Hi, everyone.:)
I gave unprotected oral sex nearly 5 years ago. I was going through a very difficult time, acting out, and just wasn't thinking. I didn't even know anything about the guy, but I did it. I got a little pre-ejaculation on my tongue and afterwards, I'll say a few weeks later, I got bronchitis-like symptoms. I don't know if the sexual encounter had anything to do with it but it could have been the fact that the weather was really cold and I had taken up smoking.

I've always been kind of a hypochondriac (once I convinced myself I had both tuberculosis and West Nile Virus) so I don't know anymore. I have really been worrying about this hard lately but I haven't come down with any type of sickness.

Any help, comments, conversation y'all can give would be great.
xoxo:cool:

This happend 5 years ago? Have you ever been tested for HIV? If you have been tested in the last 5 years then you should know your HIV status on that issue...If you have not been tested then I think that you definately should get test. If you are sexually active you should get test once every 6month. That is just my opinion.

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I'm not sexually active. That was the first and only time I've done anything sexually. I've never been tested either.

the CDC suggests that oral sex (particularly receptive oral sex) is a low to no-risk probability of transmission. Because the HIV virus is very fragile, it would be highly unlikely that any pre-ejaculate could survive the enzymes present in saliva, etc. I would think the bronchitis symptoms were just coincidental to the other factors. chris

I don't think your incident was anything to worry about...but You should still be tested. I think it is very important to know you status and It makes you feel confident and sure!

Yeah, I don't think I'd worry much. But let this be a lesson to you to be more responsible. Sex isn't a game. Some of my friends believe they can sleep around and it's okay, and maybe it is if all they have is intercourse and they use protection, okay fine. But sex to me includes much more than intercourse, and I always wait for meaningful relationships to prosper into something where making love is more typical.

But anyway, I recently got tested for hiv. It's incredible what your mind can do to you, geesh. I was with this girl for one week. Things were going faaaaast. So fast I ended the relationship. But before it ended, she and her happy hands gave me a hand job. She told me she was only with 1 guy before, and that guy was tested before they did anything. And STILL I was nervous I had something.

But hearing "nonreactive" and walking out of that place, geez I felt so proud of myself. And looking back on it, I was truly a dumbass for worrying myself like that. However, it is something I took as a learning experience. From now on, if the topic of sex comes up in a relationship, then we're going to go about it in a mature manner, which means we'll talk about our history, if we've been tested, and if we haven't we'd look into it, etc.

I completely agree with you. When I ever have sex again we are definetly going to get tested first and be in a relationship for a long time. I don't ever want to go through that worry again!

I plan on getting tested after I get my car so I can go by myself. Thanks to everyone who replied. I don't feel as worried as I did, now I just want to get tested and know for sure. =)