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a week ago I got the vaccine against covid 19.
during the vaccination process the nurse did not open a new syringe in my presence which made me think that she may have strained the syringe to another person or if the nurse herself is infected and may have intentionally inserted blood to infect me.
How do you think I should be tested because I live in a country where medicine is not responsible
during the vaccination process the nurse did not open a new syringe in my presence which made me think that she may have strained the syringe to another person or if the nurse herself is infected and may have intentionally inserted blood to infect me.
How do you think I should be tested because I live in a country where medicine is not responsible
Why do you think a nurse would not use proper protocol? This is kind of the imagining of an anxious mind. Most nations have plenty of syringes and use new ones for each injection. I would not suspect anything other than that from your covid vaccination and congratulations on getting vaccinated.
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Your fear is not realistic. There are 5,000 diseases or conditions that CAN happen with no notice (like waking up with cancer for example) but you are wasting your life worrying about one that CAN'T even happen. Therefore you can't spend your life on guard against every disease. It makes no sense to waste your life worrying about 1 disease that doesn't even happen when you see a nurse, pretending to yourself that it was the only disease that can strike you.
In fact hiv is not everywhere around you infecting from someone's touch and nurses are not dumb enough to infect you, so you are wasting your life fixated on something that can't even happen.
In fact hiv is not everywhere around you infecting from someone's touch and nurses are not dumb enough to infect you, so you are wasting your life fixated on something that can't even happen.
I understand you are afraid and have questions. But you have to trust that those working in medicine are doing their job and following the proper protocol. I would say your chance is ZERO because this is not how a vaccine is given. You live in a developed country (assuming) and medical care is regulated. They are not going to reuse a needle. You also make an assumption that someone else receiving injections before you have HIV. Very few people relative to the population have HIV. But regardless, the nurse didn't reuse a needle. If you find yourself often worrying about these things, you likely spend a good portion of your time in a state of anxiety. Anxiety is a disorder that is treatable and my suggestion is to talk to your doctor about it. We want you to find a way to live life without that sense of doom from simple things that everyone else is doing (getting a covid vaccination).
You are simpli amaizing .
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