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HIV Prevention and Testing => Do I Have HIV? => Topic started by: Wg rt on April 20, 2013, 07:33:33 pm
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Hi I had oral sex where I was the receiving partner getting oral sex during the act some blood starting coming out of the girls gums / cut in her mouth am I at risk of getting HIV if the blood would have come in contact with my penis / penis cut / penis opening .
Really very worried
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Hi WG . You didn't have a risk , 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.
Saliva contains proteins and enzymes that damage HIV and render it unable to infect .
ALTHOUGH YOU DO NOT NEED 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!
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Hi jeff thanks for the reply ...so you mean to say no risk even if some blood from her mouth got in touch with my penis .
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That is correct , you did not have a risk.
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She was drinking liquor and then she put on some lotion in her mouth does this reduce the amount of saliva in her mouth .
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I do not think it would make a difference ... It wasn't a risk .