[Question #8396] HIV exposure chances
45 months ago
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Hello,
First time poster here but wanted to ask a question regarding an encounter I had with someone recently. I met this new woman who I slept with around September at the time I thought nothing of it but then started to get a bit nervous once I noticed she was a bit more promiscuous that I initially thought. We had unprotected oral and protected vaginal sex. I only slept with her 2 times so I got really nervous and got std tested. The first test was only 1 week after our second and last encounter but it was at least 28-30 days from the first encounter and everything came back negative so that gave me a baseline that I didnt have anything. However, I did go to the doctor to get something on my penis checked out because I thought I might have had HSV but it turned out it was nothing to worry about he said I should get tested again just to be sure I dont have anything, which I will get tested tomorrow. But since that doctor visit and its been about 4 weeks since that last encounter with this lady I have had a constant knee pain for the past week and a sudden sore throat. I was not sure if the sore throat was due to me talking at work but that was really odd. Since then I have been in a bit of a panic that I might have developed some HIV symptoms. I wanted to ask could these be symptoms or just unrelated things that have happened. There was no problems with the condom breaking but the last encounter I went sort of limp and the condom slipped a little bit but was still on my penis it never fell off at that point I just stopped and just have unprotected oral which is a low risk for HIV.
thanks !
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Edward W. Hook M.D.
45 months ago
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Welcome to our forum. Thanks for your questions. I’ll be glad to comment. The encounter you described was very, very low risk for acquisition of HIV. HIV is very, very rare in women occurring in fewer than one in 1000 women, even those who have multiple sexual partners. Further the exposures you describe were low risk. Condom protected sex is safe sex and there are no proven cases in which someone has acquired HIV from receiving oral sex. Even if your genital exposure to this woman was totally unprotected and if she happen to have untreated HIV (both are unlikely) your risk from a single sexual encounter would be less than one infection for every 1000 acts of intercourse.
If you test tomorrow, I anticipate your test will be negative. Testing for HIV at four weeks (28 days) following exposure would detect between 98 and 99% of all recent infections. My sincere advice to you is to do your best not to worry. EWH
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