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Worried of hiv transmission from massage
Hi, im very worried of HIV infection as i had a massage from a gay massuer last night, he rubbed my back very hard and i felt that he had scratched my body few times. After the massage, i went for shower and noticed stinging sensation when the water ran through my back, i checked my back from the mirror and noticed some bruising parts and red marks might caused by capillary breakage due to the intensive rubbing. I had some acnes on my back too. I am now worried about infection of HIV as i did not see whether the massuer had any cuts or blood on his hand. If he is an HIV+ and did not realize his own status and what is the risk of me being affected as he rubbed and damage my skin (from the stinging sensation during shower)? Does the rough rubbing increases the risk of infection if his hands were bleeding and my skin were hurts but his intensity of rubbing?
Your situation involves personal contact with an object in air ( hands, maybe saliva if he accidentally drooled, maybe blood if he had a cut 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, neither of which you did and you didn't share hollow needles to inject with which is the only other way to acquire 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.
This same advice applies to your foot warts fear on your other thread - there are only 3 ways and because foot warts don't involve penetrating vaginal or anal nor is a hollow needle used, you need to move on instead of doing an hiv transmission analysis investigating the 1,000s of everyday activities you do.
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.
This same advice applies to your foot warts fear on your other thread - there are only 3 ways and because foot warts don't involve penetrating vaginal or anal nor is a hollow needle used, you need to move on instead of doing an hiv transmission analysis investigating the 1,000s of everyday activities you do.
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Thank you so much for the advice, will try to move on without over thinking too much
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