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renumerating about the years between 2005-2009
I have only posted two questions in here in my first question I stated that I came in contact with an HIV positive persons vomit. This person was an in law of sorts and at the end (of living with him, he is still alive)
him and I did not get a long. He was often mad at me and mad at everyone his brother who was my friend. my question is i phone the vancouver aids helpline and asked if i was at risk of getting hiv by living with someone and they said if i had a cut and he had a cut the there is a risk. now i dont recall ever being in a situation where i saw him actively bleeding but he like most people had cuts and sores and now i am thinking about times when he might have had cuts or bodily fluids about and i might have hugged him or kissed his cheek or came in contact with bodily fluids.
Then my minds starts to race about when we werent on good terms ( i mean the guy hated me) but i kept my tooth brush and stuff in the bathroom, razor--i know this is sounding anxiety driven but pleas hear me out--and please answer.
Knowing that he is HIV positive (although heis on ART--and has been now for close to 10 years and has been hiv positive for 20 (the dr susoected that he had had HIV for about ten years by the time he had gotten diagnosed)
Now the man is a gay man, and I am a woman, so there was no sexual contact going on, there was no needle sharing ( i dont do drugs)
The most that was eer done was he lit a cigaratte for me, or took a sip of my drink---these are casual contacts rught no risk for transmission.
The reason I am posting again is because I am seeing a mental health professional and I told her about the recent obsession i had had over HIV and contracting it. --she asked me if i have ever been tested nd i said no because I have never had an "exposure" from what i understood exposure to be---she said for my own sanity that I should get tested, and tested once and then keep the paper. So I ballsed up yesterday and went and had a full panel of stds done.--- two weeks before i get the results and now I am crapping my thinking about all the ways i might have come in contact with the relatives bodily secretions.
DR HHH has said in a post not to me but to others that people need to learn the truths about HIV risks that if you never have unprotected vaginal or anal sex, and never share injection equipment then you have no risk of getting HIV.
Get this straight Nobody ever gets HIV from the envrioment or from day to day activtives or contact with other people---only by sex and and needle sharing etc. in the 25 + history of the AIDS epidemic no household members of hiv infected people ever caught the virus (if they weret also sex or drug partners) despite years of sharing kitchens bathrooms eating utensls--in other wosrds avoiding HIV is a simple matter of sexual and drug use safety--nothing more than that.
Does it make any difference that I was not aware of the fact that this man was HIV postive when I first started to live with him --or he with us rather? I am just thinking off all the times like what if he had pcp thrush and shared a drink with me--a patient with pcp thrush has HIV in saliva or higher amounts of hiv in their saliva.
and then when he began to have a hate on for me i am now think what if he sabotaged my razor or tooth brush.
i understand this sounds foolish but since taking the test I am sh&tbaked that it might be positive because I lived with a gay positive man.
when talking with my dr toady--he said to me that HIV is not that easy to transmit even with sex-- and any interaction i would have had with this individual would have been daily casual activties--cooking together, shaking hands, when we were on good terms the odd hug and a kiss on the cheek.
But these are the theoretical risks that the CDC says there are for people living with HIV positive people--right?
And when you look at the statistics for the provinces there are quite a few that dont list an exposure--so is it to assume that they could have been exposed to infected bodily fluid in the enviroment like being puked on, or someone having a profusive nosebleed and you hand then a tissue and the bloody hand touches your hand or nose or eyes.
the problem is that not all drs are educated to the same extent--so there is a lot of misinformation out there and you dont know what to believe.
I just need some reassurance while I wait me test results--
Please dont hate on me.
him and I did not get a long. He was often mad at me and mad at everyone his brother who was my friend. my question is i phone the vancouver aids helpline and asked if i was at risk of getting hiv by living with someone and they said if i had a cut and he had a cut the there is a risk. now i dont recall ever being in a situation where i saw him actively bleeding but he like most people had cuts and sores and now i am thinking about times when he might have had cuts or bodily fluids about and i might have hugged him or kissed his cheek or came in contact with bodily fluids.
Then my minds starts to race about when we werent on good terms ( i mean the guy hated me) but i kept my tooth brush and stuff in the bathroom, razor--i know this is sounding anxiety driven but pleas hear me out--and please answer.
Knowing that he is HIV positive (although heis on ART--and has been now for close to 10 years and has been hiv positive for 20 (the dr susoected that he had had HIV for about ten years by the time he had gotten diagnosed)
Now the man is a gay man, and I am a woman, so there was no sexual contact going on, there was no needle sharing ( i dont do drugs)
The most that was eer done was he lit a cigaratte for me, or took a sip of my drink---these are casual contacts rught no risk for transmission.
The reason I am posting again is because I am seeing a mental health professional and I told her about the recent obsession i had had over HIV and contracting it. --she asked me if i have ever been tested nd i said no because I have never had an "exposure" from what i understood exposure to be---she said for my own sanity that I should get tested, and tested once and then keep the paper. So I ballsed up yesterday and went and had a full panel of stds done.--- two weeks before i get the results and now I am crapping my thinking about all the ways i might have come in contact with the relatives bodily secretions.
DR HHH has said in a post not to me but to others that people need to learn the truths about HIV risks that if you never have unprotected vaginal or anal sex, and never share injection equipment then you have no risk of getting HIV.
