Welcome, Guest. Please login or register.
March 30, 2024, 01:31:04 am

Login with username, password and session length


Members
  • Total Members: 37614
  • Latest: bondann
Stats
  • Total Posts: 772965
  • Total Topics: 66312
  • Online Today: 178
  • Online Ever: 5484
  • (June 18, 2021, 11:15:29 pm)
Users Online
Users: 0
Guests: 133
Total: 133

Welcome


Welcome to the POZ Community Forums, a round-the-clock discussion area for people with HIV/AIDS, their friends/family/caregivers, and others concerned about HIV/AIDS.  Click on the links below to browse our various forums; scroll down for a glance at the most recent posts; or join in the conversation yourself by registering on the left side of this page.

Privacy Warning:  Please realize that these forums are open to all, and are fully searchable via Google and other search engines. If you are HIV positive and disclose this in our forums, then it is almost the same thing as telling the whole world (or at least the World Wide Web). If this concerns you, then do not use a username or avatar that are self-identifying in any way. We do not allow the deletion of anything you post in these forums, so think before you post.

  • The information shared in these forums, by moderators and members, is designed to complement, not replace, the relationship between an individual and his/her own physician.

  • All members of these forums are, by default, not considered to be licensed medical providers. If otherwise, users must clearly define themselves as such.

  • Forums members must behave at all times with respect and honesty. Posting guidelines, including time-out and banning policies, have been established by the moderators of these forums. Click here for “Do I Have HIV?” posting guidelines. Click here for posting guidelines pertaining to all other POZ community forums.

  • We ask all forums members to provide references for health/medical/scientific information they provide, when it is not a personal experience being discussed. Please provide hyperlinks with full URLs or full citations of published works not available via the Internet. Additionally, all forums members must post information which are true and correct to their knowledge.

  • Product advertisement—including links; banners; editorial content; and clinical trial, study or survey participation—is strictly prohibited by forums members unless permission has been secured from POZ.

To change forums navigation language settings, click here (members only), Register now

Para cambiar sus preferencias de los foros en español, haz clic aquí (sólo miembros), Regístrate ahora

Finished Reading This? You can collapse this or any other box on this page by clicking the symbol in each box.

Welcome to Do I Have HIV?

Welcome to the "Do I Have HIV?" POZ forum.

This special section of the POZ forum is for individuals who have concerns about whether or not they are HIV positive. Individuals are permitted to post up to three questions or responses in this forum.

Ongoing participation in the "Do I Have HIV?" forum (posting more than three questions or responses) requires a paid subscription, with secure payments made via PayPal.

A seven-day subscription is $9.99, a 30-day subscription is $14.99 and a 90-day subscription is $24.99.

Anyone who needs to post more than three messages in the "Do I Have HIV?" forum -- including past, present and future POZ Forums members -- will need to subscribe, with secure payments made via PayPal.

There is no charge to read threads in the "Do I Have HIV?" forum, nor will there be a charge for participating in any of the other POZ forums. In addition, the POZ Basics "HIV Transmission and Risks" and "HIV Testing" basics, will remain accessible to all.

NOTE: HIV testing questions will still need to be posted in the "Do I Have HIV?" forum; attempts to post HIV symptoms or testing questions in any other forums will be considered violations of our rules of membership and subject to time-outs and permanent bans.

To learn how to upgrade your Forums account to participate beyond three posts in the "Do I Have HIV?" Forum, please click here.

Thank you for your understanding and future support of the best online support service for people living with, affected by and at risk for HIV.

Author Topic: Starting to worry  (Read 2840 times)

0 Members and 1 Guest are viewing this topic.

Offline Hoods_48

  • Standard
  • Member
  • Posts: 3
Starting to worry
« on: July 22, 2013, 09:57:36 am »
Hello
I am 32 year old man living in Australia. I had 4 lap dances over 2 days from the same dancer abt 5 min each. I was fully clothed . I understand that the vaginal fluids are quite harmless but if she was bleeding and was having her period, could the blood on her fingers infect me if she touched my face with those fingers. I have a bad habit of scratching the scabs of the pimples on my face. I remember her touching herself. On your homepage it says that HIV can be transmitted through cuts and sores. What mechanism can prevent infection in this case. I am starting to worry since I developed muscle aches and tingling sensations in my fingers and toes in the 8th week. Do I need to test over this. Thank you all for your patience. Regards.

Offline Andy Velez

  • Global Moderator
  • Member
  • Posts: 34,126
Re: Starting to worry
« Reply #1 on: July 22, 2013, 10:34:40 am »
You are worrying without any basis in HIV science about these incidents. Nothing you have reported no matter what the details you throw into the mix would put you at risk for HIV transmission.

