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Babacanfatih:
"Hello, I lived with my family for 4 months without knowing I was HIV positive. I was frequently masturbating into the toilet. Sometimes I cleaned it, but sometimes I forgot. Now, my family is very sick, and we are experiencing the same  symptoms, and I am very scared. While doing this, I was in the acute phase and probably had a high viral load. Now I am asking: the toilet seat is very narrow, and there is an area where the penis touches when sitting.  and sperm was spilled there. Now I am asking, could it have been transmitted to my family?"  I would like to point out that the incident is serious and my family has been sick for a long time.

Jim Allen:
Hiya.

Just want to confirm you are living with HIV?

What treatment are you taking and what was your latest viral load & CD4 counts?

Babacanfatih:
Hi jim , When I was first diagnosed, my RNA count was 570,000 (LYM% 39.6 and LYM# 2.59). In my most recent tests, my RNA count is 1,200 and my CD4 count is 750.
I am using Biktarvy.

Jim Allen:
Thanks for the update.

The results are good. 570K wasn't very high to begin with but a drop to 1200 is good and means treatment is working, give it a few weeks/months and the viral load should be fully suppressed (Below 200 copies) The CD4s are great.


--- Quote ---Now, my family is very sick, and we are experiencing the same  symptoms
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I presume you have not been sharing syringes or having condomless sex with your family members, so whatever symptoms you & your family are experiencing have nothing to do with your HIV status.


--- Quote ---I was frequently masturbating into the toilet. Sometimes I cleaned it, but sometimes I forgot.
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--- Quote ---Now I am asking, could it have been transmitted to my family?
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Zero chance you gave your family HIV by sharing a toilet regardless of what fluids you left on it. 

Decades ago, toilet HIV risk concerns were busted, partly because HIV is too fragile as once exposed outside the confines of the human body, the receptors corrode leaving HIV unable to infect, so it's not an HIV risk, nobody has ever acquired HIV from using a toilet.

Common Myths About How HIV Is Spread
https://forums.poz.com/index.php?topic=68441.0

5 of the weirdest HIV transmission myths
https://www.beintheknow.org/news-and-blogs/5-weirdest-hiv-transmission-myths-ever


--- Quote ---could it have been transmitted to my family?
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In brief, your family will only get HIV from:

* Condomless intercourse & a minute (theoretical) HIV to the person giving the blowjob.
* Sharing drugs rigs (Syringes)
* Blood products/ transfusions (Rare nowadays in most nations thanks to screening)

That's it.


Babacanfatih:
Jim, I am grateful to you for writing in such detail for me. I lived for 4.5 months without treatment and now I've been on treatment for 1 month. I'm using Biktarvy. Is 4.5 months considered late? My second question is: should I firmly believe that it won't be transmitted to my family? Even in a scenario where semen on the toilet seat came into contact with my father's penis, would this still be the case? Thank you, Jim.


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