no matter cuts or anything else. And you do not need testing. Reasons are because trivial cuts and scratches are part of everyday life, they basically have "healed" when they stop bleeding due to the clotting of the blood. This provides a barrier. Also a small cut or anything of that nature is not deep enough and does not provide a route to the blood stream for transmission.
And you really need more then a little amount of anything for an actual risk.

Now had you said you had a finger that was cut off and was bleeding then you might have a risk but other then that it is no risk.

NeedHelp2112 I suggest you go into the Experts Forum and read what the Dr's have to say on this issue. That might set you straight.

[NeedHelp2112]

Despite the comment made of "Mastrubation is not a risk"  you are at risk. What the poster blindly ignores is the issue of semen contacting your cut. Masturbation in and of itself is not a risk. That is true. Just like a gun is not in and of itself a risk. But, pull the triggr and fire it, then it becomes a risk. He is ignoring the fact that there was ejaculatory fluid involved. Clearly a potential carrier of HIV. While the risk is low you should be tested at the 3 month mark.

[loui678]

No matter what, not even if cuts and abrasions are present? HIV is not transmissible once outside the body? That is my main concern.

I read a response saying that if semen touches the wound, then you're at risk.
Thank you so much

[Teak]

Masturbation is not a risk of contracting HIV.