Another transmission question

[mike255]

This question maybe far fetched and quite stupid but I will ask anyway.  I recently went to a strip club and while I was sitting at the bar, a stripper who seemed pretty drugged up sat next to me and licked my earlobe.  After a few minutes had gone by, my ear still felt wet so I finally wiped the saliva off.  I happened to have a very small wound (2-3mm) that was in the healing process on that same earlobe that was licked.
  
When I arrived home later that night, I started picking at my wound  and it started to bleed a little.  Since I have read that you can get hep b from saliva which can live outstide the body for a long time on surfaces and if this stripper had hep b, then should I try and get the immune globulin shot?

It's been 4 days since possible exposure.  Is it too late?  Thanks.

[zellyf]

I was infected with Hepatitis B for about 25 years when I met my husband.  We found out that I was infected when I was pregnant so suffice it to say that our relationship had gone years beyond the ear-licking phase.  He was tested and was negative.  

I think you are getting ahead of yourself.  Your exposure was hardly risky.  If you're really concerned then get tested.  No amount of speculation in this forum can diagnose you.  

[cajim]

If your HBsAg is negative and anti-HBs is negative too, then hurry to get vaccinated.

[mike255]

Thanks for the replies.  So I guess it's too late for the immune globulin shot?  

Just to be more clear on what happened, she only licked my sore ear lobe for about 5 seconds and then I pulled away.  I guess that's all that takes and what sticks in my mind is that she looked very incoherent like she was on heroin.  I really didn't think this was a risky situation until knowing that saliva is contagious.  

Anyways, do you suggest that I wait to get the vaccine until after I test for this virus since I may have contracted it anyway?

Thanks

  

[meki]

GET YOUR HEP B VACCINATION...

Bottom line - take responsibility for your actions...

*GRIN* --- although if I were a guy at a strip club ---- *GRIN*

[cajim]

It is not that easy to get HBV: you may be immune, stripper may not have HBV, you are an adult, etc.

To be sure,

1.  Avoid all risky contacts.

2.  Have a lab test for HBsAg, if negative for 3 months or so, you are fine.