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Author Topic: Worried of getting HIV  (Read 2029 times)

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Offline worriedinbk

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Worried of getting HIV
« on: October 08, 2013, 12:37:37 pm »
Hi, I am a gay male
I met someone online about a month ago.
We had sex few times. He had disclosed that he had unsafe sex before.
We did together Orasure rapid fingerprick test and it was negative.
Two days go we had anal sex and he was bleeding a lot and there was blood on a condom.
We did it for few minutes, so when I saw it I took it off right away and went to wash myself.
Also I took the tissue and turned the condom inside out and checked with the tissue and there was some blood inside the condom.  Now I am freaking out that the test was false negative and the condom broke. He won't go do regular Elisa test, always finds excuses. I hope the blood didn't get inside of me. He said it his blood can go down there, maybe just to scare me off.
By the way I was a top.
Please help me I cant sleep.
Thank you.

Offline Jeff G

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Re: Worried of getting HIV
« Reply #1 on: October 08, 2013, 01:08:31 pm »
You probably got blood inside the condom messing around with it . There is no need to check a condom other than to look at it ... condoms ore designed so that when they fail they do so catastrophically leaving no doubt .

The only way to know your HIV status is to test at the appropriate time and not by asking others to test . It doesn't sound like you had a risk but if you are in doubt you can test 6 weeks past any possible exposure and again at 3 months to confirm the results .
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