How did you contract HIV?

[PURE EXTRACT]

HIV scares the shit out of me. I honestly can't even say if I fully understand it yet. Let me make sure I'm getting this right. If you're getting tested every year for lets say for the last 4 years, and you haven't been with anyone different since then and neither has your gf, you can still come up positive one day??

 

[babybodybuilder2.5]

HIV scares the shit out of me. I honestly can't even say if I fully understand it yet. Let me make sure I'm getting this right. If you're getting tested every year for lets say for the last 4 years, and you haven't been with anyone different since then and neither has your gf, you can still come up positive one day??

Hey Pure Extract,
I am glad that you are getting tested each year. Is your girlfriend getting tested as well? It only takes one time for either of you to get caught up in something that you didn't think could happen (Cheating ). Incubation period for HIV can be as little as 6 month. Does that suprise you? Most people, feel that they are ok, because they trust their partners. I did the same, and he infected me, as I stated above. As long as you both are getting tested yearly, and you truely trust each other. I would like to think that you would be ok. Strange things can happen to each of us, when we least expect it. Your best solution for preventing any kind of infection to each other would be to use condoms , all the time. I know that most guys don't want to hear that, but it's the truth.
Be happy and Play safe......

 

[PURE EXTRACT]

hey, man. Thanks for the fast reply. I know that she hasn't been with anyone simply because we live too close and we spend toooo much time together. It would be almost impossible for anything to be going on without me knowing. But let's just say that we both haven't been with anyone but eachother for the last 3 years. Now, is it still possible to get HIV? That's just what always scares me is that someone that I've slept with like 7 years ago had something and years later after being tested and coming up negative, I'll get it too. Not that anyone that I've slept with is positive...but you honestly can never know.

 

[babybodybuilder2.5]

hey, man. Thanks for the fast reply. I know that she hasn't been with anyone simply because we live too close and we spend toooo much time together. It would be almost impossible for anything to be going on without me knowing. But let's just say that we both haven't been with anyone but eachother for the last 3 years. Now, is it still possible to get HIV? That's just what always scares me is that someone that I've slept with like 7 years ago had something and years later after being tested and coming up negative, I'll get it too. Not that anyone that I've slept with is positive...but you honestly can never know.

I'm not the one to say that it will never happen. Anything is possiable. There are different way of contracting HIV. I would recommend you do some searching on the internet to learn more about all the different ways of contracting HIV. All I can say is that if you both keep getting tested each year, everything should be ok.

 

[marknyc]

Getting tested every year will not protect you from HIV! The only reason to get tested is if you're regularly putting yourself at risk for infection, and if you are, testing will not keep you safe.

If you are having sex without a condom, you have to be comfortable putting your life in your partner's hands. That means complete trust, and knowing that if either of you ever do it with someone else, you will be able to tell each other and use condoms until you both retest.

Don't rely on testing to keep you HIV negative - rely on each other or on condoms.

Mark

P.S. HIV will show up on a test within 6 months of infection. If you test negative after 6 months, you don't have to worry it will show up later.

 

[chgolatin2]

"I don't "play" with boys, and I only have one girl in my life to worry about, so I think I'm okay" quote from "norgeprecision"


HIV is not a gay issue anymore it is everybody's issue, everyone is at risk especially if you dont play it safe. I lost my mother and father to AIDS due to drug use.

Stilll people like youself are being ignorant and still taking risk EVERYDAY because they are heterosexuals, bisexuals, gay or whatever. Nothing is quaranteed in life, not even marriage, boyfriend or girlfriend or so call secure relationship, at times some people cheat that is a FACT OF LIFE but if you do and care about yourself please make sure you protect yourself in order to protect others no matter what sexual orientation you are into.

Also, honesty goes a long way no matter if the truth hurts!

Please be safe! Latin

 

[eddou1290]

Well I wasn't going to post a reply to this thread, cause i felt that it was my business and no one elses. After some thought I have changed my mind. If I get long winded , I'm sorry.
When I was 20 years old, I feel in Love for the first time. Moved in with him after 6 months. He had alredy tested Neg to HIV. So, I felt I was safe. You see he was my Very First sexual experince ever! I wanted to make that point clear . We never used condoms, I didn't see the need for it. Boy was I mistaken. He and I had been together for about 7 years. Things were getting rocky. It was then that I got sick, went to the doctor and foud out I had HIV. I had all the symptoms, so I wasn't to shocked. He finally told me that he hads been cheating on me for the last 3 years of our relationship. He had brought it home to me. Well at that time, when I found out about my status I was already sick, and soon went into the hospital. It was feared that I would not come out. I had been diagnosed with full blown Aids. Finally after 6 weeks, I was able to come home. He and I split up and I have not seen him since 1993. I found out later that he had died. Cancer of the tongue and throat. Isn't that something? I have been living with HIV since April 1992.
Well I just hope that those of you who read this thread will really think about using condoms or not using them. It is to late for me , dont make the same mistake.
Always play safe.......

