Is this a cause of concern?

[001surfergirl]

The other person held my chopsticks and as far as I know, he has some scratches and scrapes on his palms. I used the chopsticks to eat and I have 2 mouth sores in my mouth. I'm not sure if the other person is on medication. If there was some blood from his hand that got transferred to the chopsticks which I used to eat and I have mouth sores, is this a source of concern? Please answer. I'm really worried.

[mike_no]

If you feel your situation is a risk for HIV transmission, I have news for you - You should be rather worried about injuring your finger nail against your mobile phone screen while typing a response to this, that injury leading to sepsis and it further damaging your kidney, lungs, liver or all of them at once leading to death. Seems very unlikely? So does your situation!

No one ever contracted HIV that way, you aren't going to be the peculiar one.

Scientific and logical reasoning has been provided to you in earlier responses, please read them again carefully.

If you still fail to get over this by yourself, see a therapist for your irrational fears. You don't have an HIV concern, please accept the assistance offered to you.

Good luck.

[001surfergirl]

Hello, mike_no. Thank you for answering. Let me clarify though that this is not a story that I am imagining. The other person picked up the chopsticks, handed it to me, and we started eating. And then I remembered that he has some scrapes on his palms. He was scratching it often and people will often tell him to stop doing that. Again, it's not just my imagination.

I am asking a question because if a little amount of blood got transferred to the chopsticks from his scratches and I used the chopsticks and I have mouth sores and my gums were also bleeding the day before.

Some research say that dried blood can still be infectious even after a few days. And mouth sores and bleeding gums are equivalent to open wounds.

[AnxiousNoMore]

Reread about "unrealistic" because you don't have any medical training so your hiv theory is just very bad science fiction. Quit googling cold turkey because you aren't a doctor so don't know how to do the hiv research you are claiming is true.

[AnxiousNoMore]

I meant it would help you if you quit googling cold turkey because you aren't a doctor so don't know how to do the hiv research you are claiming is true.

[001surfergirl]

Hi, AnxiousNoMore. I 'm not sure what you mean by "very bad science fiction". The other person has scratches and scrapes on his palms. I have mouth sores and bleeding gums. He picked up the chopsticks and handed them to me. These are facts.

[AnxiousNoMore]

They are just bleeding cuts, but you have turned them into a science fiction risk for hiv, which you are so focused on that you have refused to listen to anything mike and I told you.
Let's make this simple - which of the ONLY 3 do you feel was your risk?

[mike_no]

Your situation is not something that belongs to this forum. It's clear that you struggle from irrational thoughts, the idea of blood oozing from finger(s), then getting transferred to your food and supposedly, you eating it. This whole thing is a story that you are imagining in your mind.

This is an HIV prevention forum. Please see a counselor for your irrational thoughts. Nevertheless, you didn't have a risk, you can't contract HIV from ingesting infected fluid. Gastric acid in your stomach would have inhibited the virus.

[AnxiousNoMore]

This answers all of your HIV questions, and if you can think of any more just reread about the 3. You had zero risk therefore  testing is irrelevant to your situation because you had zero risk. HIV is a fragile virus, which is instantly inactivated in air and also in saliva which means it is effectively dead so it can't infect from touching, external rubbing or oral activities. It doesn't matter if you and they were actively bleeding or had cuts at the time either because the HIV is effectively dead.  
Only 3 adult risks are the following:
1. unprotected penetrating vaginal with a penis
2. unprotected penetrating anal sex with a penis
3. sharing needles that you inject with.
The only way to get HIV is if you did one of the 3. The situation you describe is a long way from any of these 3.
Even with blood, lactation, cuts, rashes, burns, etc the air or the saliva does not allow inactivated virus to infect from touching, external rubbing or oral activities. Doctors have calculated the risk from what you describe to be less than that of being hit by a meteor, therefore no one will get HIV from what you did in the next 40 years of your life either. The above HIV science is 40 years old and very well established, so no detail that you can add to your encounter will change it from zero risk.
If you didn't have one of the 3 then you are just worrying about your own hiv theory - which is unrealistic for you to think that can become reality - so you should move on back to your happy life instead.