Hiv from inadvertently rubbing on crowd with laminate plastic card

[JohnPT]

Dear Friends,
Sorry for posting a new treath again on this forum.
I know I have some anxiety driven questions, but in the last saturday I suffered an incident which is scaring me, which I’d like to hear your precious opinion regarding HIV, Heps B/C or any other blood borne diseases transmission.

I was at my political party annual congress in a crowded  and  I was leaning into a wall hearing a speach, when a guy who was handing a TV camera, and who looked to be a HIV positive person (had visible facial wasting and bulging veins on his arms which I think is a result of taking antiretroviral drugs), rubbed on me in order to pass on the crowded gallery corridor smashing me into the wall rubbing itself over my body.

I've entered in panic since I felt the pressure of him over my belt which over my waist and belly, and I also had an identification laminated plastic hanging card lanyard hanged on my neck suspended into waist.

I'm frigneted that the guy could have cut himself at my belt's buckle and since I felt its pressure over my shirt and in my belly , or if the guy could have cut at the plastic laminate card or in the metal hook of the lanyard, or even in the metal golden button of my navy blazer which was opened in the time of the accident, and if later I could have cut or scratched myself on each one of these surfaces since I’ve touched them several minutes later with my hands.

Don’t remember seeing cuts, but I'm getting really tired of thinking on this fears, but I had the bad luck of being stepped by that positive guy guy with the worst appearance on that crowded room.

Sorry for taking your time again, and thanks for your advisement.

Best wishes

[JohnPT]

Dear Lizzie Lou and NurseGirl,

Thank you so much for your help and friendship concern.

I don't know if there was blood on the card or on my belt since it could have dried in the mean while, just saw a redness on my belly from the belt pressure.

I really know that one cannot identify all positive persons, however, there are some evidence signs of HIV infection such as the ones I have pointed above.

But I really think that this incident was a kind of "shock therapy", which eliminated my irrational fears regarding this issues.

Thanks again for all your support and spent time.

Best wishes

[nursegirl6572]

You need to seek some serious help for your phobic thinking.  You cannot tell if someone is HIV positive by looking at them, and you certainly cannot get HIV from a crowd.  If someone had been cut, you would have seen blood.

Get some professional help, you don't have an HIV concern, there is nothing we can help you with.

[LIZZIE LOU]

really?  

you have really convinced yourself of all of this?