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Dumb Mistake

My back hurted this past Saturday, so I decided to to a message parlor. I live in Los Angeles and went to a message parlor there the person that gave me the message said she was Korean and 36 years old.

The problem is that before I went over there I scratched a pimple in my upper back. It made a small about 2 millimeter diameter "cut" "wound "scratch" or what ever you want to call it. I had two shirts on my white under shirt and a thick blue shirt.

When I got to the message room, I took my clothes off, except underwear. I placed my white t shirt in the bed so my underwear would not touch the towel that was laying in the mat.

She went to the next room and brought a bottle of oil. She brought the bottle of oil with her hand, forgot which. She poured oil in her hands and rubbed her hands together. She then placed her hands on my mid back and proceeded upward where my wound was located in my upper back. She was moving up to my upper back while pressing on my back. I remembered my would so I told her not the upper back. She massage my lower back and buttocks area. There was NO SEX Of any kind.

When she finished an hour later, I put my blue shirt on and carried my white shirt. When I got home I saw that my white shirt had blood where my wound was. That means I bled. I don't know if when I had white it prevent healing process of skin. It was some minutes before self injury by scratching pimple and massage.

I am afraid that if she had sex with a previous customer immediately before giving me my massage to me and touching my wound she could have passed HIV to me. Or if a couple used the bottle from the room where she got it and it had semen or vaginal fluids on the outside bottle from being touched with other couples hands and then her handling the bottle then touching my wound as described above that could have infected me.

I remember my friend got a hand job from that place about two years ago. She might have been working at that time ago. I am not sure if she has sex with customers or not. I am afraid she had fresh body fluids like semen, vaginal or even blood on hands from an immidiate customer before me or when she got the bottle of oil from the next room it had fresh vagina, semen or even blood on the outside of bottle, and touched by her hand then my wound as described above.

This happened this past Saturday. I had some pimples in my back on Saturday.  Now I see them in arms. I hope that is not a rash.

What is risk.  
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480448 tn?1426948538
Yes, I read your whole post and all the replies.  You popped a pimple, it bled, it was a little open boo boo.  Even a large actively bleeding cut would still pose no risk.  You're not understanding how infection needs to happen.  It doesn't happen like that.
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Did you read my whole post? It was not just an open pimple nursegil! I scratched minutes before I went in to the place. The cut/scratch/wound bled. Since it is a massage place. Infectiouns fluids as described above are more probable. Please help.
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480448 tn?1426948538
NO risk, none, zero.  You aren't reading the replies.

You can NOT get HIV in this manner.  Even if she had HIV+ blood, semen or other fluid on her hand and she touched your open pimple.

It is impossible.

Move on with your life.
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Re Read what you have been told over and over above, This will not change

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.

Kindly Move Along...
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Even if there was blood in her hands from a wound in her hands or when she touched the bottle of oil (girl from next room used bottle and had menstrual blood) OR semen / vaginal /cervical fluid In my masseuses hands  Then put on my fresh cut/wound/scratch that has not time to heal.

I read HIV does not survive outside the body long, but how about outside the body but inside a human blood cell?

I am concerned my scratch my self before I went in the place (minutes).

I believe I played Russian roulette my doctor said. I am worried I had my winter illnesses already.  
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Your risk is non exsistant.

  If HIV was contagous in this way there whole world would have HIV. like the flu.

You could literally dive into a pool of HIV positve blood and go for a swim and even then your ris is low.

Try to relax. Get a negative test. And take care of yourself really. you are fine.
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186166 tn?1385259382
yes i READ your post

no, it has NOTHING to do with ars/hiv.
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Did you read my whole thread? Or are you by what other people said?

The reason why I am concerned is that I developed symptoms about a week after incident, which includes a swollen node on right side in the back of throat. Some weird symptoms as well. The worst part I already went through my winter illness so I am think this has something to do with ars/HIV. Please respond.
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Wow teak, I am glad you read my whole thread. Thanks.
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Yes move on, you never had a risk.
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Did anybody read my first and last post. Please.
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I am sorry. I meant to ask if you read my original/first  post above.

I don't know if my cut/scratch in pimple is classified as a deep cut or minor. I am HIV infected fluids infected me by being masseuses hands she had a sexual encounter with a customer or after she brought the oil bottle and a couple In next room touched and put infectious fluids outside bottle where masseuse handled it.

I had a white t shirt after cut/scratch and took it off before massage. I did not put it on afterwards. I saw blood stains on it. So I was bleeding on it. I am wondering if having t shirt on be massage stopped the healing process of a fresh wound. And making me more likely to get infected.

She massage my back with her hands ( no gloves) if she had infectious fluids in hands and  massaged me pressing on wound would I be infected????? I do not know if you read original post that is why ask! Thanks a million.
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Did you read my reply? You had no exposure.
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Yeah I do not do any of those things. Just massage. I guess I am having trouble considering it as normal contact.

I guess I just imagine her having small amounts of vaginal/ semen in hands then rubbing it in my back and over my wound and getting that way. Her getting it from prevoius customer or outside bottle after someone else touched it.

Teak did you read my previous post?
How fast does a wound begin to heal?
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Unless you had unprotected penerative vaginal or anal sex or shared iv drug works with her then you never had a risk-you can,t acquire the hiv virus the way your suggesting, it just doesn,t happen.
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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.

YOU NEVER HAD A RISK.
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I believe the cut/scratch was deep.

I am afraid that if she had sex with a previous customer immediately before giving me my massage to me and touching my wound she could have passed HIV to me. Or if a couple used the bottle from the room where she got it and it had semen or vaginal fluids on the outside bottle from being touched with other couples hands and then her handling the bottle then touching my wound as described above that could have infected me.

It was fresh cut/scratch in pimple. Plus wearing shirt may have touched wound and impacted it's healing, and making me vulnerable to infection.
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Hiv transmission occurs inside the body not outside and clearly that never happened in your case."There was no sex of any kind"Your words not ours.Your safe.
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u never had a risk move on
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