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Need help in surviving window period !!

I have had high exposure recently of blood borne diseases, two days back precisely. I have to wait for 6 months for hcv and HIV test.how do i calmly go through 6 month waiting time? I am keeping six months for accurate results of both.
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I doubt less on nurse and more on syringe and needle used. I bought it from the store and I remember clearly that it did not had anything written on its cover like expiry date or bar code. Please don't say this did not happen. Because it did. I was looking for some proper name on it but I somehow got self convinced that she took it out of the box may be syringes in big box had this kind of packing.
This was my first time buying a syringe or needle. I was not aware of it  until I Googled syringe images. While buying it I asked the girl in the store if that's the best syringe she had. I heared in news that repackaged needles and syringes selling is very common here. That's the reason I am worried for hcv or hbv.because it's more common and hard to die virus. I read HIV is more fragile. I am having severe nausea and vomiting now.
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Tetanus vaccine in South Asia. Fought with nurse to wear gloves then got it on bum.she was not ready to give it on arms. I doubt all procedures that was done on me.
Now having nausea a lot. I am doubting hbv or hcv. I just want to get tested and be over with it.
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It is abnormal to doubt all procedures, especially since you have no medical training.
You had no exposure. Nurses don't inject HIV or any other disease into you. Consider therapy for your HIV phobia, because you will likely doubt the test results anyway and continue fearing that you have a disease. Therapy might get to the root of your phobia.
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What kind of "high exposure"?
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