{"id":234,"date":"2007-12-05T15:42:14","date_gmt":"2007-12-05T14:42:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.i-base.info\/qa\/?p=234"},"modified":"2024-10-14T09:17:51","modified_gmt":"2024-10-14T09:17:51","slug":"what-are-my-chances-of-getting-infected","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/234","title":{"rendered":"What are my chances of having caught HIV?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Thank you for your question.<\/p>\n<p>Your chances of getting infected after any single exposure are usually very low but it is still possible.<\/p>\n<p>In terms of any symptoms after you had unprotected sex regarding your tongue becoming very white and a dry mouth, I would suggest you seek some medical advise &#8211; a doctor needs to look at any symptoms like rash.<\/p>\n<p>The HIV test you took was unlikely to be of any use &#8211; becasue you were still in the &#8216;window period&#8217; before your body would have had time to generate the immune response that the HIV test looks for.<\/p>\n<p>To put your mind at total ease you need to take an HIV test 2-3 months after the possible exposure.<\/p>\n<p>Best wishes<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I had unprotected sex with a female 3 months ago now. It was only one night and I never ejaculated inside her. Soon after I developed a very sore throat and fever for one or two days. That all went but then my tongue became very white and even now, no matter what I do it is still like it and my mouth is always very dry. I had a hiv test after 5 weeks and it came back negative. What are my chances?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-234","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-all-topics","category-hiv-transmission"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=234"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24703,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234\/revisions\/24703"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=234"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=234"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=234"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}