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what is my HIV rsik, having an open hand injury and contact to saliva
Hello
Thanks for the great help you provide in this forum, I was reading through the forum in order to get an answer to my concern.
6 weeks ago i have had a sexual intercourse with a girl with unknown HIV status.
I had fell down just the day before while playing soccer and I had an open injury in the palm of my right hand and my knee, unfortunelty i did not cover my injuries during our sexual intercourse but was trying to make sure not to get my injury in direct skin contact with the girl...as we hugged a bit, other parts of my skin were in direct contact with hers and as it was a bit warm I was in direct contact with her swett...
The girl wanted to offer me non protected oral sex, as she approached me she dropped a big drop of saliva on the side of the head of my penis (circumsized) before me even realise what she was up to. I kind of freaked out and went straight to the bathroom and washed out the saliva... when I got back I put on a condom and she gave me oral sex, but nothing more, we had no other form of sexual intercourse...
The day after I had a cold, went to the doc and said it is a standard summer cold.
4 weeks later i developped s.thg that seemed like ARS with low grade fever and fatigue, at the start I had a soar thorat but hen the soar throat went away but still felt fatigue for the next 4 days, I was sweeting a lot during the night,
I went to the doc he checked my neck lymph nodes and said they do not seem to be swollen and he said it seems like a common stomach viruis flu.
Now I recoverd from my flu, but still I have been feeling frequent non identifiable funny pains in my granular areas, round the groin and under the arms I have been frequently checking my lymph nodes but could not really tell if they are swollen or not...
I must say that during the last month i was a bit stressed about my work but I had no stress reagrding STD till I got the ARS like symptoms.
Do you think I could have caught HIV or any other STD? If so what tests do you recommand me to take?
Thanks a lot for your help
Thanks for the great help you provide in this forum, I was reading through the forum in order to get an answer to my concern.
6 weeks ago i have had a sexual intercourse with a girl with unknown HIV status.
I had fell down just the day before while playing soccer and I had an open injury in the palm of my right hand and my knee, unfortunelty i did not cover my injuries during our sexual intercourse but was trying to make sure not to get my injury in direct skin contact with the girl...as we hugged a bit, other parts of my skin were in direct contact with hers and as it was a bit warm I was in direct contact with her swett...
The girl wanted to offer me non protected oral sex, as she approached me she dropped a big drop of saliva on the side of the head of my penis (circumsized) before me even realise what she was up to. I kind of freaked out and went straight to the bathroom and washed out the saliva... when I got back I put on a condom and she gave me oral sex, but nothing more, we had no other form of sexual intercourse...
The day after I had a cold, went to the doc and said it is a standard summer cold.
4 weeks later i developped s.thg that seemed like ARS with low grade fever and fatigue, at the start I had a soar thorat but hen the soar throat went away but still felt fatigue for the next 4 days, I was sweeting a lot during the night,
I went to the doc he checked my neck lymph nodes and said they do not seem to be swollen and he said it seems like a common stomach viruis flu.
Now I recoverd from my flu, but still I have been feeling frequent non identifiable funny pains in my granular areas, round the groin and under the arms I have been frequently checking my lymph nodes but could not really tell if they are swollen or not...
I must say that during the last month i was a bit stressed about my work but I had no stress reagrding STD till I got the ARS like symptoms.
Do you think I could have caught HIV or any other STD? If so what tests do you recommand me to take?
Thanks a lot for your help
Hi all and thanks aak for your reply
I wanted to update my status as I dont feel my symptoms are back.
It is now one month later; My early symptoms have gone ayway and started getting better, but I had lately quite some stressful time at work meeting deadlines etc...
This week I was over stressed and suddenly I feel like my nodes got swollen under my arm pits and neck... I have a funny little cramps under my hands close to the arm pits and in the upper part of my legs, I had a stressful night last night where I could not realy sleep mainly thinking of my deadline and my health condition, and I did sweat a lot.. I was feeling quite tired due to fatigue and lack of sleep in addition to additional physical effort while playing soccer... today i have totally lost my appetite and was feeling like throwing up....
I also have been loosing weight for the last months (I lost 3 kgs)
I undertsand that stress can cause many of thses symptoms, but I am mainly concerned about my sowllen glands, as I heard thats tress can induce the process of HIV duplication in the glands...
Beside these symtoms I have not experienced any feeling of soar throat fever or itches, I had once a diarahea for one day but it went away... I have noticed also that when I check my glands they feel quite normal after I take a rest and sleep, but at the end of the day i feel as if the get more irritated and bigger...
Please give me some advice; does this sound like some chronical viruis infection as the symptoms showed up one month later, deos it sound like HIV or some other viral infection, I have read that only HIV can cause a generalised gland swollowing, I am realy thinking of testing for HIV but I am very scared of the implication of the results on my personal and professional life...
I wanted to update my status as I dont feel my symptoms are back.
It is now one month later; My early symptoms have gone ayway and started getting better, but I had lately quite some stressful time at work meeting deadlines etc...
This week I was over stressed and suddenly I feel like my nodes got swollen under my arm pits and neck... I have a funny little cramps under my hands close to the arm pits and in the upper part of my legs, I had a stressful night last night where I could not realy sleep mainly thinking of my deadline and my health condition, and I did sweat a lot.. I was feeling quite tired due to fatigue and lack of sleep in addition to additional physical effort while playing soccer... today i have totally lost my appetite and was feeling like throwing up....
I also have been loosing weight for the last months (I lost 3 kgs)
I undertsand that stress can cause many of thses symptoms, but I am mainly concerned about my sowllen glands, as I heard thats tress can induce the process of HIV duplication in the glands...
Beside these symtoms I have not experienced any feeling of soar throat fever or itches, I had once a diarahea for one day but it went away... I have noticed also that when I check my glands they feel quite normal after I take a rest and sleep, but at the end of the day i feel as if the get more irritated and bigger...
Please give me some advice; does this sound like some chronical viruis infection as the symptoms showed up one month later, deos it sound like HIV or some other viral infection, I have read that only HIV can cause a generalised gland swollowing, I am realy thinking of testing for HIV but I am very scared of the implication of the results on my personal and professional life...
you over reacting and you have absoulutly ZERO RISK. i am not the expert here but if you ask anybody on the forum they will tell you the same thing. soar throat and flu have 1000000 other reasons than ARS and low grade fever is very normal its summer time i bet you live in hot area of the world and ARS fever is very high fever not low grade. live your life and forget about this night :)
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