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HIV+ blood in my eye from patient
Hello everyone,
I am a dentist and last Friday, the 22nd, I was working on a patient who is HIV+. I had protective eyewear, but my carelessness, it was not securely placed over my eyes. I felt splashes of what was blood and saliva hit my eye and immediately rinsed it out. He had open cuts in his mouth. I disregarded prophylaxis because I read that this type of exposure has a 1 out of 1000 chance of transmission.
A few days later, I have been feeling unusually tired at work and at home. I spend most of the day craving sleep, when I am getting 8 hours everynight. At first I was nervous of what happened, but now I can clearly feel my body feeling different aside from that. My lymph nodes are slightly swollen.
I did get an antibody test for HIV two days later, but that won't show anything I'm assuming.
My questions are:
Has anyone out there had the same experience? Does the amout of blood and saliva dependent on risk for the eye?
Are these symptoms too early to deduce anything yet?
What would be the best test to detect HIV and how long would I have to wait?
Thanks.
I am a dentist and last Friday, the 22nd, I was working on a patient who is HIV+. I had protective eyewear, but my carelessness, it was not securely placed over my eyes. I felt splashes of what was blood and saliva hit my eye and immediately rinsed it out. He had open cuts in his mouth. I disregarded prophylaxis because I read that this type of exposure has a 1 out of 1000 chance of transmission.
A few days later, I have been feeling unusually tired at work and at home. I spend most of the day craving sleep, when I am getting 8 hours everynight. At first I was nervous of what happened, but now I can clearly feel my body feeling different aside from that. My lymph nodes are slightly swollen.
I did get an antibody test for HIV two days later, but that won't show anything I'm assuming.
My questions are:
Has anyone out there had the same experience? Does the amout of blood and saliva dependent on risk for the eye?
Are these symptoms too early to deduce anything yet?
What would be the best test to detect HIV and how long would I have to wait?
Thanks.
WOW!!! An unstable headed person like yourself is talking about stability issues. Again, that's whhat I call ironical. HIV is a serious disease and jokers like you have just taken the complexity of real issues out of perspective.
As far as time for reflection you mentioned in another of your sage advice to me, I got something to offer to you - You don'y you get a hump doll, fill up the plastic vagina with some honey and have condom protected sex with Let's see if the honey enters your goddamn urethra. Make sure do it infront of the mirror. That will give you a real reflection of issues.
Remember, keep walking......
As far as time for reflection you mentioned in another of your sage advice to me, I got something to offer to you - You don'y you get a hump doll, fill up the plastic vagina with some honey and have condom protected sex with Let's see if the honey enters your goddamn urethra. Make sure do it infront of the mirror. That will give you a real reflection of issues.
Remember, keep walking......
What's witht the language? Man you got some stability issues or something?
Weird..... you seem violent too?
Reg: "with regards to dentist they dont have sufficient information in school regarding communicable disieases,...."
The same could be said about my field, we don't get around blood too often, but it does happen. Especially with people that are on blood thining medications. In fact it happens so rarely essentially no one wears gloves, and virtually no one would know what PEP meds are about. I have maybe had 3 episodes of exposure via patient blood over 7 years. Only one of those 3 was there actually a puncture involved.... I didn't even report it, knowing what I know now... I would have done things differently.
Weird..... you seem violent too?
Reg: "with regards to dentist they dont have sufficient information in school regarding communicable disieases,...."
The same could be said about my field, we don't get around blood too often, but it does happen. Especially with people that are on blood thining medications. In fact it happens so rarely essentially no one wears gloves, and virtually no one would know what PEP meds are about. I have maybe had 3 episodes of exposure via patient blood over 7 years. Only one of those 3 was there actually a puncture involved.... I didn't even report it, knowing what I know now... I would have done things differently.
I do not go about advising ppl dumb ass. What ever I write is correct information and no misrepresentation of facts. I talk from my mouth and think from my head unlike you who talks n thinks out of his behind. You already said "Goodbye". Seems you don't know how to even stand by your words....Keep walking brother...
j_worried,
Thanks for your concern about my nuts.... They seem fine now, and I did get a positive result from the first test. I had a second test at a different facility on the following day, and it was negative.
I have taken the meds as instructed for a little over a week, had a 3rd test done, and I am waiting for the results. Hopefully it all came out neg.
Yes, I was concerned about HIV, due to the fact that so many folks say chlamydia can not be contracted via unprotected oral.... if that is the case then I had to have contracted it from a failed condom....
It aint like chlamydia just sneaks up from no where?! So yes I had fears, to say they were unfounded.... I don't see how that is 100% correct. After speaking to the doctors here, that literally laughed at me when I said that I have been told that you can not get chlamydia via oral, I felt some what better regarding condom failure.
So
j_worried if my advice is stupid.... which I am not saying it isn't how do we know when someone else posts "gems of emperically proven information." Heck j_worried, who are you for that matter? What makes you qualified, what makes your information, Teaks, or mine any better than the others?
In fact there is a disclaimer about this forum that the information is not to be considered medical advice.... So honestly, if one did take the information that is on this forum, from non medical individuals... as medical advice, wouldn't that in itself be "stupid?" Just a thought..... wouldn't even giving advice when your not even a health care provider in the first place be stupid? I mean, wouldn't that be like the blind leading the blind?
Like I said just some thoughts.
BTW, I don't think I am the perfect person to give advice, I just think I am a person. By wich doesn't that give me the right to post here.... or do I have to have a merrit badge, or HIV etc before I can post?
Thanks for your concern about my nuts.... They seem fine now, and I did get a positive result from the first test. I had a second test at a different facility on the following day, and it was negative.
I have taken the meds as instructed for a little over a week, had a 3rd test done, and I am waiting for the results. Hopefully it all came out neg.
Yes, I was concerned about HIV, due to the fact that so many folks say chlamydia can not be contracted via unprotected oral.... if that is the case then I had to have contracted it from a failed condom....
It aint like chlamydia just sneaks up from no where?! So yes I had fears, to say they were unfounded.... I don't see how that is 100% correct. After speaking to the doctors here, that literally laughed at me when I said that I have been told that you can not get chlamydia via oral, I felt some what better regarding condom failure.
So
j_worried if my advice is stupid.... which I am not saying it isn't how do we know when someone else posts "gems of emperically proven information." Heck j_worried, who are you for that matter? What makes you qualified, what makes your information, Teaks, or mine any better than the others?
In fact there is a disclaimer about this forum that the information is not to be considered medical advice.... So honestly, if one did take the information that is on this forum, from non medical individuals... as medical advice, wouldn't that in itself be "stupid?" Just a thought..... wouldn't even giving advice when your not even a health care provider in the first place be stupid? I mean, wouldn't that be like the blind leading the blind?
Like I said just some thoughts.
BTW, I don't think I am the perfect person to give advice, I just think I am a person. By wich doesn't that give me the right to post here.... or do I have to have a merrit badge, or HIV etc before I can post?
with respect to the dentist,please dont be harsh in giving your opinion to people who are anxios... I myself is a a medical student and of course I give respect to people in the medical field.... with regards to dentist they dont have sufficient information in school regarding communicable disieases, like medical students... spalshes in the eye poses a risk to all health care workers and even needle injury... but this are low risk, the CDC recomends prophylaxis treatment for HIV exposures of mucus membrane contact... but the risk is .03% be aware of febrile illness within 12 weeks and be evaluated. And baseline testing at exposure and testing at 6 weeks and 12 weeks...
Please do have respect to people in the health care proffession
Please do have respect to people in the health care proffession
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