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HIV Prevention and Testing => Do I Have HIV? => Topic started by: silencedogood on July 13, 2007, 08:39:37 pm
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hi there, thanks to everyone who is taking the time to read this.
About a month ago, while I was backpacking in europe, a had a rendezvouz with a girl from London. Normally I would not even think twice about it, but I didnt know this girl at all. Anyway, we had protected sex, but during the foreplay, I had fingered her breifly, and in the heat of the moment, I forgot that I had a small cut on my middle finger. The cut wasn't deep, and it was only about an eight of an inch in length, and it was about four and a half days healed. Am I at risk? I asked my family doctor, and he told me not to worry about it, but I insisted on getting the test anyway. One last question, I got the test yesterday, and the exposure was a little more than a month ago. did i give it enough time?
Thank you
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You didn't have a risk and you didn't need to test.
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Silence, you don't have to worry about the test result. There wasn't any need to get tested. Transmission just doesn't happen through the kind of fingering incident you're concerned about. Nicks, cuts, scratches, etc. don't work for HIV which is a fragile virus which requires a very hospitable setting for transmission and what you have described just doesn't do it. Really. There's never been a confirmed case of transmission in this very common situation and you aren't going to become the first.
Testing is unnecessary.
Cheers,