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HIV/STDs from inserting someone else's used tampon applicator?
When I was a kid, I did something really stupid and took a used tampon applicator from a sanitary bin in a restaurant and put it into my own vagina. Is there any way I could have gotten something (but particularly HIV) from this? It would have been about 10 years ago.
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This community is just for HIV, nothing else. Y9u don'[t have HIV. See the STDs forum here: https://www.medhelp.org/forums/STDs---STIs/show/98
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So there was no risk of HIV?
Please re-read the advice given by GuitarRox. If you didn't do either of those activities, you aren't at risk for HIV.
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