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Potential needle prick
Before everything i need to mention that i have extreme ocd and anxiety.
So i was raking leaves yesterday at a temple and them leaves had thrones in them. I picked a pile of them leaves and put all that in a garbage bin and while i was doing that something pricked me in my finger, i looked and saw some thrones were there. After a few minutes my anxieties set in and i am worried if there was a discarded needle in that pile i failed to notice. I definitely didnt see any plunger or needle assembly but what if there was a discarded needle which penetrated my skin? Do i need testing? It did bleed a little. Am crying out of fear. My psychologist said to not worry but i need to know what experts here think.
So i was raking leaves yesterday at a temple and them leaves had thrones in them. I picked a pile of them leaves and put all that in a garbage bin and while i was doing that something pricked me in my finger, i looked and saw some thrones were there. After a few minutes my anxieties set in and i am worried if there was a discarded needle in that pile i failed to notice. I definitely didnt see any plunger or needle assembly but what if there was a discarded needle which penetrated my skin? Do i need testing? It did bleed a little. Am crying out of fear. My psychologist said to not worry but i need to know what experts here think.
Your question has been answered on this and your other threads. We wish you well.
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You have posted before and even answered other's posts so you have already read the answer before. Here it is again.
Your situation involves personal contact with an object in air (imaginary needle prick, thorns (even a real needle prick is not a risk but you know that didn't happen) etc. which is not a risk for hiv.). No hiv worries, 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. Next time you wonder if you had a risk, ask yourself if you did any of the 3, then after you say "Nope, I didn't" then it's time to move on back to your happy life.
Your situation involves personal contact with an object in air (imaginary needle prick, thorns (even a real needle prick is not a risk but you know that didn't happen) etc. which is not a risk for hiv.). No hiv worries, 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. Next time you wonder if you had a risk, ask yourself if you did any of the 3, then after you say "Nope, I didn't" then it's time to move on back to your happy life.
I am waiting anxiously for your response. Am i safe? Do i need testing?
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