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Hi
I hope you are doing good.
Recently i went to a lab and i had to take a vitamin D level test, when i was giving my sample i was not looking at phelbomist, the only part i remember is she removed plastic cap from needle, but what worries me after this i got fever after 10 days.
Now i am really worried if needle was not sterilised.
please can you guide and help please.

thank you
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"i had all symptoms fever cough and white tongue, but everyone was sick in family." You make no sense. If they were all sick it wasn't from hiv - yet this worries you that it is hiv too. Since you had no risk you weren't sick from hiv either. You probably all got Covid or flu or food poisoning or other disease.
Seek therapy for your anxiety which is becoming a bit of a mental health problem when you turn a family sickness into an imaginary hiv infection in you and an imaginary epidemic of hiv in your family.
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please one last question if someone had ars symtoms would they test reactive before 28 days or they wont till 4 weeks.
You have no medical training so you should realize that a self-diagnosis of ARS has zero credibility.
You should at this point in the discussion realize that you are coming up with illogical thoughts. A nurse that gives you (and thousands of others) hiv but no one at her clinic notices - how silly!
Seek mental help therapy because you are so anxious that your brain is sort of mixed up.
sort of mixed up... but a therapist can probably get you back to thinking normally.
so blood draw is not a risk and no testing required?
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Seek therapy.
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Please see a counselor for your irrational fear, there was no risk associated. Paramedical staff are trained to take care of your health and safety, there is no reason for you to believe that someone would intentionally jeopardise your health.
No risk. Testing is not recommended.
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mike thank you for reply.
please one last question if someone had ars symtoms would they test reactive before 28 days or they wont till 4 weeks.
it was Ag/Ab I and II test taken at 26 days. It was non reactive.
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I don't think I or any one can help you here by answering questions that are anxiety driven. We strongly recommend you seeing a psychologist in person to discuss about the irrational fear you have developed from the described event.
because i was sick and test taken was not at a developed country.
because i was sick and test taken was not at a developed country.
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If you are that worried about having blood drawn that you think the medical people who do this all day long don't really know how to do their jobs, then next time tell them in advance so they can show you what they do. You can't get hiv unless a hollow needle was used to share and inject so move on from that idea.
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please one last question
i had all symtoms fever cough and white tongue, but everyone was sick in family.
so after this incident i took Ag/Ab I and II test.
will be this test be reactive if those symtoms were from hiv?
because i took test at 26 days.
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