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HIV Prevention and Testing => Do I Have HIV? => Topic started by: Worried45 on April 02, 2013, 11:02:19 pm

Title: Oral sex help
Post by: Worried45 on April 02, 2013, 11:02:19 pm
Hi guys. I about 12 days ago I gave a stranger unprotected oral sex and he did not cum in my mouth. I know that is low risk. I was ok until I realized my mouth feels like and looks I have a film over it like oral thrush. I don't have any white clusters and I am in no pain really just feels different and scratchy. Please let me know if this may be any other std or anything. I am experiencing no other symptoms. Could this be a sign of early hiv?
Title: Re: Oral sex help
Post by: Jeff G on April 02, 2013, 11:11:51 pm
Hi Worried45 . You did not have a risk for HIV in the situation you described .

ALTHOUGH YOU DO NOT NEED FURTHER HIV TESTING AT THIS TIME, anyone who is sexually active should be having a full sexual health care checkup, 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 checkups, 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!
Title: Re: Oral sex help
Post by: Worried45 on April 02, 2013, 11:18:04 pm
Thank you for responding Jeff. I am going to get tested for everything. I was just freaking out because after it was over, he told me he had unprotected sex with a random person 4 days before. I read somewhere that right after you get infected is when its easiest to infect others.
Title: Re: Oral sex help
Post by: Jeff G on April 02, 2013, 11:20:42 pm
You can put your mind at ease now and move on .

There have been no fewer than three separate serodiscordant couples studies (where one person is HIV positive, the other negative.) These couples were tracked for three. five and ten years. The couples used condoms for penetrative vaginal and anal sex, but NO BARRIER at all for oral sex. Any kind of oral sex.

These studies yielded NO infections.