Do I have hiv, what was my risk?

[muses]

7 days ago I went to planned parenthood to get a rapid test done, when she pricked my finger she gave me a cotton ball to put on my finger because it was bleeding. As she was handing me the cotton ball I saw that there was blood on one side of it, I didn't have a problem with it because I assumed that it was my blood, so I used the other side to hold my finger. The problem is, is that I cant remember if she had wiped my finger before; resulting in blood being on the cotton ball. Now I'm being paranoid and I'm thinking what if it was someone elses blood. What is my risk of getting hiv if the blood on the cotton ball was from an hiv + person and i applied it directly on the prick on my finger?

[handyman705]

Even if. The amount of contaminated blood and location of receptor cells precludes even a theoretical scenario for transmission.
You did not have a risk!
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[muses]

Ok thank you for answering. So even if it was hiv+ blood on the cotton ball and i placed it on the finger with the prick from the needle on it hiv wouldn't of entered my blood stream?

[HowardH]

Zero risk for sure. In the entire history of HIV/AIDS, probably nobody anywhere in the world has ever been infected through use of a disposable fingerstick lancet or any other event like you describe. Certainly it has never happend in the US or other industrialized country.

[handyman705]

Your HIV risk was essentially zero.