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question about best time to catch hiv - right after partner gets it?
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| dunston 2004-09-10, 11:06 am |
| Last week i had oral give and recieve with a female. Both of us
tested negative a month and a half ago. But i am worried because 6
days later i got a fever and I rarely get sick. She said she had
protected sex in the last month so if she did somehow get it wouldn't
she be most contagious right after? I guess I did only have the fever
for a couple days and had nothing else with it. Anyone have an
opinion?
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| "dunston" <jimmelonis@hotmail.com> wrote in message...
> Last week i had oral give and recieve with a female. Both of us
> tested negative a month and a half ago. But i am worried because 6
> days later i got a fever and I rarely get sick. She said she had
> protected sex in the last month so if she did somehow get it wouldn't
> she be most contagious right after? I guess I did only have the fever
> for a couple days and had nothing else with it. Anyone have an
> opinion?
What I read somewhere is that a person is highly contagious just after
being infected with HIV. I'm not positive about the exact timeline,
but a person gets infected, then it takes the virus a week or
two to establish itself, infecting just enough cells to begin a chain
reaction. Then the virus replicates like mad until the immune system
begins to react enough to counter the attack, perhaps 6 months into
the infection. From that point the immune system keeps the virus
under control - though the person is still infectious - but the viral
load remains far lower than what it was during the earliest stage of
infection. But after about 2-3 years the virus begins winning and
viral load soars again, leading to rapid death if untreated. So the
answer is that if the woman had been infected in the last month, she
would have been extremely contagious, so contagious as to make
female-to-male transmission - usually quite rare - possible. Your
best bet would be to go to a private clinic and demand a PCR test,
not the usual antibody test, which should detect even the earliest
stages of HIV infection.
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