A bit of advice

Doctors I was hoping you could help me with a few questions I have. First I’d like to say that I have used this forum once before under a different name (I was having trouble recovering my information so I just made a new profile) and it was very helpful. Anyway the back story is last year I had a scare which you guys assured me was nothing to worry about and you were correct. Thank you for that. Anyway I began dating my girlfriend about a month ago and she is a big proponent of “waiting until she knows she is in love” before we have sex and I agree with her. Anyway due to my military duties we haven’t seen each other for about two weeks and engaged in unprotected sex on Saturday. We lasted all of about a minute and a half until we both agreed that we shouldn’t be doing this until the “love” situation is agreed upon. I also remembered my previous scare and was a little nervous. We had the talk that due to her being on birth control if we engaged in unprotected sex we should both be screened. She was slightly offended as she had a screening done about a week after her last experience last December but said that if it made me feel better she would when she sees her gynecologist in a few weeks. I scheduled my screening here on post for next week although I had an HIV screening with my special forces physical about 3 weeks ago. I understand this is mostly just old paranoia but my questions are as follows. 1. About how much of a risk would you say we put ourselves in on Saturday for HIV? She is the only sexual partner I’ve had since my scare last year and I am her first since she December a week prior to her last screening. 2. How prevalent is HIV among heterosexual Caucasian females in the US? 3. Should I consider PEP or would that be kind of overdoing it? I understand this is kind of weird and I am fortunate to have a very understanding partner thank you for your advice.

2015-04-07 11:00:12

Emma