Menstrual blood exposure from oral sex

[Curiousguy3000]

Hello everyone, I was exposed to my ex girlfriends period blood during oral sex around 2 years ago. We weren’t in an open relationship, but I don’t know much about her sexual past except her reassurance for always using condoms before me. We were together around 3 months prior to the incident, and I never noticed and symptoms on her such as a syphilis rash. We got separated shortly after the incident. I got tested for HIV at a walk-in clinic after around 4.5 months and it was negative (I live somewhere around Middle East if that changes anything). I started a new relationship around a year later, and got tested for HIV, HEP B&C, and syphilis which all came back negative. However, one tube named “Sexually Transmitted Diseases Panel” gave a “wrong tube” error which made me question the validity of the results. So I consulted a bunch of doctors online, and most of them told me that the results are not affected by this “wrong tube” error and they are conclusive. However, I still went to 3 other urologists for face to face confirmation.

Should I get tested for something else? Is there anything that I am missing? I apologize if these questions seem dumb.

[Gazsmithster]

Period blood is no risk for transmitting STI so there never was a risk. Even if there was, your recent panel confirms you are negative.

Anxiety is playing a big part, try to relax and trust when we all say there was never a risk :)

[Curiousguy3000]

Thank you for the quick reply! Do you mean that period blood doesn’t increase the chance of getting STIs? Because I am aware of the risks of oral sex including syphilis. I’m 25 years old btw, was 23 at the time of the event.

[Gazsmithster]

It does not increase the risk, no. And because it happened so long ago and with the recent results, there really is no issue here at all. None

[Curiousguy3000]

I appreciate your reassurance. I’ve got one last question. I’ve read that VDLR test for syphilis is a common screening. However, it may not detect late stages of syphilis. Since my “possible” exposure was around 2 years ago, do you think that the infection went undetected somehow? I asked a similar question to a urologist and he said that the result is negative. But I just want to gather as much info as I can.