Question: Can HIV be transmitted through ingesting seminal fluid? - HIV Prevention Message Board

09-14-2003, 10:11 PM

Question: Can HIV be transmitted through ingesting seminal fluid?

babs1121 · 09-14-2003, 10:50 PM

Yes!!

09-23-2003, 04:45 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.

09-23-2003, 05:31 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, 06:47 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.