Do i need help? 13 years old.

[blitzboy]

im only 13 but here it goes .Ok hey guys im new here but about 3-4 months ago a person at school a guy (who has preformed oral and recieved oral from 2 other guys) Had a cut on his leg So he flicked the blood i was sitting next to him and his blood cut in a cut of mine and on my lip possibly in my mouth. After that about 2-4 weeks or so after i got sick Head hurting fatigue nose draining and stopped up sore throat. Then i got better then 2 days latter it came back. So im only 13 so im not going to tell my dad i need a aids test. so please tell me your opions

[Ann]

Blitz,

For a start, it's not an "aids test", it's an hiv test. And you don't need one.

The only time this sort of thing would be a risk is in a scenario something like this:

You come across a car accident and want to help. You're trying to help the person in the car, who is bleeding heavily. You cut yourself DEEPLY in the process of trying to help and you then get large amounts of his blood into your fresh, DEEP cut.

The fact that you got sick a couple weeks later is totally just a coincidence.

Here's what you need to know in order to remain hiv negative:


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 THIS INCIDENT, 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.

When you begin to be sexually active, you should start having sexual health check-ups at least once a year and more often if unprotected intercourse occurs. 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

[blitzboy]

Thank you so even if he had hiv i dont need to worry or ?

[blitzboy]

any more opions?

[Ann]

Blitz,

ALL of the hiv risk assessments in this forum are given with the assumption that the other person is hiv positive.

Hiv is simply not transmitted in the way you're worried about. It is a very fragile virus. Once outside the human body, small changes in temperature and pH and moisture levels all quickly damage the virus and render it unable to infect.

Hiv can only infect a very few, very specific types of cells. These cells are not found on the surface of the skin - or lips, for that matter. They are also not found in shallow cuts or cuts that have not just that moment happened.

You are seriously worrying over nothing.

Use condoms for anal or vaginal intercourse, correctly and consistently, and you will avoid hiv infection. IT REALLY IS THAT SIMPLE!!!

Ann

[blitzboy]

why did i get sick twice though?

[Ann]

blitz,

You got sick because you came across some illness. It happens. The illness that SOME people (not all) experience when they've been infected with hiv does not come and go like yours did.

What we can say with certainty is that whatever bug cause you to feel unwell, it wasn't a bug called hiv because you did NOT have a risk for hiv infection.

If you continue to feel unwell, see your doctor. Whatever is going on has NOTHING to do with hiv.

Ann

[blitzboy]

Ok so im 14 years old. About 9 months ago at school a kid that is HIV Posative. Had blood all over his hand he shook his hand it got all over my mouth and a cut on my finger about week or so later i started having symptoms of fatigue headaches soar throats things of the common cold / flu I got better 3 days later the soar throat came back then went away. Then thats the last ive seen about it. I dont want a hiv test im only 14 my dad would think im having sex or somthing. What should i do what are your opinions.

[Matty the Damned]

Blitz,

Thank you for returning to your thread.

You cannot catch HIV from getting blood in your mouth or on your hands - even if there are cuts on your fingers. HIV is spread in very specific ways, which you can learn about if you read our Welcome Thread and follow the links to our Lessons on transmission.

Whatever made you feel ill, it wasn't HIV. You were not at risk of infection and you do not need to be tested.

MtD

[Ann]

blitz,

You asked about this in April. Our answers are not going to change.

Ann

[blitzboy]

But the CDC says its possible even through very very small cuts and sores.

[Ann]

Blitz,

So go test and collect your negative result.

You have NOT had a risk.


If you read the Welcome Thread before posting like you're supposed to, you will have read the following posting guideline:

Anyone who continues to post excessively, questioning a conclusive negative result or no-risk situation, will be subject to a four week Time Out (a temporary ban from the Forums). If you continue to post excessively after one Time Out, you may be given a second Time Out which will last eight weeks. There is no third Time Out - it is a permanent ban. The purpose of a Time Out is to encourage you to seek the face-to-face help we cannot provide on this forum.

Please consider yourself warned!

Ann

[blitzboy]

Hey guys back again with another incident i want to have clarifyed please. i had poped pimples on my nose that were bleeding that day. A friend of mine was being an ***Hole and rubbed his finger on his bleeding cut on his lip and reached over and touched my Pimple. with blood all over his finger few weeks later my throat got sore i had a headache temperature fatigue and night sweats what is going on please help.

[Andy Velez]

Once again you are worrying needlessly. The real risks for HIV transmission have been thoroughly explained to you in the past. You need to apply that information as you go forward in your life. HIV is a fragile virus and is absolutely NOT transmitted in the manner of your latest concern.

There is no need to worry or to get tested. If you have symptoms that are bothering you that is something to discuss with your doctor.

Keep it simple and follow the guidelines which Ann and others have already explained to you.

[blitzboy]

 what were all of your symptoms you guys had before you got your test.

[Nestor]

Do you mean sero-conversion symptoms--just after being infected? 

[Miss Philicia]

Do you mean sero-conversion symptoms--just after being infected? 

blitzboy shouldn't be posting outside of Am I Infected, nor should anyone else here reply to him.

[LoboDog]

Symptoms:
Low grade fever that lasted a month,
Diarhea that lasted for over a month.
Thrush (didn't even know I had that one until the doc told me)

I tested positive and was told that I had full blown AIDS.

