It's been 8 weeks since my possible HIV exposure and I have been living in a fear for at least 5 weeks my life is suffering and hopeless so I really really need your help! I had a trip to Shanghai China last month and in there I had an unprotected oral sex with a street worker she gave me a blow job and I had ejaculation in her mouth (I think the total time my penis in her mouth was less than 2 minutes) but I think she split it (my semen) out right after I did that. Her HIV status was unknown. Then the next day I had a protected vaginal sex with a street worker (she requested to use condom otherwise she wouldn't do it but her HIV status was unknown also) and I had ejaculation inside her (inside condom actually) but couldn't recall if the condom was broken but I remembered she removed the condom after I pulled out from her and she wiped out the semen on my penis by tissue I asked her if my semen leaked insider her vaginal (I tried to make sure if the condom was not broken) and she said no. The total time was about 5 minutes. That's all the sexual deals I had but after those sexual deals I began to have some symptoms such as: Sore Throat (gone in 2 weeks) Body ache (most on my arms shoulders and back) Swollen lymph gland (I am not really sure about this but whenever I touch my neck I can feel there is a small bump on the neck and a little bit hurt when touch also include swallowing but gone in 4 days) Diarrhea (on week 7 after those sexual deals but only last for 3 days) Skin rash (on week 7 after those sexual deals small red dots are flat appear on my chest shoulders and back not itchy and not a lot actually). But I never have fever and headache at all. Now my questions are: what is the risk or chance that I could be infected by HIV and do I need to do a HIV test? I am very scared now and my life is totally ruined so your help is really matter to me! Please help me! Much appreciate!
2015-04-03 02:59:06
Welcome to the Forum. The exposures you describe did not put you at risk for HIV. No one has ever been shown to acquire HIV from receipt of oral sex and condom protected sex is safe sex. Thus even if your partner had HIV there was no risk for infection from the activities that you describe. The symptoms you describe are some of those which are seen in persons who have recently acquired HIV however these are common symptoms with many causes. When persons have typical symptoms such as yours less than 1% turn out to have HIV. Given the nature of your exposure I would not worry. To address your concerns I would suggest that you have an HIV test using a 4th generation test for HIV. I suggest this not because I think you have HIV but because I think the assurance of a negative test at this time will help your anxiety. If you had acquired HIV at the time you mention your test would be positive at this time I hope these comments are helpful to you.
2015-04-03 02:59:32
