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HIV Prevention and Testing => Do I Have HIV? => Topic started by: serji on July 14, 2013, 09:16:14 am
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I had sucked a hiv+ female's breasts for 2 minutes. About 42 hours ago, I had bitten the underneath of my tongue severely during eating by my teeth and the ulcer formed under my tongue due to this biting has not heeled well yet. I am worried I put myself at hiv risk due to the sucking of the nipples. I am not able to sleep, I toss and turn all night long, I am desperate and miserable. I don't know what to do. I am desperately looking for an scientific and honest opinion if I am at low or high risk. There was no other form of sex whatsoever. Thank you.
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serji,
In adults, hiv is transmitted by:
Unprotected anal intercourse.
Unprotected vaginal intercourse.
Sharing drug injecting equipment.
And that's IT. Sucking nipples is only a risk to tiny babies who rely solely on breast milk as their only form of nourishment. A little bit of breastmilk is NO THREAT to an adult.
Saliva contains over a dozen different proteins and enzymes that damage hiv and render it unable to infect.
Also, hiv is NOT present on the skin, and that include skin on breasts and nipples.
Here's what you need to know in order to avoid hiv infection:
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 the condom and lube links in my signature line so you can use condoms with confidence.
ALTHOUGH YOU ABSOLUTELY DO NOT NEED TO TEST FOR HIV AFTER COMING INTO ORAL CONTACT WITH A WOMAN'S NIPPLES, NOT EVEN A LACTATING WOMAN, 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!
Ann
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I appreciate your quick response,Ann. Thank you for that. However I wish to ask if the juices/fluids from her nipples may have come in contact with my un-heeled ulcer beneath my tongue is a low or high risk? Because she is hiv+, I am severely concerned about the ulcer issue. Thank you once again. I know after this I will only have one more free post left. I would very much apprecaite if you could go into this issue in a little more detailed way, so it could enter my brain deeply. I hope I am in the clear. Do I need to test at all at the appropriate time? :'( :'( :'( :'(. Would it have been any different if she was NOT hiv+?
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serji,
All of our risk assessments are made on the assumption that the other person is hiv positive.
Breast milk is NOT a risk for an adult. Not one adult has EVER been infected through ingesting breast milk and you are NOT going to be the first. It doesn't matter if you had a cut tongue. That does NOT change the fact that you had NO RISK.
Use condoms for anal or vaginal intercourse, correctly and consistently, and you will avoid hiv infection. It really is that simple!!!
Condoms have been proven to prevent hiv infection. There have been three long-term studies of couples where one is positive and one is negative. In the couples who used condoms for anal or vaginal intercourse, but no barrier for oral activities, including breast-sucking, not one of the negative partners became infected with hiv. Not one.
You have NOT had a risk for hiv infection!
Ann
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This is my final post. I wish to say to you that prior to joining this forum, I spent countless hours on the nett and even read some doctor's comments saying it was a risk, albeit a low one. This had got me more worried. I can't understand why there are so many views and conflicting answers to one same question. Do you know why? Another thing I wish to mention is I don't think there was any breast milk. It just tasted good, but I don't know what did or did not come out from the nipples. Is it also possible that nothing came out from the nipples? :( :( Please answer this last post of mine. God bless you! Thank you so very much!
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It is irrelevant what liquid came out of the nipple in your situation. Totally irrelevant because none of it would have presented a risk to you.
Now lay off of surfing the net and of making drama out of a situation which held absolutely no risk of HIV transmission for you. Really.
Get on with your life. Just make sure you're using condoms everytime for vaginal and anal intercourse and you will be well protected.