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Am I at risk? Help me

Hello, I'm very hypochondriac and I can't stop thinking about the possibility of being infected of HIV. I'm very anxious and I started to think about some risky actions I might have done. Here they are:
1: I always shared blade razors with my brother and sometimes (very very few) with my friend. I don't think any of them are infected but for the purpose of the inquiry let's say they are. Now, I never used them  immediately after them, always several minutes or even hours or days after. There was never any visible blood on it but sometimes I unintentionally cut myself shile shaving and it worries me my blood could have gotten in contact with some old blood in the blades. If it was it was very little and not visible, and most surely dried. Also, shaving cuts are not very deep but they tend to bleed a lot. I'm really worried.

2: Giving oral sex without ejaculation and without condom. I have read it's very low, specially without semen, but there might have been pre cum, very Little but some. Also, I didn't have any visible cuts or injuries on my mouth.

3: Frottage without clothing and without condom. I have been told not to worry about it (even when I might have had some small fissures or tears on the vagina due to losing my virginity short before this) but i mention it just in case because it worries me some pre cum might have gotten in contact with the fissure? There wasn't visible blood but I was sore.
4: Kissing with an open mout when he had a cut on his lip. It wasn't currently bleeding and I didn't have any cuts or blood.

Thank you and sorry to bother, it's consuming me and i can't stop thinking about it and I can't even sleep
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Although not a risk for HIV, sharing razors with anyone is very unhygienic and can lead to a number of bacterial infections. I wouldn't recommend doing this anymore and in fact you should insist that everyone uses their own razor for that reason.
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Your situation involves personal contact with an object in air  ( razor, someone's body, mouth, penis, lips etc. which is not a risk for hiv.) No worries, because you can't get hiv from personal contact except unprotected penetrating vaginal or anal, neither of which you did and you didn't share hollow needles to inject with which is the only other way to acquire 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.
Whoever told you oral is low risk uses theoretical guidelines that have never manifested in 40 years of hiv history - and won't happen in the next 40 of your life either. It is unhealthy to spend your life worrying about a disease that is hard to catch that you haven't even been exposed to, so I suggest therapy instead of dwelling about this alone any more.
All of the activities you mention are risks for Covid however, and some are 100% guaranteed for you to catch it if the other person is positive, so you are worrying about the wrong virus. Here is the Covid forum.           https://www.medhelp.org/forums/Coronavirus/show/2203
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Thank you so much for your fast reply! I was beginning to lose my mind since all these websites said the main risks were anal and vaginal sex but also oral, even official medicine webs, although they did say it was a low risk, but I was afraid because I might have swallow some pre cum without noticing.

Thank you really, that and the razor situation were my main concerns since I also saw that in medicine websites. Just one question, it's not possible for the virus to survive in the razor for minutes or hours? Since I didn't see any blood on it I assumed it was wiped out or even dried. Can it infect when it's dry?

Thank you so much! And sorry for any inconveniences
You should reread the advice because there are only 3, so it is a lot easier to just note not to do the 3 than to spend so much of your life wondering about the thousands of other things that a person can do that are not in the 3.
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