May I ask you a question? Seriously I am just curious, how did you progress to full blow AIDS in less than 5 years? The incubation period of most HIV cases progressing to AIDS is about 10 years average? Was there a unique situation? Not to sound wrong here but really I'm just curious.......

 

[eddou1290]

hey, man. Thanks for the fast reply. I know that she hasn't been with anyone simply because we live too close and we spend toooo much time together. It would be almost impossible for anything to be going on without me knowing. But let's just say that we both haven't been with anyone but eachother for the last 3 years. Now, is it still possible to get HIV? That's just what always scares me is that someone that I've slept with like 7 years ago had something and years later after being tested and coming up negative, I'll get it too. Not that anyone that I've slept with is positive...but you honestly can never know.

For the Record >>> NEGATIVE HERE, I guess I just know too much!

There is a 6 month "window". Let's put it this way, your LAST partner/encounter IF it was your LAST, to get a accurate test result you would have to wait at least 6 months to get a standard ELISA Hiv test, and to be very sure, one more test 6 months after that.

The ELISA Hiv test (the most common) does NOT actually test for the prescence of the HIV virus in your blood but rather the ANTIBODIES that your body produces to the HIV virus (these antibodies are specific to the HIV virus only and they therefore can mostly rely on the fact that IF you test postitive for the anitbodies then you indeed have HIV and thus get a diagnosis of HIV positive.) It can take the human body anywhere from 4 weeks to 6 months to produce these antibodies AFTER being exposed to HIV so that is where the "6 month window" thing comes from.

ALSO, there is a much more accurate and more costly test, called a PCR, used more in health care settings for health workers or prison workers, in case of exposure, the PCR test can detect exposure to within 72 hours I believe and actually detects the virus itself as well as antibodies.

If you have had the standard ELISA test and tested negative, and been with the same person ONLY and she was ONLY with you, > truly monogamous, and she also tested negative, then you have nothing to worry about.

 

[babybodybuilder2.5]

May I ask you a question? Seriously I am just curious, how did you progress to full blow AIDS in less than 5 years? The incubation period of most HIV cases progressing to AIDS is about 10 years average? Was there a unique situation? Not to sound wrong here but really I'm just curious.......

I have no Clue as to why I got to be full blown in such a short time. I never really gave it much thought. It happened to me and I had to live with it.
Sorry I don't have a better answer, but that's all I have to offer...

 

[beachbouy2005]

Just a thought , to any one who is concerned
If you are in a totally monogamus realtionship then chances are (if no one cheats) you are perfectly okay. Get educated my a certified Health care professional!!!! Knowlege+power and freedom from fear...hello. If you are in sexual relationship and there isnt that "sure thingie", and you DID not use a condom...get tested within 3 months. I had a lover full blown AIDS, we were safe we kissed very well, I never got it. I was tested every 6 months. He passed away there were no meds easily available before 1994. Had a boyfriend HIV+ I was negative, never a problem. Condoms...work.
2.5 years ago, parties, to much sex, no condoms...hello... HIV+... so you guys out there just go get educated from a PROFESSIONAL DOCTOR. And yes a condom can break, and yes your partner may lie about his or her status. HIV has no gender... and HIV has increased in gay males BECAUSE medicine has made is less fearfull, and NO HIV is not a GAY disease and YES HIV is as prevalent in the "straight" community as it is in the gay, but by the last #'s, I believe It is just a "HUMAN" SEXUALLY TRANMITTED VIRUS that knows No Gender!!! lets get real people and stop pointing fingers at gays, duh!!! In case we forget MEN are horny little things, gay or staight and gay guys, yes, we are very into sex, we can get laid 10 times more thean a straight man with a girl. So do the math, thats why it hit the gay community so fast and in such numbers, unfortunately. So lets all remember that through all of this there is great sorrow and compassion for those who have already fallen, MEN WOMEN AND CHILDREN, of all ages. I have lost both straight and gay friends to this and it hurts, a lot! Respect is the only answer.
amen and peace to all (phew)