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HIV contraction fear
I am afraid I might have contracted HIV. So after a workout, I sat in my sweaty briefs on what might have been a blood stain (3 day old stain) of a person with HIV on a bed sheet. After I washed my hands I obliviously wiped them on the same briefs with which I sat on the sheet stain. After that I touched my penis for a prolonged time in the process of masturbating and showering and washing it.
Several days later, today, I was holding a sheet to put in a bag when the lady who gave me the sheet took it from my hands to put it in her self. Now, my hands are cracked and flayed by the dry cold weather, my knuckles full of wounds and sores. There isn't blood on any of them but one or two wounds are open and wet and shiny red, though no blood comes out of it even when wiped.
My questions are 1. Could I have contracted the virus in the manner I described 2. If the wet red wound on my hand came in contact with the part of the sheet the woman touched with her hands, and she had an open wound on her hands or on another body part she later touches, or if she touches her genitalia later with that hsnd for some reason before washing it, could she contract it from me if I have it? I feel horrible and consider whether I should tell her to get post contact prophylaxis, but don't know how to do so, she is a complete stranger to me.
Several days later, today, I was holding a sheet to put in a bag when the lady who gave me the sheet took it from my hands to put it in her self. Now, my hands are cracked and flayed by the dry cold weather, my knuckles full of wounds and sores. There isn't blood on any of them but one or two wounds are open and wet and shiny red, though no blood comes out of it even when wiped.
My questions are 1. Could I have contracted the virus in the manner I described 2. If the wet red wound on my hand came in contact with the part of the sheet the woman touched with her hands, and she had an open wound on her hands or on another body part she later touches, or if she touches her genitalia later with that hsnd for some reason before washing it, could she contract it from me if I have it? I feel horrible and consider whether I should tell her to get post contact prophylaxis, but don't know how to do so, she is a complete stranger to me.
Your situation involves personal contact with an object in air (maybe her fluids, sheet, hands, 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 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. 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 from hiv.
Her status is irrelevant when you have no exposure.
If you could get hiv from touching then everyone on the planet would have it by now because everyone is cut a few times every month and then they touch other people by mistake or shaking hands.
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 from hiv.
Her status is irrelevant when you have no exposure.
If you could get hiv from touching then everyone on the planet would have it by now because everyone is cut a few times every month and then they touch other people by mistake or shaking hands.
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