What Is The Risk Of Getting HIV From Touching Poop

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"Risk from getting open wound and fingerprick touched"

Hi there. I just tested negative ytd 3 months post an unprotected sexual exposure. What I did was the rapid antibody hiv fingerprick test. However because I was very happy ytd i went to a thai girls disco (kind of a self celebration). one of the bar...

Response from Erik Glenn, M.A.

Chicago Black Gay Mens Caucus

Thanks for your question,There is no risk for the situation you describe. Both your "open wound" and fingerprick were dried up and closed by the time they were touched. That's why I'm using quotation marks. Also, it's not... Read more »

its scaring the poop out of me literary

HEy Doc great work I love the way you handle the questions and it seems your answers are the real deal. Well this is my situation around 100 days ago I was the insertive partner of oral sex from a csw in the Dominican republic when I got back to the...

Response from Robert J. Frascino, M.D.

The Robert James Frascino AIDS Foundation

Hi Cuban friend in Miami,Your physician was wrong to empirically treat you with doxy, cipro and "two different shots for 'gohhnariah' and syphilis"!A negative rapid HIV test day 97 is considered definitive and conclusive. HIV is... Read more »

Please Help -- "Touched By A Tranny"...What Is The Risk?????

Hi Dr. Bob,I love all of the information and comfort you provideon your site. You provide the facts, deliver them in ahumorous way, and don't add any moral judgments. Thank you.I'm writing to you again (I've written before...

Response from Robert J. Frascino, M.D.

The Robert James Frascino AIDS Foundation

Dear Big Apple Worrier,Yes, indeed, your questions are similar to many I've already answered that pertain to oral sex. My response to you is exactly the same. Nothing has changed. The risk of HIV transmission via oral sex is extremely low.... Read more »

Constantly feeling/touching "Lymph nodes-please answer worried cancer or HIV "

Hi, I had a relatively low risk exposure 3 weeks ago and have been nervous since! Since then I have been constantly playing with my lymph nodes and lo and behold I can now clearly feel one on my left side of the neck. This morning I also woke up...

Response from Erik Glenn, M.A.

Chicago Black Gay Mens Caucus

Thanks for the question,It sounds like your "low risk exposure" was actually <b>no risk</b> since you had no penetration. Since this is a safe sex / prevention forum, I'm going to move forward with the assumption that your... Read more »

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Doctor scaring the poop out of me

Posted by Anonymous, 1 Reply

Had high risk exposure and went to the doctor crying...
He told me not to worry and gave me a PCR Viral load test to make sure (21 days post exposure)
The result was supposed to be in today. I called this morning and he was very short with me and told... Read more »

touched blood in water

Posted by 613, 2 Replies

I think this is my OCD getting the better of me but here goes.

Last night at a Halloween punk/metal show I and a friend of mine had fake blood on our hands.

We washed them together in a bucket of water. He then said he cut his hand and was washing the... Read more »

Yellow Poop

Posted by Anonymous, 2 Replies

Hi All,
Is it common for your poop to change from the normal color of brown, to a light yellowish color???

perhaps during or right after sero?
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Getting HIV result tomorrow

Posted by Anonymous, 6 Replies

I am very scared. I have been told that the risk was very low and so low that one of the ASO counsellers would bet everything she has that I would be ok. With the sympthoms I have, I am quite certain that I've already been infected. My life has been... Read more »

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