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HIV Prevention and Testing => Do I Have HIV? => Topic started by: Alex22 on February 20, 2013, 05:52:50 pm
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Hooked up with a female escort in Canada last month. We had protected sex but UNPROTECTED oral sex(giving and receiving). My problem is, i have bleeding gums. It bleeds whenever i brush my teeth. I probably have gum disease i don't know.
One month in and i'm going crazy. I'm thinking of getting tested tomorrow even though i don't have any symptoms. What do you guys think???
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You never had an exposure.
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I gave her oral sex! i'm pretty sure my gum wasn't bleeding while i was doing it but what if it was bleeding? and what about if i have gum disease?
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I gave her oral sex! i'm pretty sure my gum wasn't bleeding while i was doing it but what if it was bleeding? and what about if i have gum disease?
Despite what you might have heard, giving a woman oral sex is NOT a documented risk for HIV. The fluids you come into contact with during oral sex are not infectious. If a woman has HIV, the infectious area is deep within the vagina, in a thick cervical mucous. You do not come into any sort of contact with those fluids during oral sex.
And even if you did, saliva contains over a dozen identified elements which render HIV inert.
This is why we state that you had no risk.
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But what if i have bleeding gums? no one has answered that yet
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Not a risk.