This is most likely incredibly ridiculous, but I am definitely a hypochondriac and suffer from sometimes severe anxiety. I really just want someone to tell me what the odds would be that I could have contracted HIV from a possible exposure 18 years ago. I accidentally used someone else's razor (I have no idea of this person's HIV status, although they died about 11 years ago from, I believe, a brain tumor) while staying with friends. I thought the razor was mine because it looked identical but it was not. I don't remember if I cut myself while shaving with the razor. I've never had any illness or "symptoms" in the 18 years that would lead me to believe I contracted HIV nor have I done anything else that would have exposed me to the virus.
My husband just had to have blood tests for HIV as a work requirement and he gets his results back on friday. I guess that is what spurred my renewed anxiety about this situation from 18 years ago. My feeling is that in 18 years I surely would have had some symptoms...but I would like some reassurance. (I do have one lymph node right below my hairline on my neck that I can always feel - it's pea sized and my dr said nothing to worry about but it's been there and palpable for 2 1/2 years that i know about and does not go away).
What are the chances that I could have acquired HIV from this incident and what are the chances that I could have lived with it for 18 years and not known?