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Author Topic: Im scared i had a risk. Please help my situation  (Read 2461 times)

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Offline Chelsea934

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Im scared i had a risk. Please help my situation
« on: October 10, 2016, 04:16:48 pm »
Dear members,

I went to a massage parlour where i recieved protected oral sex and handjob from a girl there.

I went home washed myseld thoroughly and saw that i had i slight skin opening near the tip of my penis (im circumsised).

The semen stayed in the condom once i had finished. She pulled it off and cleaned up with cleaning paper and cleaned with a wipe at the end.

Could someone assess my risk please? Do i need to test? What are the chances of getting hiv from recieving protected oral sex from a girl?

I kissed her skin too, is that a risk?

Thank yiu, i need advicd please :(

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Re: Im scared i had a risk. Please help my situation
« Reply #1 on: October 10, 2016, 04:19:54 pm »
Hi

Nothing you mentioned was a risk for HIV transmission.

Here's what you need to know in order to avoid hiv infection:
Use condoms for anal or vaginal intercourse, correctly and consistently, every time, no exceptions.

Keep in mind that some sexual practices which may be described as ‘safe’ in terms of HIV transmission might still pose a risk for transmission of other STI's.
So please do get fully tested regularly and at least yealry for all STI's including but not limited to HIV and test more frequently if unprotected intercourse occurs
Also note that it is possible to have an STI and show no signs or symptoms and the only way of knowing is by testing.

Kind regards

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Offline Chelsea934

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Re: Im scared i had a risk. Please help my situation
« Reply #2 on: October 10, 2016, 09:05:00 pm »
Hi

Nothing you mentioned was a risk for HIV transmission.

Here's what you need to know in order to avoid hiv infection:
Use condoms for anal or vaginal intercourse, correctly and consistently, every time, no exceptions.

Keep in mind that some sexual practices which may be described as ‘safe’ in terms of HIV transmission might still pose a risk for transmission of other STI's.
So please do get fully tested regularly and at least yealry for all STI's including but not limited to HIV and test more frequently if unprotected intercourse occurs
Also note that it is possible to have an STI and show no signs or symptoms and the only way of knowing is by testing.

Kind regards

Jim

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Hi jim,
Thank you for the reply!

Does the fact i have a small cut on my penis make a difference? It was covered with the condom but what about after it came off?

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Re: Im scared i had a risk. Please help my situation
« Reply #3 on: October 10, 2016, 09:17:51 pm »
Hi

No its makes no difference whatsoever.

As for the wound from what you posted the concern is contact with her fluids outside the human body, HIV is simply not infectouise outside the human body , once hiv finds itself exposed outside the body, small changes in temperature, pH / moisture levels all quickly damage the virus and render it unable to infect.  This is called contact with spillage and nobody have ever been infected this way and that makes perfect sense.

Kissing her is not a risk, end of story its just not.
Getting a BJ even unprotected is not a HIV risk, there simply hasn’t been a single documented case of HIV transmission to an insertive partner (the person being "sucked") and you will not be the first. Now getting a BJ is a risk for other STI's but not HIV.

See biologically, four conditions need to be present for transmission to occur: The virus must be present in an infectious body fluid from the HIV positive person, it must be present at sufficient levels to cause infection. There must be an effective route of transmission, and it must reach susceptible cells in another person.

What you posted here as concern simply did not meet any of the 4 biological conditions needed for HIV transmission.

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Please help! Am i infected?
« Reply #4 on: November 18, 2016, 12:27:34 pm »
Hello there

I had an encounter with a CSW in march.

It was protected oral and protected vaginal but after ejaculating, and pulling out, the condom was hanging out the vagina!

I had an STD test at 8 days, all negative.

HIV tests as follows:

Combo test- 3 weeks 3 days
Rapid antibody- 6 weeks
Rapid antibody - 10 weeks
Combo test - 6 months

All of these were negative. But i cant get it off my mind.

Do you think im truly negative from this encounter?

I also had a girl give me protected oral, and i saw the ejaculation in the condom at the end, but she was quite rough, and afterwards, my penis was quite sore and there was a cut on the side near my tip (i am circumsised, so the skin is quite thin)

Again, im worried about HIV? Should i be? Do i need to test again?

For the past 4 weeks, i have a kinda dry tickly cough, and provably cough 3-4 times a day! Is this anything to worry about? I am a light smoker, 2 cigs a day!

Plsase help

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Re: Im scared i had a risk. Please help my situation
« Reply #5 on: November 18, 2016, 01:18:59 pm »
Nothing has changed from the assessment you received from Jim.
a negative result past 13 weeks is conclusive you do not have HIV, and please do not post about this no risk incident again.

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