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testing for HIV Aids: urgent pls help!
#111912 - 09/25/04 01:59 AM
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by the way i used a condom but forgot to remove it after the act. then what happened is that it slipped out as i was asleep n rolled on the bed. the fluid must have gotten intach with my penis cuz otherwise i wdnt hav contracted ghonorrea. do you think HIV Aids virus can be that 'sly' as the ghonorrea virus have prooved to be? but for sure i din get back i.e din have sex without a condom.
i must have gotten the bactereia from the fluids on the bed most proberbly.
now to experts: that was bacteria n it actually got into me, do you think HIV virus can do that as well?
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the email address above is my close friend's, i was so teriffied to use mine n he agreed to help me. pls assist me in which ever way you can.
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If you used a condom, you are most likely fine. Other STD's are more likely to occur. It sounds like you are anxious, so just get tested to relieve your mind. Three months post exposure is a good result, so make sure you wait it out, take a test and move on. Good luck to you.
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Amfar Handbook
Chapter 3 , Page 35
Throughout the world, people can contract HIV infection in three possible ways:
1) Through sexual contact, either homosexual or heterosexual. Heterosexual contact is the leading means of HIV transmission worldwide, and the fastest growing mode of HIV transmission in the nation.
2) Through the contact with blood or other bodily fluids, blood products, or tissues of an infected person. this usually occurs by inculation of HIV through needle sharing among users of illicit drugs; much more rarely, by accidental needle stick or splashes of blood on mucous membranes; and extremely rarely, through sustained contact of infected blood with breaks in the skin.
3) Through transfer of the virus from an infected mother to her infect before or during birth, or shortly after birth through breast-feeding. This mother-to-infect transfer is also known as perinatal transmission. Perinatal transmission is in rapid decline in the US.
Transfer of a virus from mother to infant is known as vertical transmission, which refers to transfer of the virus from one generation to the next. This term, along with horizontal transmission is used often in the scientific literature. horizontal transmission refers to transfer of the virus from one person to another in the population. Sexual transmission and blood-to-blood transmission are both examples of horizontal transmission.
Free HIV particles have been isolated from blood, semen, vaginal fluid, and breast milk. Other body fluids in which HIV is found include cerebrospinal fluid, which bathces the brain and spinal cord; synoviral fluid, which batches the surfaces of joints; pleural fluid, which occupies the narrow space between the lungs and the chest wall; and amniotic fluid, which surrounds the fetus. Researchers have also isolated HIV from saliva, tears, feces, and urine, in which it is sometimes present in very small amounts. No cases of HIV transmission through these fluids have been fully documented.
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pls advice me on wat to do between now and December 20. the incident occured on Sep 3, i din remove the conndon n its like it came out n dropped on the bed while i was asleep, i had ghonorrea which has been treated but n so stressed up. m havin a hectic stressfull time, keep on wondering what if...HIV. Icant even concentrate on my job, neither can i sleep at night. please please tell me something to help me calm down...! or any specialised knowedge on STDs spread, m so shocked.
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I know the waiting must be horror for you. But TRY not to stress yourself out too much. I try to remember, when waiting for my new blood results (I am HIV/AIDS), that CAN take two weeks....that worrying about something so far away... that may be GREAT is a pretty negative and destructive way to waste two weeks of my life. Every minute of your life should be treasured. On the other side of the coin I know it is easy to say and hard to do. If the difficulty is unbearable, try talking to someone you trust or seeing a counselor to help you thru the rough moments.
Good Luck! We are here for you.
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"No act of kindness,
no matter how small,
is ever wasted." AESOP
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