I was sharing a cigarette with a really nice girl that i've met a month ago. Today, she went to a hospital and they tested her for STD's. She tested HIV positive and AIDS has already developed in her body. Now im kind of nervous because I don't know if I could get infected or not...if you have any advice..
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lol, miss molly....that should be a bumper sticker.  "Don't share a joints with girls outside the VD clinic!"  Priceless.\n\nAnyhow, I would assume not. If you cannot catch it from the following ways, I would guess a cigarette is not much different:\n\nThere is no evidence that HIV can be spread through the following: kissing; SHARING FOOD UTENSILS, towels or bedding; swimming in pools; using toilet seats; using telephones; or having mosquito or other insect bites. http://www.intelihealth.com/ih/ihtih/wsi...\n\nAND:\n\nYou cannot contract AIDS from: beds, breathing, chewing pencils, clothing, combs or hairbrushes, coughing or sneezing, drinking fountains, door knobs, gum, hot tubs, hugging, kissing, nail files, shaking hands, sharing food or drinks, silverware, sitting in the same classroom, swimming pools, tears, telephones, toilet seats, touching \ntowels \nhttp://www.caps.ucsf.edu/capsweb/curricu...
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i definitly think that you should see a doctor and stop sleeping with guys that you are unsure whether they have something or not.  Always make sure who you are sleeping with because some day you might come back with AIDS other than an STD.  Tell your doctor your problem and they would surely find a solution to your problem.  If you only slept with one guy i suggest that you confront him about this and make sure that you use protection next time.
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Damn, my man. Like you said, kudos to her for being honest enough to say something, but at the end of the day you gotta get away! If she said she has AIDS, would you be like 'well she told me the truth, I respect her honesty, so I'm going to stay with her'? Hell no!! My Aunt and Uncle had Hep, it damaged thier liver and they eventually died from health complications. No good. \n\nBest wishes, I know thats gotta be a difficult decision to have.
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I'll try to keep it simple, but comprehensive\n\nThe main symptom of HIV is that the body begins to kill off its own T-Cells, which help to keep the body disease-free. When the number of T-Cells reaches a certain critical low point, AIDS can develop.\n\nHIV is a virus, which means that it is small enough to enter other cells in the body. When it enters a cell, it messes around with the cell's DNA and turns it into a virus factory. The more viruses there are, more T-cells die. The medications that your friend is taking should kill off some of the virus, but HIV can adapt to drugs quickly and sometimes develop immunity to the medicines.\n\nIf your friend has a good T-Cell count, that means that he still has many of his T-Cells, enough to stay relatively healthy. Viral load simply is a measure of how much of the HIV virus is inside of his body. High viral load is bad. Low viral load is good.\n\nIf your friend is sexually active, he MUST USE A CONDOM AT ALL TIMES! I CANNOT STRESS THIS ENOUGH. Also, he should avoid sexual contact when he is having an outbreak (this is when virus production kicks into overdrive. This can happen either spontaneously, or because it develops an immunity to the medicine he is taking). As long as he uses a condom, takes his medication, and doesn't have sex during his outbreaks, the chances of spreading HIV are marginal (but still POSSIBLE, as condoms are not 100% effective)\n\nI hope i helped you with this. Please respond here or e-mail me back with any other questions. E-mail: mrwasabi90@hotmail.com (Preferably e-mail)\n\nIf you want more information I suggest calling Dr. Drew on LoveLine. He is a board-certified physician and will gladly answer questions about sex, STDs, drug addiction, etc. 1-800-LOVE-191 (call between 10pm and 12 PM Pacific Standard Time)\n\nAll I can say to you and your friend is good luck.
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humm, the question to ask yourself is do you want the possibility of getting the virus? Sure you can practise safe sex but there are still possibilities. I congratualte the girl who told you, she was honest and that means she is a good person. Its a tough question, if you decide not to date her please be honest with her and your fears and thank her for beign honest. remember she is a person too and she too has to deal with having the virus and dating.
