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BOS
09-15-2003, 12:11 AM
Question: Can HIV be transmitted through ingesting seminal fluid?

babs1121
09-15-2003, 12:50 AM
Yes!!

stillsick
09-23-2003, 06:45 PM
Please talk more about the statistical risk HIV infection due to ingesting semen. My doctor tells me I'm crazy to consider it but I performed oral sex on two men (mistakes) of unknown status and have come down with an onslaught of symptoms which must be ARS (fever, sore throat, white tongue, diarrhea for a month, yeast infection, blurry vision, joint pain, etc). I have tested negative at three months since my suspected encounter but before I even suspected HIV, my boyfriend (whom I cheated on with the two mistakes)and I have had sex. And I have also ingested his semen. Could my persisting symptoms and lack of antibodies be due to a reinfection. Please help.

ddd2222
09-23-2003, 07:31 PM
if your test was 3 months past the last exposure that has you worried then it is conclusive.

i'm not sure if i'm right here but I think ingesting semen is risky for the time that you have the semen in your mouth because the mouth is made up of mucuous membranes. I think once it gets to your stomach your stomach acids would overpower it. I am not sure on this though. Your doctor would know more than I would about this though.

summer33ny
09-23-2003, 08:47 PM
Oral sex is very low risk. In fact, I don't think that there are any known cases of it being transmitted this way. There's really no reason to panic over it. Get tested if it bothers you so much.

stillsick
09-23-2003, 10:31 PM
I understand the risk is low but not zero. I have been tested (ELISA/EIA). THRICE! At two months, 2.5, and again at 3. BUT I still had symptoms during the tests. Severe symptoms. My doctor was not concerned at two and a half months, but today I had a consultation about my three month test and he actually acted interested and asked me to tell him my sexual history again. He had ignored it before and given me something for panic disorder. Of course, I only began panicking after my symptoms manifested.

 
 
 




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