
Had Protected Anal Sex But Unprotected Oral Sex. Chances Of HIV?

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Oral sex has been shown to be a less risky activity, but it is not risk free. Again, it depends on the viral load of the person with HIV and the dental health of the person performing oral sex. It’s also worth remembering that other sexually transmitted infections, such as syphilis, herpes and gonorrhea, can be quite easily transmitted through oral sex.
Doctors and researchers can't be sure how many people have been infected with HIV through oral sex. Some think hardly anybody has been infected with HIV from oral sex, but other people think that as many as 3% of infections are due to oral sex.
If you are not sure about the HIV status of your partner, It is important to get the testing for HIV,but please remember that in first three months ( window period) the person may be infected with HIV but tests may be negative, so a repeat testing in 12 weeks is needed to confirm the negative test.
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If I went for a test right now, would the other tests besides the HIV test tell me if I was infected? or do they have that same waiting period?
There are other STD like hepatitis B and C, syphilis, Chlamydia, gonorrhea, herpes etc.
Most of them are detectable by the blood tests, urine test and site specific swabs.
Regarding the symptoms, majority of the diseases are asymptomatic for a long period, although urinary discharge, pus, generalized malaise, fever, etc can be the presenting symptoms.
Every disease has its own time in which it may be undetectable by the investigations and needs repeat testing to confirm the negative result.
One day is probably too short a period to detect any thing in blood or other samples, so any drug without the diagnosis is not recommend.

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