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You are so right and I would like to say I know you get a lot of the same type of questions. I've looked over the board for a while now and you always answer in a courteous and professional way and I am sure I speak for the board when I say we can't thank you enough!
You are right, I swore I saw rashes last night and woke up this morning with nothing. You realize that you may have done something very stupid and you start to look over your entire sexual history and let's be honest, we all haven't used protection when we should have. It makes you even more concerned.
so for now, I'll just try and relax, wait until the 90 day mark and take a test. Fingers crossed it is negative.
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Even IF the person drinking the beer was HIV positive AND the shard happened to contain their saliva, saliva in a positive person does not contain the virus.
I'm curious as to why you believe a shard of glass from a half filled broken beer bottle would contain saliva in the first place? It would be wet from the leftover beer.
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I am currently studying healthcare administration and am researching HIV/AIDS. I am looking for information regarding the inflammatory response to the disease. Any and all information would be greatly appreciated. Thank you.View Thread
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1. The person you are fighting with must, of course, be HIV positive and actively bleeding.
2. You must have an open (i.e., bleeding) cut/wound on your body. Scratches and cuts that are not opening bleeding may not necessarily classify as this.
3. The blood of the HIV positive person must be able to actually ENTER your body for even the risk of HIV transmission to be present (and even then, it's not a 100 percent guarantee that this will occur). Simply getting blood on your skin or on a scratch would not transmit the virus from an HIV positive person into an uninfected person.
Generally the risk of transmission from fighting is the greatest when both parties have significant, open wounds as a result of this fighting (and, of course, at least one of the parties fighting carries the virus).
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The RNA Quantitiative and the ELISA tests are FAR more accurate tests in terms of your status (negative by the way).
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Oral sex (both giving and receiving) carries an EXTREMELY low risk of HIV transmission.
The statistics we use in terms of risk for unprotected oral sex are .5 to 1 per 10,000 exposures with a source KNOWN to carry the virus. Your risk would be less since you cannot confirm your partners status (her bouts of flu are certainly no guarantee she is infected).
If you remain concerned over this extremely small risk, the recommended time for testing is 90 days after the sexual event.
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I can also easily feel them in my armpits.
In addition, if one keeps poking at them to try to find them, they tend to swell and get tender. Point being when you keep checking for them, they certainly let you know they are there.
Just because you can feel them does not mean you have HIV. You don't have HIV because your boyfriend doesn't have it. His testing has clearly shown this. Believe the test results.
Keep working with your therapist to get over your hypochondria about a disease you do not have and cannot get from a partner who does not have this to give you.
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However, the odds are very much in your favor that your test result will be exactly the same as your husbands.
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The estimated risk of unprotected insertive anal intercourse is 6.5 per 10,000 exposures with a source KNOWN to carry the virus.
Your risk would be less since you cannot confirm your partners status.
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This does not occur 6 to 12 months after transmission but rather at least a decade or longer in an untreated individual. It takes this period of time for the immune system to be significantly impacted by the virus.
At that stage in the disease the patient is also exhibiting very significant immune compromised symptoms that typically include impressive weight loss, profound weakness, coughing, diarrhea, oral thrush and recurring bouts of a specific type of pneumonia.
These all tie into the fact that the immune system cannot produce any antibodies to any insult to the body from the damage done by the virus. However, keep in mind that the immune system IS one tough cookie and this stage would NOT be reached 6 to 12 months into the disease process in an individual who was healthy prior to transmission.
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