Cannot Sleep-HIV-Dr. HHH

[Luis58]

Dear Dr. HHH,

I am very worred and cannot sleep.  This has completely been affecting my life the last 2 days.  Your help is greatly appreciated and I appreciate your time.

I got a massage from a girl in a parlor (no sex and she didn't try).  She massaged me very rough (i think she just wanted to get it over with).  I noticed that she HAD A CUT on her hand after when I was shaking it.  I don't think it was a fresh cut, but I couldn't tell.

After seeing this I made sure to check my body for any cuts or openings just to be safe.  I noticed that I had a mosquito bite that I had scratched too much that scabbed over a few hours before the massage.  IT HAD A SCAB BEFORE THE MASSAGE THAT IS!

She massaged me so hard that she took THE SCAB OFF AND IT WAS BLEEDING SLIGHTLY.  I COMPLETELY LOST IT, started shaking, sweating, I had an anxiety attack.

I am so scarred

1. I Could I have gotten infected if she had HIV and her cut touched the scabbless, BLEEDING opening?
2. The lessons say I need to wait 13 weeks to test.  I can't wait that long are there any other alternatives?  
3. How much risk did I have?
4. Do I even need a test for this one incident?
5. Is it safe to have sex with Pregnant wife?

[H. Hunter Handsfield, M.D.]

Relax; you are badly overreacting.  Nobody ever gets HIV by hand-to-genital contact, regardless of how vigorous and regardless of cuts or lesions on the penis.  You do not neet HIV testing on account of this event.  As far as sex with your pregnant wife goes, there is zero risk of HIV transmission from this event.

You don't say where on your body the mosquito bite was.  If it was on your penis, I am skeptical it was a bite; by far the most common cause of scabbed lesions on the penis is herpes.  If that's where the lesion was, you should get that checked out before you have sex again with your pregnant wife.  But if it really was a mosquito bite on some other body part, don't worry about it.

Good luck--    HHH, MD

[who_is_this]

No risk.  No worries.  You simply can't catch HIV like that.  Anxiety and perhaps guilt are perhaps overwhelming you.  You can't contract HIV like that or it would be a very common disease.

[Luis58]

Dr. HHH,

Just to clarify, the mosquito bite was on my ankle.  There was no genital contact or any sexual contact for that matter.  It was just a normal massage.

There was a scab on the mosquito bite and she rubbed the scab off and it started bleeding.

I am concerned that she may have had a cut on her hand and if it opened during the massage could blood from her hand infected me throught the bleeding open scabbless bite.

1. Still no risk?
2. Still no test?

Thank you for answering on the 4th by the way.  That is above and beyond the call of duty.

[worried in toronto]

Luis,

You are jumping at straws. There is absolutely no way you transmitted HIV from the incidents you described (as the good doc said, you are badly overreacting).

If handjobs and massage don't transmit HIV in the medical world's opinion, then they don't. Think about it, i bet there have been over 2 billion handjobs given in the past day.

Hope you feel better man.

roger

[Luis58]

Dr. HHH,

Just to clarify, the mosquito bite was on my ankle. There was no genital contact or any sexual contact for that matter. It was just a normal massage.

There was a scab on the mosquito bite and she rubbed the scab off and it started bleeding.

I am concerned that she may have had a cut on her hand and if it opened during the massage could blood from her hand infected me throught the bleeding open scabbless bite.

1. Still no risk?
2. Still no test?

Thank you for answering on the 4th by the way. That is above and beyond the call of duty.

[monkeyflower]

Not the doctor, but while you wait for his reply I can assure you that contracting HIV in this way is impossible. Certainly not worthy of any further concern or testing.

[Luis58]

Hi Monkey,

Thank you for your reply. I am just not sure that the doctor understood my initial post.  I made it seem like their was hand to genital contact and there was none.  I am wondering if that changes his response to the HIV risk.

Dr. HHH, Just to clarify,

1. No sexual, no Genital, contact
2. got a massage on the ankle where a scab was ripped off and started bleeding.
3. girl had cut on her hand (I am not sure if it was fresh)
4. massaged cut hand over scabbless ankle mosquito bite area.

Still no test, no risk?  Impossible for HIV?

Thank you, DR. HHH I will patiently await your reply.

[Luis58]

Dr. HHH, Just to clarify,

1. No sexual, no Genital, contact
2. got a massage on the ankle where a scab was ripped off and started bleeding.
3. girl had cut on her hand (I am not sure if it was fresh)
4. massaged cut hand over scabbless ankle mosquito bite area.

Still no test, no risk? Impossible for HIV?

Thank you, DR. HHH I will patiently await your reply.

[H. Hunter Handsfield, M.D.]

Monkeyflower is right.  HIV is sexually transmitted.  You didn't have sex.  End of story.

HHH, MD

[Luis58]

Thank you all for your help.

be well,

[Orangechicken]

I've read on this forum that if a cut is not bleeding that it is closed to HIV. Do you support that statement?