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Very Bad HIV Anxiety From Barber Razor Cut
Hello, I’ve always had HIV anxiety, but lately it has been almost unbearable at times. I also have a contamination OCD, especially with blood and urine.
About 2 1/2 weeks ago I was getting a hair cut and my barber of 3 years had accidentally cut/nicked me around my chin by my goatee with the straight razor. It wasn’t a bad cut, but it did bleed. He said it was a small pimple that he accidentally cut open. Once that happened, I freaked out inside and automatically thought about possible HIV transmission. I didn’t pay attention to him cleaning the blade before he used it on me, but I went to him 2 more times recently and he changed the blade and sanitized the chavette. Any possibility say if he forgot to change the blade or sanitize it for transmission to occur? I was his very first client that morning.
Another thing that has been driving me crazy is the fact that exactly 2 weeks later after the barber razor cut, which was Friday, May 10th, I started to feel a slight sore throat and possibly swollen lymph node on right side of my jaw right on the jaw bone. The node or whatever it is I could pull along with my skin? The sore throat was on the opposite side which was the left side btw. I did meet up with a woman I know and we deep kissed two days prior to that which was on Wednesday, May 8th. She was also sick about 8-9 days prior to us meeting and stated she wasn’t contagious anymore but had a cough still. So I’m confused on if I could have picked up a very light bug from her, or possible HIV ARS from the barber razor cut? Or is it all bad anxiety causing that? My anxiety spiked so high on that Saturday which was the very next day that I was running 98.9-99.8 temperature all day long on top of the gland swelling. Could extreme anxiety cause that elevated temperature as well. My body tends to elevate in temperature under bad to extreme anxiety. I know this is a lot but I really need some help right now. Thank you.
About 2 1/2 weeks ago I was getting a hair cut and my barber of 3 years had accidentally cut/nicked me around my chin by my goatee with the straight razor. It wasn’t a bad cut, but it did bleed. He said it was a small pimple that he accidentally cut open. Once that happened, I freaked out inside and automatically thought about possible HIV transmission. I didn’t pay attention to him cleaning the blade before he used it on me, but I went to him 2 more times recently and he changed the blade and sanitized the chavette. Any possibility say if he forgot to change the blade or sanitize it for transmission to occur? I was his very first client that morning.
Another thing that has been driving me crazy is the fact that exactly 2 weeks later after the barber razor cut, which was Friday, May 10th, I started to feel a slight sore throat and possibly swollen lymph node on right side of my jaw right on the jaw bone. The node or whatever it is I could pull along with my skin? The sore throat was on the opposite side which was the left side btw. I did meet up with a woman I know and we deep kissed two days prior to that which was on Wednesday, May 8th. She was also sick about 8-9 days prior to us meeting and stated she wasn’t contagious anymore but had a cough still. So I’m confused on if I could have picked up a very light bug from her, or possible HIV ARS from the barber razor cut? Or is it all bad anxiety causing that? My anxiety spiked so high on that Saturday which was the very next day that I was running 98.9-99.8 temperature all day long on top of the gland swelling. Could extreme anxiety cause that elevated temperature as well. My body tends to elevate in temperature under bad to extreme anxiety. I know this is a lot but I really need some help right now. Thank you.
Your situation involves personal contact with an object in air (maybe someone's hiv blood on razor, cut, hands, etc. ) . You will be happy to learn that you had no risk, because you can't get hiv from personal contact except unprotected penetrating vaginal or anal with a penis, neither of which you did and you didn't share hollow needles to inject with which is the only other way to acquire hiv - there are ONLY 3 ways to get hiv. Note that 2 of them require a penis and the third requires a hollow injecting shared needle - there are no OTHER ways to get hiv. Analysis of large numbers of infected people over the 40 years of hiv history has proven that people don't get hiv in the way you are worried is a risk.
Hiv is a fragile virus in air or saliva and is effectively instantly dead in either air or saliva so the WORST that could happen is dead virus rubbed you, and obviously anything which is dead cannot live again so you are good. Blood and cuts would not be relevant in your situation since the hiv has become effectively dead, so you don't have to worry about them to be sure that you are safe.
There is no reason for a person to test when they are safe. The advice took into consideration that the other person might be positive, so move on and enjoy life instead of thinking about this non-event. hiv prevention is straightforward since there are only 3 ways you can become infected, so next time you wonder if you had a risk, ask yourself this QUESTION. "Did I do any of the 3?" Then after you ANSWER "No, there wasn't a penis in an anus or vagina and I wasn't injected" you will know that it's time to move on back to your happy life.
No one got hiv from what you did during 40 years of hiv history and no one will get it in the next 40 years of your life either. You can do what you did any time and be safe from hiv.
The other person's status is irrelevant when you have no exposure to live virus.
If you still have questions about your risk, after reading all of the above, then it is because you didn't answer the QUESTION above.
If hiv was as easy to acquire as you fear, then everyone would have it by now and you would have friends and family who got it from a similar kind of contact.
99.8 isn't a fever and you don't know how to check glands or nodes, so you should stop wasting your time playing doctor. Since you are unmasked around others, you should expect to catch a sore throat once in a while (instead of being so surprised that you take a wild guess that it's hiv acting up) but based on all your other self-diagnosed (but imaginary) symptoms you likely imagined the "slight sore throat" too.
Hiv is a fragile virus in air or saliva and is effectively instantly dead in either air or saliva so the WORST that could happen is dead virus rubbed you, and obviously anything which is dead cannot live again so you are good. Blood and cuts would not be relevant in your situation since the hiv has become effectively dead, so you don't have to worry about them to be sure that you are safe.
There is no reason for a person to test when they are safe. The advice took into consideration that the other person might be positive, so move on and enjoy life instead of thinking about this non-event. hiv prevention is straightforward since there are only 3 ways you can become infected, so next time you wonder if you had a risk, ask yourself this QUESTION. "Did I do any of the 3?" Then after you ANSWER "No, there wasn't a penis in an anus or vagina and I wasn't injected" you will know that it's time to move on back to your happy life.
No one got hiv from what you did during 40 years of hiv history and no one will get it in the next 40 years of your life either. You can do what you did any time and be safe from hiv.
The other person's status is irrelevant when you have no exposure to live virus.
If you still have questions about your risk, after reading all of the above, then it is because you didn't answer the QUESTION above.
If hiv was as easy to acquire as you fear, then everyone would have it by now and you would have friends and family who got it from a similar kind of contact.
99.8 isn't a fever and you don't know how to check glands or nodes, so you should stop wasting your time playing doctor. Since you are unmasked around others, you should expect to catch a sore throat once in a while (instead of being so surprised that you take a wild guess that it's hiv acting up) but based on all your other self-diagnosed (but imaginary) symptoms you likely imagined the "slight sore throat" too.
Okay thank you for that. I’m really working on my HIV anxiety. Just coincidental with the mild symptoms I had and from it being on the 14th day. But that could be anything.
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Your "symptoms" are self diagnosed and seem imaginary. No one here will take them seriously and you shouldn't either.
There are thousands of diseases or health conditions that you can actually get at any time WITH ZERO WARNING, so your fixation on hiv that you can't get is illogical. For example, 7 people get bubonic plague each year in the US. Last one died and the previous got it from his cat, yet you don't fear cats, so see a therapist to see if they can help with your illogical fears.
There are thousands of diseases or health conditions that you can actually get at any time WITH ZERO WARNING, so your fixation on hiv that you can't get is illogical. For example, 7 people get bubonic plague each year in the US. Last one died and the previous got it from his cat, yet you don't fear cats, so see a therapist to see if they can help with your illogical fears.
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