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Q: Hiv From Getting Blood In Your Mouth?
asked by: someonesaveme on June 5th, 2007
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Hi, this is what recently happened to me.. I had sucked blood out of my friend's finger she is a bisexual female and spat it out on a sink.. Now I am very afraid as to whether I could have contacted HIV... I am really fearing for my life now....
I went for Antigen/Antibody test 3 days after the incident which returned negative results..I realised that there is a 3month window period before HIV can be detected...which stresses me even more because I am currently studying for a degree...

I really want to know a few things... what are the chances that she has contracted HIV without her knowing ? Also, the related symtoms of HIV infection through NON-sexual contact any different from infection through Sexual Contact ? I have shown no symtoms so far...in my second week since it happened... I'm really confused and scared.... very very scared to death now.... Although she has told me that she does'nt have HIV after i asked her twice.. I am still worried... She also claims to have only one girlfriend, and no boyfriends so far...

Lots of people have been telling me that the possibility is very low... but I'm really still very very scared....

Please advise and help as I cannot concentrate on my studies at all while worrying about this.......

Many Thanks...
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Llewellyn
replied on June 6th, 2007
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It would be difficult for us to give you exact figures as to how possible it is. The possibly is not great, but it is there. Many people have HIV without realizing it. It is estimated that roughly 25% of people with HIV do not know that they have it. The only way to know is to take a test when the time comes.

Symptoms don't mean anything. Most people have no symptoms at all when they test positive. Some people have no symptoms at all for ten years. HIV is HIV, regardless of how you contract it. So the symptoms are the same regardless of how you contract it.

If she is willing, you could go with her and have her get tested. You would not show up as positive this soon even if you were infected, but she would, assuming she has been with her current partner for at least three months or more, has no other partners that she has been with for less than three months, and does not share needles. If she is negative, then you would know you probably are too. You could still test at the three month point to make sure if you want to, but at least you would not have to worry much in the meantime.
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