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Among other things like AIDS and other STDs, you can get e.coli (not healthy at all).  Best to use a condom for everything.
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wait untill yuor married to a clean person then you wouldn't have to worry about crap like that. AIDS HERPES, DEATH STB= Seavualy Transmited Babys
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if the female is HIV negative too you're safe , but is she is positive you both may get it, the chance is about 3-4% for female to male trasnmition, male to female has much greater chance of about 30%.\n \nbut you should know that exposing yourself to these high risk behaviours can be very dangerous and the risk is much greater  than having a safe relationship.
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Only if you pick up a sexually transmitted disease. So, as long as you take precautions, yoou should be okay.
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if you do not have any open cuts or sores you cannot contract HIV from him just by getting blood on your finger. i know it's scary but you'll be ok, get tested though just for piece of mind. hope that helps :)
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You can easily get an STD from oral sex--like herpes, AIDS/HIV... Use flavored condoms or if you are in a monogamous relationship you should both be tested before going without.
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i dont get it! Did you get some type of STD or something?  If you knew you had it why would you do that to her? if you just found out, maybe she gave it to you! the point is you need to sit with her and give her the 411, bacause if you dont tell her, chances are she's gonna sleep with someone else and in case you didnt know it's SPREADING. i know my a** wouldnt want anything even though it's curable. You just need to own up to it let her know you didnt know you had it and you should both go to family plan or planned parenthood it's anonymous and get through it together.
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well...with such bad linguistic and conversational skills, it looks like u had sex with a junkie or a commercially paid woman.\nthat also points toward u being a possible addict.\nwith such high risk lifestyles...i dont really trust u for having used a condom throughout.\ngo get a western blot for hiv done 180 days after the episode.\nif tat comes negative u dont have aids/hiv infection\nif that comes positive, please study further and try to improve your grammar, spellings et al.
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HIV/AIDS is spread through body fluids (ie blood, semen, vaginal fluids) as well as from used infected needles.  If someone who is HIV positive is giving a facial massage, you cannot contract it simply by them touching you.  However, if they have a cut on their hand and you have an open sore on your body, it is possible to contract it that way.  But even in that case there still has to be enough active HIV components in the blood in order to affect you.  If this is a personal experience for you, sounds like you are worrying over nothing.  If your mind still isn't at ease, wait about two months and get tested!
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I think that you are thinking too much, and not about the right things. 1) why in the world didn't you get an HIV test when getting all other tests???do you really think that was fair to your wife? That you may have HIV is very remote from what you describe.\n2) There are so many diseases out there...was the tattoo needle NEW...as in disposable, or one that came from a sterilizer...if not new from package, your danger of catching something there was infinantely higher than sex with a prostitute. 3) Some diseases that are transmitted via tattoo: Hep B, Hep A, Hep C, syph, Malaria, typhus, thyphoid, staph to name a few.\n4) Your syptoms may have nothing to do with either tattoo or sex. Get thee to a doc specializing in diseases..I cannot believe you have not had a battery of work being done on you. YOu could easily have strep infection that has gone way beyone strep throat..such as infection of the heart valves, kidneys, etc. I suspect the "Flu" symptoms are the key here, not the sex or the tattoo. These things could well be confusing the issue. Best of luck to you, and get a damned HIV test..what the hell are you afraid of??
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Possible. One can have HIV infection from infected blood or sexual fluids. If you happen to touch  an infected blood or sexual fluid and you accidentally touch your wound (if you have one) or you happen to touch the part of your sex organ that is most sensitive to the virus (by having sex with yourself as you said??), then you might get HIV...Just making an analysis.
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std's do not lead to aids unless you have the HIV virus, which is only one type of std.  there are also many many others.\ndo not hesitate to see a doctor...i can promise you that they have seen and heard things way worse than your 'problem'.  he will probably just prescribe a lotion to apply to the affected area...and before you even get home he would've forgotten all about it.