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Hiv from massage
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Yesterday I took a massage. The therapist was wearing full dress. She was wearing a latex gloves in both hands and i was also wearing gloves. No oral no vignal and no anal sex. No intercourse. I had a small cut i don't know when it happened. May be few hours before massage. No bleeding . Small pain when I press the cut harder. Slight pinkish. However I was wearing a latex gloves in both hands. I removed my gloves only at the end of massage session. I am scared whether i touch the table or therapist bare hand (after massage session). Massage therapist was fully dressed
My question is
1. Whether i need HIV testing?
2. Can I move on?
Yesterday I took a massage. The therapist was wearing full dress. She was wearing a latex gloves in both hands and i was also wearing gloves. No oral no vignal and no anal sex. No intercourse. I had a small cut i don't know when it happened. May be few hours before massage. No bleeding . Small pain when I press the cut harder. Slight pinkish. However I was wearing a latex gloves in both hands. I removed my gloves only at the end of massage session. I am scared whether i touch the table or therapist bare hand (after massage session). Massage therapist was fully dressed
My question is
1. Whether i need HIV testing?
2. Can I move on?
Your situation involves personal contact with an object in air (her body , maybe cuts, maybe blood, fluids 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. Note that 2 of them require a penis and the third requires a hollow injecting shared needle - there are no OTHER 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.
The other person's status is irrelevant when you have no exposure to live virus.
You should stop worrying and move on from this non-event.
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.
The other person's status is irrelevant when you have no exposure to live virus.
You should stop worrying and move on from this non-event.
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Without intercourse no one will get HIV. Cuts with heavy bleeding (which required switches in hospital) on both ends is risky right?
Without intercourse no one will get HIV. Cuts with heavy bleeding (which required switches in hospital) on both ends is risky right?
The bleeding on both ends situation doesn't happen in real life. If you don't have protected vaginal or anal intercourse or share IV needles, you do not need to worry about HIV.
Since you didn't answer the QUESTION I'll do it for you. Answer> No there isn't a penis in an anus in the hospital so there is no risk, and I should move on from worrying and wasting my own time with what-if questions.
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