[Question #10140] HIV RISK
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25 months ago
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Hello doctor, I visited a erotic shop with cinema in Budapest on 29 June. There i purchased a sex toy and as a first timer went into rhe cinema. There people were having sex in cabins. I did not engage in sexual activity there. I have used the sex toy twice and to the best of my knowledge it was new when i purchased it. On the 1st of July i started to feel sick, first with a sore throat and fever. Now a week after this, i have an eye infection,sore throat,mucus build up although no blocked nose of difficulty breathing. I have become overly paranoid that i somehow may have contracted HIV and am going through ARS.
My last HIV test was in FEB-23, 40 days after i had mutual condom protected oral with a transgender masseuse. I have not had any sexual activity since that till date.
What are my risks of HIV?
Could the feb-23 test have been a false negative even at day40?
Am i being overly anxious and paranoid about this?
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H. Hunter Handsfield, MD
25 months ago
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Welcome back to the forum. Thank you for your continued confidence in our services.
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The answer to your closing question is yes: you are being overly anxious about events that carry no risk of HIV.
From this question and your previous one, you apparently have some misunderstandings about HIV transmission. It's harder to catch HIV than you might think! Even with unprotected anal or vaginal sex to completion, if one partner has untreated HIV, the other has around one chance in a thousand of being infected. It's higher or lower for specific sexual practices (for example, insertive/top versus receptive/bottom), always pretty low. Oral sex is no risk at all for the insertive (penile) partner: that is, you can receive as many BJs as you like and will not get HIV. A sex toy shared with another person might be somewhat risky, but your own toy -- used only by you -- cannot give you HIV. And being in a sex club or erotic shop of course is zero risk, assuming you don't have unprotected sex with someone in the shop.
As for your symptoms, ARS can cause some of them, but so can a hundred other viruses and minor conditions, all of which are more common than ARS. You probably just have a cold, or maybe covid. But it impossible you caught HIV in the erotic shop and did not need testing. And your last sexual contact -- mutual condom protected oral sex also was zero risk for HIV.
Finally, your Feb 23 negative test was accurate. You didn't need testing at that time, but the result shows you were not infected.
I hope these comments are helpful. Let me know if anything isn't clear.
HHH, MD
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