Snorting cocaine

[TomJansen]

Heeeelp
I am panicking
I did snorting cocaine.
Am I at risk for hiv?
Am I at risk for hiv if there was hiv+ blood in the cocaine?

I am in big panic!

[Sara_MHModerator]

Your question has been answered that you had no risk. We wish you the best.

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[TomJansen]

But what if HIV+ bood was in the cocaine? And I snort it into my nose and then it goes into my blood stream? Than it is still not a risk?

I did not share a straw or anything else with someone else.

[AnxiousNoMore]

Your situation involves personal contact with an object in air  ( hands, cocaine, maybe body fluids, maybe blood 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, 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.
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 say "No, I didn't" 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.
hiv is fragile in air and saliva, unlike something like Covid but you are not realizing the differences in infectiousness of different diseases.

[TomJansen]

Okay so I definetely do not need to test?
I am 100% safe?

Thank you for your time!

[TomJansen]

But what if there was hiv+ blood on the money bill I used to snort the cocaine?

[AnxiousNoMore]

No hiv is a fragile virus that is dead in air. hiv science is 40 years old and no one has ever believed it could mutate into an airborne disease.