seriously worried about contracting hiv

jenniephat

I had sex last week with an asian guy who i did not know when i was drunk.
during the sex, he didnt seem to get fully erect and although he came, the condom slipped off!! it was still on his penis when he withdrew but only just at the very tip. im worried semen may have got inside. its like the condom was too loose for him and kept falling inside me during it.

i am freaking out now and very very worried about this. i am only out of a long term relationship and this is a first for me. i was going to go get a full std test to include hiv but i read that the test is not accurate until 6 months after exposure.
how can i survive 6 months of this? im tormented!

please can anybody help me. im so scared and alone and i just hope there is some bloodtest or something that can detect if i caught hiv??

tenchi-fan

You might want to start with a pregnancy test.

Chances are he didn't have HIV and even if he did, chances are you didn't contract it. So stop worrying. Get yourself checked again when the test will be accurate, and cut down on the boozing in the meantime.

LegacyUser

The chances of him having HIV are prob very small, but there are other std's you could have caught, so def go ahead and get tested.

The chance of pregnacy however (if you weren't using another form of contraception) is a very real one if the condom kept falling off inside you. So you might want to test for that too.

muinteoir09

tenchi-fan wrote: »

You might want to start with a pregnancy test.

Chances are he didn't have HIV and even if he did, chances are you didn't contract it. So stop worrying. Get yourself checked again when the test will be accurate, and cut down on the boozing in the meantime.

Some good advice in the first half of this post.

However, unlike techni-fan, I don't feel it appropriate to advise you to "cut down on the boozing". There is nothing wrong with getting drunk from time to time. Plus, it seems like you were responsible by using a condom. Sometimes condom mishaps happen. It didn't happen because you were drunk.

CarefulStrides wrote: »

Sleeping with strangers is only going to hurt you in the long term and I think it's apparent to you now that doing so has accomplished nothing but negativity, despite it seeming like a great idea at the time.

There is nothing wrong with a one night stand, provided you are using contraception, which you were. People on this forum can be too quick to judge others on their moral standards.

petethebrick

As others have said - the chances of him having HIV are very slim, and the chances you caught it therefore slim also.
Get yourself tested at the GUIDE clinic in St. James hospital after one month. The test they do is more than 95% accurate at one month and totally accurate at three months. It's free. Try not to stress, I'm sure you're fine.

Uriel.

Tiny tiny tiny chance of infection from the incident you describe.

Get yourself tested in 3 months time for full confidence of your status. Tbh though I wouldn't worry about any STI following this incident. Public health clinics are very good, but can be a pain to get seen and with waiting times etc... Private will set you back 150-200euro. If you can't wait the 3 months a test at 6 weeks will be highly accurate, but if you are going private save yourself some money and just wait till the 3month mark.

Best of luck but try not to worry too much.

LegacyUser

http://www.emaxhealth.com/55/1365.html <--- might be of interest to you

Go to your doc ASAP and see if you can be prescribed antiretrovirals.

The risk is small but you might as well do everything you can. You'll need to go today or tomorrow though.

LegacyUser

I would be more worried about getting pregnant.

If you want to be completely sure you didn't catch some disease then you should wait 8+ weeks then get an STI test.

http://www.chartermedical.ie/sexual-health-clinic

is good.

Uriel.

ask_the_doctor wrote: »

http://www.emaxhealth.com/55/1365.html <--- might be of interest to you

Go to your doc ASAP and see if you can be prescribed antiretrovirals.

The risk is small but you might as well do everything you can. You'll need to go today or tomorrow though.

No doctor with half a brain or any knowledge of HIV would prescribe HAART in such a circumstance. I also don't believe a GP would prescribe it without referral to a HIV specialist. The potential side effects of this kind of therapy would hugely outweigh the the minuscule risk of infection in this case. HAART is only prescribed in serious situations where the possibly of HIV infection is high, considering the risk factors.

Uriel.

dont_worry1 wrote: »

I would be more worried about getting pregnant.

If you want to be completely sure you didn't catch some disease then you should wait 8+ weeks then get an STI test.

http://www.chartermedical.ie/sexual-health-clinic

is good.

12 weeks is the official window period in Ireland/Europe.

mood

You probably need a full STD test.

Hopefully you caught nothing but it's a good idea to get tested.

Other posters have given good advice, but the best you can do is just go get full STi check and a pregnancy test purely for the ease of mind they could bring.

bert61

ask_the_doctor wrote: »

http://www.emaxhealth.com/55/1365.html <--- might be of interest to you

Go to your doc ASAP and see if you can be prescribed antiretrovirals.

The risk is small but you might as well do everything you can. You'll need to go today or tomorrow though.

nice link. useful