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Author Topic: Scared of condom tear  (Read 2354 times)

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Offline nedelkovski

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Scared of condom tear
« on: October 04, 2013, 11:47:27 am »
Hello

I know that the answers will not help me to define my hiv status, but i am looking for your assessment of how risky was my situation,

I had sex with a girl that i dont know her status , but i know that she had a lot of sex partners. I put polyisoprene condom but i was drunk that night. I didnt feel that the condom broke and i asked my partner she said that it didnt. But I am afraid of tears on the condom cuzz she had piercing on her vagina and the condom was exposed on a heat before about 10 hours.

After three days after i learnt that she was having a lot of partners I was starting to worry a lot. The next day I was having mild fiver and soar throat. After 3 weeks I started to feel week, muscle aches and lost weight. I made HIV test and it came negative, but its to soon for that. After 6 weeks i have swollen lymph nodes and I am really scared, I dont know what my future holds. If you can help me with your opinions on my situation I will be very thankfull.

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Re: Scared of condom tear
« Reply #1 on: October 04, 2013, 01:06:04 pm »
You say you didnt think the condom broke and she says it definitely did not break so that would be a no risk situation .

Since I have no idea if the condom broke ( it sounds like it didn't ) you are the one who has to decide what happened . I'm not making judgements but drinking and sex has led to many a HIV infections , so you may want to limit sex to times when your judgement and memory isn't impaired .

Anyone who is sexually active should be having a full sexual health care check-up, including but not limited to hiv testing, at least once a year and more often if unprotected intercourse occurs.

If you aren't already having regular, routine check-ups, now is the time to start. As long as you make sure condoms are being used for intercourse, you can fully expect your routine hiv tests to return with negative results.

Don't forget to always get checked for all the other sexually transmitted infections as well, because they are MUCH easier to transmit than hiv. Some of the other STIs can be present with no obvious symptoms, so the only way to know for sure is to test.

Use condoms for anal or vaginal intercourse, correctly and consistently, and you will avoid hiv infection. It really is that simple!

If you are not sure what happened that night then a good time to begin your sexual health checkups would be 6 weeks past any possible exposure and again at 3 months to confirm the results . Best of luck . 
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Re: Scared of condom tear
« Reply #2 on: October 04, 2013, 08:18:17 pm »
After 3-4 days from the exposure i felt mild fever that passed after 3-4 days and sore throat that is still lasting(6 weeks). After 3 weeks i was feeling tired and weak and my muscles started pain.After 6 weeks i felt tirednes and muscles pain again and swollen lymph glands under my jaw. I gave blood and the doctor said that i have some VIRAL INFECTION.Tested hiv negative at 3.5 weeks. I am worried the detected viral infection is related to hiv infection and these symptoms are related to hiv. Thank you in advance.

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Re: Scared of condom tear
« Reply #3 on: October 04, 2013, 08:32:28 pm »
Only post in this one thread and do not start another . If you cant find your thread go to your profile and select show own post and it will take you here .

I have answered your questions already so please read what I provided already .

Your symptoms are not specific to HIV so we do not discuss symptoms . If you are sick you need to see a doctor .
HIV 101 - Basics
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You can read more about Transmission and Risks here:
HIV Transmission and Risks
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You can read more about Treatment-as-Prevention (TasP) here:
HIV TasP
You can read more about HIV prevention here:
HIV prevention
You can read more about PEP and PrEP here
PEP and PrEP

 


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