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Last week I had received a negative antibody test at a clinic in Manhattan NYC. The woman who provided me the test it turns out was HIV Positive which she told me at the end of our session as I was leaving. The problem is that during my time at the clinic I shook her hand and gave her a hug before I knew she was HIV+. She was wearing a tank top and her arms were exposed. On my hand I had 3 one week old blisters from doing yard work which were partially healed and partially scabbed. They were not bleeding. Also on the same hand I have a wart that looks something like this: http://z.hubpages.com/u/1003860_f520.jpg (any information on HIV transmission through warts?). I have no recollection of seeing any sort of cuts or wounds or blood on her hands or body (but she might have) and dont remember seeing any blood on mine after our interaction but my were not in the best shape. Please any advice and assessment of risk would be great as Im having trouble sleeping. Thank you so much.
"But there are many factors that could make hugging a risk"
No, there absolutely are NOT. Hugging is not a risk, period, unless perhaps you are hugging someone who just had their arm amputated at the same time YOU did and you hemorrhage on one another. That would be about the only "blood to blood" scenario that would possibly pose a risk. Of course, all of this info is already readily available on the HIV forums...as well as on a journal I wrote.
Read the hundreds of posts both in the HIV Community forum, as well as the expert (MD) forum where you will better educate yourself. Serodiscordant couples live together all the time...hugging, kissing, sharing bathrooms, dishes, etc...and not one non-infected person becomes positive.
Risks for HIV include ONLY the following: UNPROTECTED vaginal or anal sex, sharing drug works, and via mother to infant.
You came to the anxiety forum to address your anxiety, not to debate your non-risk for HIV. You can get a lot of valuable info on how to harness your anxiety on this forum...it would only make sense to use it.
No, there absolutely are NOT. Hugging is not a risk, period, unless perhaps you are hugging someone who just had their arm amputated at the same time YOU did and you hemorrhage on one another. That would be about the only "blood to blood" scenario that would possibly pose a risk. Of course, all of this info is already readily available on the HIV forums...as well as on a journal I wrote.
Read the hundreds of posts both in the HIV Community forum, as well as the expert (MD) forum where you will better educate yourself. Serodiscordant couples live together all the time...hugging, kissing, sharing bathrooms, dishes, etc...and not one non-infected person becomes positive.
Risks for HIV include ONLY the following: UNPROTECTED vaginal or anal sex, sharing drug works, and via mother to infant.
You came to the anxiety forum to address your anxiety, not to debate your non-risk for HIV. You can get a lot of valuable info on how to harness your anxiety on this forum...it would only make sense to use it.
But there are many factors that could make hugging a risk, cuts and other nicks on the skin, also Im a nailbiter so my nails and cuticles are all messed up. Also may have rubbed my eyes after touching her..
HIV is not transmitted via hugging...even if she had had a small cut. You do not have HIV. Time to start addressing your anxiety, which is what plagues you.
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