Sexually the only confirmed means of HIV transmission are through unprotected vaginal and anal intercourse. That's it.

There is no need for testing nor for further concern on your part.   
Andy Velez

Offline Hoods_48

  • Standard
  • Member
  • Posts: 3
Re: Starting to worry
« Reply #2 on: July 24, 2013, 01:49:28 am »
Thank you for your reply. But I do not understand how the blood on her fingers touching my scratched pimples within seconds not pose a possibility of transmission.
What could be the possible barriers?

Offline Ann

  • Administrator
  • Member
  • Posts: 28,134
  • It just is, OK?
    • Num is sum qui mentiar tibi?
Re: Starting to worry
« Reply #3 on: July 24, 2013, 04:33:44 am »
Hoods,

Hiv is a fragile, difficult to transmit virus that is primarily transmitted INSIDE the human body, as in unprotected anal or vaginal intercourse where the virus never leaves the confines of the two bodies.

Once outside the body, small changes in temperature, and pH and moisture all quickly damage the virus and render it unable to infect. For this reason, you were NOT at risk for hiv infection when she touched your pimples, regardless of what may or may not have been on her fingers.


Here's what you need to know in order to avoid hiv infection:

You need to be using condoms for anal or vaginal intercourse, every time, no exceptions until such time as you are in a securely monogamous relationship where you have both tested for ALL sexually transmitted infections together.

To agree to have unprotected intercourse is to consent to the possibility of being infected with an STI. Sex without a condom lasts only a matter of minutes, but hiv is forever.

Have a look through the condom and lube links in my signature line so you can use condoms with confidence.

ALTHOUGH YOU DO NOT NEED TO TEST FOR HIV OVER THIS SPECIFIC INCIDENT, anyone who is sexually active should be having a full sexual health care check-up, 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 check-ups, 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!

Ann
Condoms are a girl's best friend

Condom and Lube Info  

"...health will finally be seen not as a blessing to be wished for, but as a human right to be fought for." Kofi Annan

Nymphomaniac: a woman as obsessed with sex as an average man. Mignon McLaughlin

HIV is certainly character-building. It's made me see all of the shallow things we cling to, like ego and vanity. Of course, I'd rather have a few more T-cells and a little less character. Randy Shilts

Offline Hoods_48

  • Standard
  • Member
  • Posts: 3
Re: Starting to worry
« Reply #4 on: July 27, 2013, 04:23:17 am »
Thanks for your reply Ann. The anxiety got the better of me and I got myself tested for HIV antibody/antigen test which was negative. This was 9 weeks after my visit to the strip club but only 1 week after the " symptoms" I.e nerve pains/tingling and body ache. Would it matter at week 9 if I had a high risk? I mean if the symptoms were due to HIV would detectable antibodies have developed after 1 week of showing symptoms.
I know how this sounds but is it possible to get infected if some spit from her mouth went into my eye and there was a trace of blood in it . If not , why? Would it be because a tiny little spray would not have enough infectious virus. During anal sex does a lot more infectious fluids get exchanged?
Thanks to all of you for providing this service .
Regards.

Offline Ann

  • Administrator
  • Member
  • Posts: 28,134
  • It just is, OK?
    • Num is sum qui mentiar tibi?
Re: Starting to worry
« Reply #5 on: July 27, 2013, 05:38:06 am »
Hoods,

Your nine week negative is NOT going to change because YOU DID NOT HAVE A RISK FOR HIV INFECTION. Even if you did have a risk, you would have tested positive by now. But you DID NOT have a risk.

Forget about this spit in the eye crap. It's speculation. Unless you repeatedly punched her in the mouth, there could not possibly be enough blood present in her mouth to cause concern.

You do NOT need further hiv testing at this time. You didn't have a risk.

If you feel unwell, see a doctor. Whatever is going on has NOTHING to do with hiv.

Ann
Condoms are a girl's best friend

Condom and Lube Info  

"...health will finally be seen not as a blessing to be wished for, but as a human right to be fought for." Kofi Annan

Nymphomaniac: a woman as obsessed with sex as an average man. Mignon McLaughlin

HIV is certainly character-building. It's made me see all of the shallow things we cling to, like ego and vanity. Of course, I'd rather have a few more T-cells and a little less character. Randy Shilts

 


Terms of Membership for these forums
 

© 2024 Smart + Strong. All Rights Reserved.   terms of use and your privacy
Smart + Strong® is a registered trademark of CDM Publishing, LLC.