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HIV Prevention and Testing => Do I Have HIV? => Topic started by: jamesejm on March 28, 2009, 06:47:58 am
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Dear Ann,
hope you can help me.. i recently got a blow job and i fingered her for a long period and also kissed her- deep kissing for sometime and on many occasions. shd i worry of hiv/std.
can i get std from kissing? shd i go for test?
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James,
I removed your post from another person's thread and created your own thread, which is the ONLY place you should be posting in these forums.
Make sure you read the posting guidelines found in our Welcome Thread (http://forums.poz.com/index.php?topic=220.0) and while you're there, click on the link to the Transmission Lesson.
Getting a blowjob is NOT a risk for hiv infection. Not only is saliva not infectious, but it also contains over a dozen different proteins and enzymes that damage hiv and render it unable to infect. Kissing, deep or otherwise, is also not a risk for the same reason.
Fingering, with or without cuts, hangnails, chewed nails, etc, is also not a risk for hiv infection.
Not one person has ever been infected through getting a blowjob, kissing or fingering and you aren't going to be the first.
You need to be using condoms for anal or vaginal intercourse, every time, no exceptions until such time as you are in a securely monogamous relationship where you have both tested for ALL sexually transmitted infections together. To agree to have unprotected intercourse is to consent to the possibility of being infected with an STI. Sex without a condom lasts only a matter of minutes, but hiv is forever.
Have a look through all three condom and lube links in my signature line so you can use condoms with confidence.
ALTHOUGH YOU DO NOT NEED TO TEST OVER A BLOWJOB, FINGERING OR KISSING, 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.
Use condoms for anal or vaginal intercourse, correctly and consistently, and you will avoid hiv infection. It really is that simple.
Ann
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Hi Ann,
Many thanks for the reply... its a relief that there is no fear as far as hiv is concerned.
however, i got into this relationship having no chance to go thru any test...as it only lasted 1 week. there was no intercouse but as i discribes- deep kissing, lots of fingering and bj with condom. i do not know of her std status- with such exposure do i need test for std?
please advice
Thanks!!
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James,
No, you don't need any sort of testing.
Ann
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Thanks so much Ann~!!!!!
appreciate all....