I hope this is only HIV phobia

[sweetbod200]

Dear Doctors
I hope I'm not mentally been effected and starting to deal HIV phobia, their for I need your help,

In summery,  two weeks ago I was invited for a dinner to one of the restaurants, they booked a table for us and I their was a invisible peace of glas on the table after the dinner ( nearly one hour) the tinny small broken peace of glas pricked me.

I spoke to a doctor and he told me don't worry about it because if there was a virus on that broken glas it will die after 20 minutes and we took more than that time to finish our dinner and then I got pricked by that glass.

Secondly, yesterday I was thinking about ARS and I read in the net about lymph nodes so I went to a doctor to chick if I got any nodes, he noticed only one on my nick.


My questions:

1- is this true 20 min, is enough for the HIV virus to die?
2- Is this one Lymph node the start and f other lymph nodes which will follow in a few  coming days ? plus my temp. is 36.5 - 37 for the last two days no fever ?
3- my doctor did HIV Elisa test and came Negative as I asked him to do the test.  

[sweetbod200]

Thanks a lot Doctor

[H. Hunter Handsfield, M.D.]

The answers to your additional questions are obvious from my reply above.  It is not possible you caught HIV from the exposure you describe.  Therefore, whatever health events occur in your life cannot be due to HIV from this event.  That means your lymph node cannot be due to HIV. And if I were in your situation, I would of course continue unprotected sex with my wife.

That's all for this thread.

[sweetbod200]

Dear Doctor, to add on this I'm married with 2 kids, and honestly I didn't have sex with my wife since the event,  is it safe to go back to my normal life again as I'm worried about my wife.

[sweetbod200]

Dear Doctor,

Thanks for your answer but about the enlarged lymph node the doctor confirmed to me i got only one yesterday and came to the normal size today, should I be sure their are no more Nodes will follow? as you said HIV causes multiple prominent lymph node enlargements body-wide so they should come together in the same day please clarify?

Thank you

[H. Hunter Handsfield, M.D.]

Welcome to the HIV forum.  Indeed your anxieties are running way ahead of the real risks here.  There is no chance you caught HIV.  There has simply never been a case of HIV, anywhere in the world, caught in the way you describe.  It doesn't happen.

1) Yes, the virus dies that quickly.  And the chance that the glass had been contaminated with HIV infected blood is just about zero anyway.

2) Everybody has the occasional enlarged lymph node here and there.  ARS doesn't cause only a single node to enlarge; it causes multiple prominent lymph node enlargements body-wide.

3) You didn't need testing at all after this sort of event.  However, it was done too early to mean anything.  The test sometimes is positive after only 2 weeks, but sometimes it take up to 6 weeks to become positive.  But I recommend you just put this event behind you and not get further testing.  You're not likely to be the first person in history to catch HIV in this way.

Regards--  HHH, MD