I don't think I noticed anything back when I seroconverted.  

[blitzboy]

yes  sero-conversion

[LoboDog]

blitzboy shouldn't be posting outside of Am I Infected, nor should anyone else here reply to him.

If we can in any way encourage him to go get the test, would that not be a good thing.

I keep reading about people in here testing positive with full blown AIDS. It is better to avoid that.

[Miss Philicia]

If we can in any way encourage him to go get the test, would that not be a good thing.

I keep reading about people in here testing positive with full blown AIDS. It is better to avoid that.

I don't make the rules here, and neither do you -- but I do know what the rules are.  If you doubt what the rules are for blitzboy then go read the Welcome Thread in the Am I Infected section of the forum.  

http://forums.poz.com/index.php?topic=220.0

You can also read blitzboy's thread in Am I Infected where it's clear he's had no risk situation

http://forums.poz.com/index.php?topic=32027.0

[blitzboy]

Actually This is the right place , Pluss its not a question about being infected im just wondering.

[Miss Philicia]

Actually This is the right place , Pluss its not a question about being infected im just wondering.

from my link below:

With the exception of the “Am I Infected?” and “Off Topic” Forums, the AIDSmeds.com Forums are intended for people who have been diagnosed with HIV (or their loved ones/caregivers).  If you are questioning or unaware of your HIV status, please refrain from posting messages or questions in the Forums intended for HIV-positive people.

[blitzboy]

Ok guys i have a quick question What symptoms did everyone have right after they got infected?

[Miss Philicia]

blitzboy shouldn't be posting outside of Am I Infected, nor should anyone else here reply to him.

and yes blitzboy, posting in here about sero conversion symptoms isn't allowed in Off Topic.  Off Topic is for non-HIV related topics.  You're just trying to circumvent the rules as laid for you here:

http://forums.poz.com/index.php?topic=33974.0

I have reported this thread, like the previous one, to the moderators

[blitzboy]

Rofl... am i allowed to ask anywhere? pluss what about all the threads i saw in off topic about hiv? do somthing about those.

[jkinatl2]

I see that Philly has quoted the relevant information. This is sacred ground. It is meant for positive people only. And Lobodog, with a scant eight posts behind you, I highly recommend the lessons section and the rules of the forums. They do vary a little form thread to thread, but this is NOT the place for worried wells to trawl for symptoms.


Blitz has posted here for some time, with worries about HIV from a friend rubbing his nose after he popped a zit and the like. We keep him and his ilk contained in the AM I forum because, as much as this is an informational forum, it is a support forum first. We created a WHOLE FORUM for people who are not infected with HIV to ask questions, along with a lengthy lessons and transmission section. If we were to allow everyone who has had a lap dance or eaten food they suspect an HIV positive person has touched, it would fall upon itself.

In time, you will understand why.

I have reported Blitz's comment here to the moderators, who will dispatch it shortly.

[Miss Philicia]

All of your HIV-related questions must stay in the Am I Infection section, in one thread, if you have not been diagnosed with HIV.

[LoboDog]

I read his posts, yeah the liklyhood of him being infected from what he said are almost nill. What if he is not being honest though. At 14 I was already tramping around town. It was a different time, but I don't know if I would have admitted it even on the internet.

I've never been one to follow the rules when I thought they were fucked up. There isn't so much traffice on this message board that we can't answer a question or 2 from a teenager. Part of living with this fucking disease means interacting with society. I would prefer that society and the next generation be as educated as possible. Answering the politely worded questions posed by a teen is the least we could do towards that end.

[jkinatl2]

If we can in any way encourage him to go get the test, would that not be a good thing.

I keep reading about people in here testing positive with full blown AIDS. It is better to avoid that.

This is not about encouraging someone to take the HIV test. Goddess knows that this poster, as most posters in AM I do that. Over and over and over. And when they are reliably, assuredly HIV negative, they decide that someone spilled blood in their food, or swatted a mosquito filled with HIV blood on them.

Dude, this is why we HAVE different forums. PLEASE learn the lay of the land here. It is set up to keep this place from becoming a complete shitstorm - and even then, with only moderate to gently high success

[jkinatl2]

I read his posts, yeah the liklyhood of him being infected from what he said are almost nill. What if he is not being honest though. At 14 I was already tramping around town. It was a different time, but I don't know if I would have admitted it even on the internet.

I've never been one to follow the rules when I thought they were fucked up. There isn't so much traffice on this message board that we can't answer a question or 2 from a teenager. Part of living with this fucking disease means interacting with society. I would prefer that society and the next generation be as educated as possible. Answering the politely worded questions posed by a teen is the least we could do towards that end.

You lost me at "almost nil."

[jkinatl2]

Lobo, we encourage EVERY sexually active person who posts in AM I INFECTED to get a complete STD panel, including an HIV test, at least twice a year. We DO NOT allow uninfected persons, as a whole, to post in LIVING WITH.

[Ann]

Blitzboy,

I have merged the two threads you started in forums you should not have been posting in and merged them together with your original thread, which is the ONLY place on these forums you should post. Technically, you should not be posting anywhere on these forums as you are only thirteen.

If I ever catch you posting outside your own thread again, you will be permanently banned.

Ann