confused and scared on HIV infection?

Question

I am 26 years old and I had my first sex with a girl before 2 months (I don’t know the girl earlier). She gave me blw job and then we had sex, we used condom for both blw job and sex. After finishing sex she went inside restroom and soaked a towel in mild hot water and gave it to me to wipe things from my penis. I removed condom and wiped my penis with the towel which she gave me. All of a sudden (after 2 months) suddenly I got scared and confused whether I got affected by HIV or not. There are 2 reasons for my confusion

1) I am not sure whether the girl I had sex have HIV or not.
2) I am getting some weird feeling that the wet towel she gave me had HIV virus. Since I cleaned my penis with the mild hot wet towel I am getting the feeling that HIV might have got into my body (assuming that the towel had HIV virus).

I am extremely scared and confused, please clarify my doubts.

Answer 1

Calm down--you did all you could to prevent HIV aside from not having sex at all. As far as the towel thing goes , she was cleaning up and thought you should too, my hubby does it all the time. HIV is a blood bourne and mucus to mucus virus and dies when exposed to air, so there was not HIV on the towel. I am ophthalmic assistant and once i was removing eyelid sutures and accidently stabbed myself with the bloody knife. I was paranoid for a long time. We had a lot of aids patients and you do not have to wash your hands, brush your teeth, change your clothes, wipe off the chair or any of that , so calm down and just be carefull in your sexual experiences. And if you still feel parnoid, find a girl to date for several months before sex and ask her as well as yourself to be tested to be safe, she should understand.

Answer 2

It sounds like you had an encounter with a "professional"!! ;)

HIV is a very weak virus. It doesn't withstand being out in the air very long. For disease transmission to occur, it helps to have body fluid to body fluid direct contact. Passing it to a towel and then to the surface of the penis is a much lower probability method of transmission than unprotected sex or needle sharing during IV drug use - which are two of the most common modes of transmission.

Testing is now very cheap and very effective. To safely rule it out, you would need to undergo two tests. One now, and then another, later. The idea being that if you are incubating a low number of virus particles now, you could perhaps test falsely negative, but then later, you'd test positive. If you take two tests several months apart and they are both negative, you're free.

As to the "wierd feeling", that part is in your head. HIV has absolutely no dependable symptom pattern. You have no way of knowing other than a blood draw.

You should do this, mostly because you are freaking out, and freaking out is not healthy.

Answer 3

Well if you were wearing a condom you really should be ok. Maybe she was just wiping your penis off from the latex or spremacide. But theres really no way you could get HIV from a towel. Hope this settles your worries.

Answer 4

I seem to recall reading that HIV antibodies were present for the first 6 months or so after initial infection.

Since you have a timeline of when you might be infected (2months ago) get tested immediately. Confer your concerns with the clinic staff.

Get tested immediately for the common STD's as well.

Answer 5

don't play with fire if you don't like to get burned