Sewing needle off poppy pin anxious risk?

[Anxiousonehelp]

I bought a poppy for rememberance day a month ago now forgot all about it but I accidentally pricked my finger with it my
Concern is that I had bought it in store where donate money get a poppy fear is now that someone may have pricked there hand contaminated it with blood then I have pricked my hand and it’s bled. I seen other story’s that are similar and it’s all different answers some say low some say theoretically but if no risk I just want to know my anxieties are high and would like to know if this is risk for me. I don’t understand how sewing needle or injecting needle are same no one has ever said be cautious when it comes to using sewing needle that you bought in a puplic store please help I just want to understand if I should carry in worrying over this if it’s not same as needle injecting how isn’t it? Surely if it was major concern they wouldn’t sell them in puplic like with a poppy that you buy oh rememberence day without making sure people know risks I also read people saying if there was blood left behind on sewing pin needle there is risks please help me understand because if you prick yourself it bleeds then the person before me might done the same I must add this sewing needle pin was purchased month ago and the occasion where it pricked my finger was recent

[GuitarRox]

Just like on any other thread you've seen here, this is ZERO risk. Not theoretical but zero. The ONLY risks for HIV are to have unprotected vaginal or anal sex or share IV needles to INJECT drugs. AIR inactivates the virus. Is a sewing needle an INJECTION? No. It's being poked. Like with anything inanimate, just being poked. It's not an injection into it. NO RISK AT ALL

[Anxiousonehelp]

Ok thank you

[Anxiousonehelp]

So to clarify I bought a poppy which has sewing needle attached to it. Concern is that because I bought it in puplic place that another person may have also pricked there skin and put blood on the sewing needle that I bought it’s out in open there are not boxes. What would be my risk I’m so anxious ocd driving with horrible thoughts I just wanna know if I can move on if no risk

[GuitarRox]

Got it in your first post. No risk. ZERO

[AnxiousNoMore]

Your situation involves personal contact with an object in air  (maybe blood on pin, prick, 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 ANSWER "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.
If you still have questions about your risk, after reading all of the above, then it is because you didn't answer the QUESTION above.

"I seen other story’s that are similar and it’s all different answers some say low some say theoretically" No one here said it was a risk. Do you have an ocd diagnosis?

[Anxiousonehelp]

Yes I have ocd I think that is making me just obsessively think about it ino I shouldn’t read things on internet

[Anxiousonehelp]

And okay thank you

[GuitarRox]

If you have ocd, this is the last thing you should do which is to ask/seek reassurance. THAT will keep you stuck in the cycle of it.

[Anxiousonehelp]

Ano your right just I have read so many different things. Then with sewing needle  and if it had blood on then you poked yourself ect ect there are so many different people saying different things saying it’s more less like injectiong needle which ino it’s not but I just wanted clarification so I could understand thank you both for answering

[Anxiousonehelp]

So it’s not a low risk it’s not theoretically risk it’s a no risk!?

[GuitarRox]

I'm pretty sure we were absolutely clear and we won't answer again because it feeds your ocd.