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can u get AIDS if u swallow blood ? high risk behavior for HIV ?
Posted: 09-02-07 01:32am

I dated a girl that used to be a drug addict but she was just out of rehab
and decided to start a new life so she attended my college.

she seen like a nice girl we talked have good conversations
we dated for 3 weeks and we had sex 3 times in 1 single occasion.

At the time of having sexual intercourse we kissed kind of deep
and the 3 times we had sex that night I used a condom and also K-Y jelly to
prevent the condom from breaking or slipping off
Im pretty sure the condom worked fine those 3 times my only concern is
maybe that when I took the condom out my penis might have come in contact
with some of the vaginal fluids but I also doubt that... after taking the condom out I washed my penis with warm water.

The only thing that scare me from all this is that
she told me that her friend just died from the virus and that
her dad has it... am I being too paranoid because of the fact that she
knows people that are HIV positive... or was I at high risk?

can u get aids if u swallow blood


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Posted: 12-03-07 03:18am

If this woman ONLY KNOWS people that are HIV-positive, then there is nothing to be worried about. But if she had intimate contacts with those people then you should be very careful when having sex with her. Being a former drug abuser is another risk. Using condoms when having sex with such persons is absolutely necessary. As you described, you used condom that time so the risk for becoming infected with HIV is very small. Nonetheless, you can perform HIV-testing and you can also recommend that your girlfriend to do the same.

If you swallow blood infected with HIV you can get infected only if you have some erosions in the mouth, throat or esophagus.




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