Did i get poked by a needle at a gas pump or is it just my anxiety getting the best of me.

[soscared73]

First let me start out by saying that i have OCD and bad anxiety about HIV. I read somewhere before of the cdc website about people finding needles on gas pumps and movie seats and stuff and ever since i read that i dont like going to the movies or getting gas. Everytime i get gas i always sit there and look and investigate the pump before i touch it. Yesterday i went to get some gas and it was no different i think i look at it before i grabbed it and then i started to get the gas but then my phone rang and so i was talking on the phone and not paying attention to what i was doing and then i may have grabbed the pump and shook it real good to get all the gas out. well i got in my car and drove home and i was still on the phone and i could remember smelling gas cause im sure i got some on my hands and i also remember as i was driving home how could i grab the pump like that. Well i got home to wash my hands and then i noticed a little mark on my pinky on my left hand. Im right handed and i always use my right hand so im not even sure if i used my left hand at all but i was on the phone and i answered the phone with my right hand. Well the little mark scared me and now im scared it could have been a needle from the pump. The little mark may have been there already but i am not certain. It looks like a little red dot and if i squeeze it nothing comes out. It almost looks like it under the skin. Am i just associating my fears with the fact that i found a little mark on my finger after i got some gas or could this be an acutal mark from a needle poke. I keep telling myself that there would be no way that i could have gotten poked and then drive all the way home and then finding the mark, i would have known right away right. Please could i be at risk for HIV from this. I went back a few hours later and looked at the pump and it looked alright, there wasnt any needles or anything like that. please help me.

[soscared73]

so then your saying no risk

[alienshadow]

Thanks Chris my point exactly i have been on this forum a while now you can tell a fake when you read what they are posting

[alienshadow]

whatever i can make a medical field name up to that dosent mean i am in that profession

[medstudent145]

not nerve...just clinical experience and knowledge that exceeds the normal layman.

[alienshadow]

med student you have a nerve

[soscared73]

thanks, so do you thinks its even possible to have gotten poked and not realize it

[medstudent145]

"First let me start out by saying that i have OCD and bad anxiety about HIV"....you're letting your anxiety intrude upon your thoughts as well as your daily living. you know this is an irrational fear. you are not at any risk for HIV. even if you were poked by a needle, which you weren't HIV does not live long outside of the body. therefore, you are clear. but you def need to seek some counseling about your fears. they are entirely unwarranted for. the fact that you search CDC and you talk about these fears is even more diagnostic. HIV is def not your problem. either you need to talk to yourself and say i will not get HIV unless I put myself at risk such as unprotected sex or IV drug abuse OR you need to speak to someone. good luck! once you get ove this, life gets so much better....:)