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Symptoms from unprotected sex
#215049 - 11/20/06 11:45 AM
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Hi,
Any advice is much appreciated. Let me give you the history:
9 weeks ago I had my first man / man experience and am scared I may have contracted HIV. The guy I was with and I discussed at length his HIV status and he told me he was negative. I told him I was as well. The only test I ever had was for life insurance 5 months ago and that was negative. I had no other sexual encounters between my test and the night 8 weeks ago.
We engaged in oral sex, no ejaculation, and unprotected anal sex (insertive on my part), no ejaculation, then mutual jo. The day following the we spoke again about his HIV status and he assured me he was clean. Three days following that night I became very nauseous and unable to eat. I didn't have a full blown fever but did experience hot flashes and cold sweats on occasion and a sore throat, not too many body aches and no diarrhea. They symptoms lasted for 4 days or so and have gone away.
Two weeks after the encounter I had an HIV test and it was negative, the nurse suggested I get tested again in 3 months which is mid December. I'm wondering if a test now, 9 weeks after would give me some sort of relief from the anxiety I'm experiencing.
I have no real reason to believe the guy is not being honest with me about his status but I can't help but think I caught something.
Please let me know my risk and again, anything you can tell me would be very helpful and I appreciate it very much.
Thanks.
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A really good thing to keep in mind when engaging in unprotected sex: 1 out of every 3 people infected have no idea they are infected. A person could very well tell you that they are not infected and actually believe that themselves. Until two people have gone and tested together, discussion about status are nice, but not definitive.
A negative at this point would be extremely unlikely to change since most people that are infected test postive by 6 weeks.
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taurusthecat
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Why are you having unprotected anal sex with a stranger ejaculation or no ejaculation? The best approach is to treat every single person as if they were positive no matter WHAT they tell you. They can lie or be mistaken, so at least you know that YOU remain hiv negative and will be 100% insured.
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Yeah ... I know the choices I made were bad ones but thanks for pointing that out to me.
I guess I should have posted somewhere else, I was looking for more opinons on exposure risks and percentages based on my actions.
Thanks.
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taurusthecat
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No, you posted in exactly the right section, don't worry.
I guess the last thing you feel like right now is having someone wagging a finger at you saying "bad choices".
It's a case that the risks of contracting hiv are so varied according to what has happened and how, that finding out the risk of a certain action or asking the probability of something are all pretty hit and miss. The only certainty is that if you treat every single potential sex partner as positive you will stay neg.
My gut feeling tells me that you have not contracted hiv, it sounds low risk-ish, but depending on how long you shagged I guess. Also if he was pos how high his viral load was at the time, I know he said he was neg, but he may not have known or have been lying. The fact that he was willing to talk openly with you, a stranger, about his status is promising. But too many factors not known 100% to be able to determine what your chances of being infected are. The only way to tell for absolutely sure is to wait three months and have a test. You can try to get a test result earlier and it will likely be accurate, but if you are the sort of person who in your mind little doubts plague you and you need absolute closure on something, then wait the three months and get tested then.
Other people here may be able to offer you the probability stuff you're looking for.
Taurus
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Thanks Taurus ...... I appreciate your comments.
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Hi and again thanks for all your advice.
I've got another question. If somebody has the time to answer that would be great. I was feeling so anxious over the Thanksgiving holiday and since then that I decided to get another oral quick antibody test. It's been 10 1/2 weeks since possible exposure and the test a few days ago was negative. I know I'm not out of the woods and still have some time to stew over the mistake I made.
Only one thing confused me, the nurse that administered the test today mentioned to me that 95% of people will test positive by 3 months but there are still that 5% may take as long as 6 months. Everything I've read here says 3 months or 13 weeks. Any insight on why the differences?
Thanks again.
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