[Question #603] risk assesment.
106 months ago
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Edward W. Hook M.D.
106 months ago
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Welcome to our Forum. Congratulations on your approach to casual sexual encounters. The exposure that you describe was a no risk event. While transsexual commercial sex workers may represent relatively high risk partners, your use of a condom for all penetrative sex makes your risk for HIV and all other STIs (including syphilis and herpes as well) effectively zero. You can be confident that you condom worked since is was intact when you withdrew from your partner- when condoms fail, they break wide open. STIs are no spread by touching/hand to genital contact. I see no risk for any STI and no need for testing related to the event you describe. I also see no reason for your to abstain from unprotected sex with your regular partner related to the activities that you have described. You should be able to move forward without concern.
I hope these comments and assurances are helpful to you. EWH
106 months ago
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Edward W. Hook M.D.
106 months ago
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105 months ago
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105 months ago
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Edward W. Hook M.D.
105 months ago
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105 months ago
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105 months ago
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Edward W. Hook M.D.
105 months ago
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Reading between the lines, you seem to be asking whether or not you might have been infected from something that you picked up from the massage table and either transferred directly to your penis or perhaps transferred on your hands to your penis as you masturbated. The answer is no, particularly if there are no visible abnormalities present. Intact skin is remarkable resistant to infection even if/when exposed to infectious micro organisms.
As to your second question, the fact that your white blood count is normal is good news but does not help us to decide whether or not you were infected. Many persons with common STIs can still have normal white blood cell counts.
I hope this information is helpful. I do think that from what you have described, it is most unlikely that you have an STI of any sort related tot he exposure and symptoms that you describe.. EWH
105 months ago
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105 months ago
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Edward W. Hook M.D.
105 months ago
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