Get this straight Nobody ever gets HIV from the envrioment or from day to day activtives or contact with other people---only by sex and and needle sharing etc. in the 25 + history of the AIDS epidemic no household members of hiv infected people ever caught the virus (if they weret also sex or drug partners) despite years of sharing kitchens bathrooms eating utensls--in other wosrds avoiding HIV is a simple matter of sexual and drug use safety--nothing more than that.
Does it make any difference that I was not aware of the fact that this man was HIV postive when I first started to live with him --or he with us rather? I am just thinking off all the times like what if he had pcp thrush and shared a drink with me--a patient with pcp thrush has HIV in saliva or higher amounts of hiv in their saliva.
and then when he began to have a hate on for me i am now think what if he sabotaged my razor or tooth brush.
i understand this sounds foolish but since taking the test I am sh&tbaked that it might be positive because I lived with a gay positive man.
when talking with my dr toady--he said to me that HIV is not that easy to transmit even with sex-- and any interaction i would have had with this individual would have been daily casual activties--cooking together, shaking hands, when we were on good terms the odd hug and a kiss on the cheek.
But these are the theoretical risks that the CDC says there are for people living with HIV positive people--right?
And when you look at the statistics for the provinces there are quite a few that dont list an exposure--so is it to assume that they could have been exposed to infected bodily fluid in the enviroment like being puked on, or someone having a profusive nosebleed and you hand then a tissue and the bloody hand touches your hand or nose or eyes.
the problem is that not all drs are educated to the same extent--so there is a lot of misinformation out there and you dont know what to believe.
I just need some reassurance while I wait me test results--
Please dont hate on me.
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precisely controlled and limited laboratory conditions, CDC studies have shown that drying of even these high concentrations of HIV reduces the amount of infectious virus by 90 to 99 percent within several hours. Since the HIV concentrations used in laboratory studies are much higher than those actually found in blood or other specimens, drying of HIV-infected human blood or other body fluids reduces the theoretical risk of environmental transmission to that which has been observed--essentially zero. Incorrect interpretation of conclusions drawn from laboratory studies have unnecessarily alarmed some people.
Results from laboratory studies should not be used to assess specific personal risk of infection because (1) the amount of virus studied is not found in human specimens or elsewhere in nature, and (2) no one has been identified as infected with HIV due to contact with an environmental surface. Additionally, HIV is unable to reproduce outside its living host (unlike many bacteria or fungi, which may do so under suitable conditions), except under laboratory conditions, therefore, it does not spread or maintain infectiousness outside its host.
Households
Although HIV has been transmitted between family members in a household setting, this type of transmission is very rare. These transmissions are believed to have resulted from contact between skin or mucous membranes and infected blood. To prevent even such rare occurrences, precautions should be taken in all settings, including the home, to prevent exposures to the blood of persons who are HIV infected, at risk for HIV infection, or whose infection and risk status are unknown. For example,
• Gloves should be worn during contact with blood or other body fluids that could possibly contain visible blood, such as urine, faeces, or vomit.
• Cuts, sores, or breaks on both the care giver’s and patient’s exposed skin should be covered with bandages.
• Hands and other parts of the body should be washed immediately after contact with blood or other infectious body fluids, and surfaces soiled with blood or other infectious body fluids should be disinfected appropriately.
• Practices that increase the likelihood of blood contact, such as sharing of razors and toothbrushes, should be avoided.
• Needles and other sharp instruments should be used only when medically necessary and handled according to recommendations for health-care settings. (Do not put caps back on needles by hand or remove needles from syringes; dispose of needles in puncture-proof containers; use needles only once or properly sterilize before re-use.)
This is from the CDC--they say environmental transmission is zero--yet they put that vomit could cause transmission. They list cuts as a route of transmission--- when speaking with a blood draw person---she mentioned capillary vessels or something and these vessels are exposed whenever there is a cut--so everyone is hooped?
Results from laboratory studies should not be used to assess specific personal risk of infection because (1) the amount of virus studied is not found in human specimens or elsewhere in nature, and (2) no one has been identified as infected with HIV due to contact with an environmental surface. Additionally, HIV is unable to reproduce outside its living host (unlike many bacteria or fungi, which may do so under suitable conditions), except under laboratory conditions, therefore, it does not spread or maintain infectiousness outside its host.
Households
Although HIV has been transmitted between family members in a household setting, this type of transmission is very rare. These transmissions are believed to have resulted from contact between skin or mucous membranes and infected blood. To prevent even such rare occurrences, precautions should be taken in all settings, including the home, to prevent exposures to the blood of persons who are HIV infected, at risk for HIV infection, or whose infection and risk status are unknown. For example,
• Gloves should be worn during contact with blood or other body fluids that could possibly contain visible blood, such as urine, faeces, or vomit.
• Cuts, sores, or breaks on both the care giver’s and patient’s exposed skin should be covered with bandages.
• Hands and other parts of the body should be washed immediately after contact with blood or other infectious body fluids, and surfaces soiled with blood or other infectious body fluids should be disinfected appropriately.
• Practices that increase the likelihood of blood contact, such as sharing of razors and toothbrushes, should be avoided.
• Needles and other sharp instruments should be used only when medically necessary and handled according to recommendations for health-care settings. (Do not put caps back on needles by hand or remove needles from syringes; dispose of needles in puncture-proof containers; use needles only once or properly sterilize before re-use.)
This is from the CDC--they say environmental transmission is zero--yet they put that vomit could cause transmission. They list cuts as a route of transmission--- when speaking with a blood draw person---she mentioned capillary vessels or something and these vessels are exposed whenever there is a cut--so everyone is hooped?
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