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Author Topic: Is seroconversion possible 5 days after a possible exposure  (Read 3025 times)

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Offline Hazel_Angel

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Is seroconversion possible 5 days after a possible exposure
« on: April 28, 2017, 03:53:41 pm »
I don't know much about HIV.  Around about two years ago I reading a piece online about HIV and I came across the word - seroconversion.  I didn't know what that was, so I googled it. I learned it's a flu like sickness that sometimes occurs after becoming infected with HIV and that one to three weeks is a typical timeframe after exposure. 

This had me casting my mind back to summer of 2011. I met a new person.  We had one night together of fun and then he started to dick me around.  Telling me things and not follow IMG through on his promises etc.  I don't know his HIV status but I did learn that he wasn't a nice person to say the least.  He was and probably still is a misogynist.  He claimed to love women but at the end of the day, he loved dicking on them the most.  He did not have anyone speak ill of prostitute s and demanded for them to be called sex workers.  So there's something at the back of my mind on that note. 

Anyways, I remember things clearly.

The night we spent together - there was no sexual intercourse or vaginal or anal.  There was some bdsm play like bondage and spankings.  There was a brief blow job where he didn't cum in my mouth.  There was other play - I gave him a hand job and fingered his bum.  He came from that and I did taste his cum.  So that was all the play with did. 

5 days after our encounter was a Friday and I was out for lunch and then I became ill.  I was vomiting and had diarrhoea and a high temperature.  I put it down to food posioning.  Not once did I ever think HIV until I read that piece about HIV and seroconversion. 
So that was two years ago when that I thought entered my head. 

I've been meaning to get tested but I pushed it to the back of my mind.  Last year was very busy for me too.  I was supposed to have a week off work at Easter.   Sometimes my work load is insane so it was easy for me to push hiv testing to the back of my mind.  I finally built the courage to that I was going to get tested during my week off but then work rand me and dragged me into work and I never got around to doing it.  It always happens where work or something interfere with the rare time off that I get. 

I ordered a home hiv test kit earlier this week and that's yet to come in the mail.  I'm hoping to test with that when it arrives. 

I'm sick with worry. 

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Re: Is seroconversion possible 5 days after a possible exposure
« Reply #1 on: April 28, 2017, 04:10:31 pm »
Most likely your issues were related to food poisoning, which often occurs shortly after you eat the problem food, then clears up with in 24 hours or so.

HIV-seroconversion symptoms do not generally happen so quickly, if they happen at all.

Additional, your brief oral sex activity, in the manner in which you describe it, is not a risk for HIV infection. 

A "hand job" and "fingering" do not present risks for HIV infection, nor do the "bondage" activities you describe.

You really needn't test over the incident as you described it, but, if you go ahead and test for peace of mind, I fully expect that your test will indicate "negative" for HIV antibodies.
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Offline Hazel_Angel

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Re: Is seroconversion possible 5 days after a possible exposure
« Reply #2 on: April 29, 2017, 05:23:12 am »
Thank you so much for your lovely reply and putting my mind at ease.  It helps a lot. 

The sickness back then, I was putting down to food posioning.  It didn't clear up after 24 hours.  I was sick for 2-3 days. I was exhausted and with a sore head and my body was sore when I returned to work on the following Wednesday.  So I still wasn't feeling well at all. 

I understand that some of the activities we got up to pose no risk of hiv.  The blowjob was very very brief.  He had me on my knees and he inserted his penis into my mouth and it was very brief and then he withdrew. 

Later on there was more play and he came.  I did taste his cum.  I would have been worried that maybe this would be a risk in relation to hiv. 

I'm still going to test for peace of mind.  I have a home hiv test due to arrive in the mail at some stage next week so I will use that.  At some stage then, I do hope to follow it up with a full sti test when my job gives me a break and allows me some time off. 

I will reply back here next week, after my home test.

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Re: Is seroconversion possible 5 days after a possible exposure
« Reply #3 on: April 29, 2017, 06:14:49 am »
You're welcome.  I'm sure things will work out fine for you.
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Offline Hazel_Angel

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Re: Is seroconversion possible 5 days after a possible exposure
« Reply #4 on: May 02, 2017, 02:54:33 pm »
My home test came today in the mail.  Just after opening my package about 25 minutes ago.  It was all very straight forward and very easy to use.  The test was successful and it worked for me.  The results are in and it shows a negative result.  I'm delighted.  I began to worry some time back and pushed it to the back of my mind but from time to time it came up and played on my mind.  The home testing kit was very suitable for me for testing.  It came in the mail and it allowed me to test in my own time.  Sometimes my schedule can be hectic and it can be hard to look after myself and make an appointment, etc so the home kit was ideal. 

 


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