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Very concerned: potential HIV exposure?

I normally do not hook up with men, but I was curious lately and I had an experience with another man. Full disclosure: man says he is "100% negative" but I know he has lied about other things in the past.

That being said, I am very nervous.

I was jerking his penis tonight (Mar. 24) and he asked me to lick his balls, so I did.
As I did this, he ejaculated and I felt what I thought was a tiny droplet of semen or seminal fluid hit right at the corner of my eyelid. I didn't feel any hit my eyeball itself, just the edge of my eyelid.

I took my shirt and wiped the tiny droplet in the direction away from my eye, then I drove home and washed my eye out with eye drops just to be sure.

My concern is possible exposure of mucus membranes in the lining of the eyelid. Can anyone here possibly advise on my chances and what -- if anything -- I should do?

Do I need to be tested?
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3191940 tn?1717500602
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No, there's absolutely no reason to be tested for an incident like this.  The only sexual concern is having unprotected, penetrative anal or vaginal sex.  A droplet of semen in the eye is of no concern.  There have only ever been a handful of healthcare workers infected via the eye in the past 40 years, and those exposures involved large quantities of bodily fluid.
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Thank You!  I don't know why I am s worried?

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