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hiv concern
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Three weeks ago, I manually stimulated a guy, and his semen got on my hand. I have eczema on my hand. He didn't do anything to me. On the 21st day, I took a fourth-generation test, and it was negative. However, I have many symptoms such as a severe cough, fatigue, chills, continuous nausea, and rashes. I want to know if I need to continue to worry.
Three weeks ago, I manually stimulated a guy, and his semen got on my hand. I have eczema on my hand. He didn't do anything to me. On the 21st day, I took a fourth-generation test, and it was negative. However, I have many symptoms such as a severe cough, fatigue, chills, continuous nausea, and rashes. I want to know if I need to continue to worry.
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Your situation involves personal contact with an object in air (semen, hand, maybe someone's saliva, maybe blood, fluids, eczema, etc. ) . You will be happy to learn that you had no risk, because you can't get hiv from personal contact except unprotected penetrating vaginal or anal with a penis, neither of which you did and you didn't share hollow needles to inject with which is the only other way to acquire hiv - there are ONLY 3 ways to get hiv. Note that 2 of them require a penis and the third requires a hollow injecting shared needle - there are no OTHER ways to get hiv. Analysis of large numbers of infected people over the 40 years of hiv history has proven that people don't get hiv in the way you are worried is a risk.
Hiv is a fragile virus in air or saliva and is effectively instantly dead in either air or saliva so the WORST that could happen is dead virus rubbed you, and obviously anything which is dead cannot live again so you are good. Blood and cuts would not be relevant in your situation since the hiv has become effectively dead, so you don't have to worry about them to be sure that you are safe.
There is no reason for a person to test when they are safe. The advice took into consideration that the other person might be positive, so move on and enjoy life instead of thinking about this non-event. hiv prevention is straightforward since there are only 3 ways you can become infected, so next time you wonder if you had a risk, ask yourself this QUESTION. "Did I do any of the 3?" Then after you ANSWER "No, I didn't" you will know that it's time to move on back to your happy life.
No one got hiv from what you did during 40 years of hiv history and no one will get it in the next 40 years of your life either. You can do what you did any time and be safe from hiv.
The other person's status is irrelevant when you have no exposure to live virus.
If you still have questions about your risk, after reading all of the above, then it is because you didn't answer the QUESTION above.
You have no hiv symptoms, since you can't have hiv. See doc if you believe you have health issues, instead of fixating on hiv.
Hiv is a fragile virus in air or saliva and is effectively instantly dead in either air or saliva so the WORST that could happen is dead virus rubbed you, and obviously anything which is dead cannot live again so you are good. Blood and cuts would not be relevant in your situation since the hiv has become effectively dead, so you don't have to worry about them to be sure that you are safe.
There is no reason for a person to test when they are safe. The advice took into consideration that the other person might be positive, so move on and enjoy life instead of thinking about this non-event. hiv prevention is straightforward since there are only 3 ways you can become infected, so next time you wonder if you had a risk, ask yourself this QUESTION. "Did I do any of the 3?" Then after you ANSWER "No, I didn't" you will know that it's time to move on back to your happy life.
No one got hiv from what you did during 40 years of hiv history and no one will get it in the next 40 years of your life either. You can do what you did any time and be safe from hiv.
The other person's status is irrelevant when you have no exposure to live virus.
If you still have questions about your risk, after reading all of the above, then it is because you didn't answer the QUESTION above.
You have no hiv symptoms, since you can't have hiv. See doc if you believe you have health issues, instead of fixating on hiv.
But why is the timing of the symptoms so coincidental? I can't stand it anymore, I cough every day, have muscle aches, and feel nauseous. Am I at risk?
You had ZERO risk for HIV. You cannot get HIV through your hand, no matter what.
If you are having medical issues, you should see a doctor for diagnosis of your non-HIV related symptoms.
ZERO RISK.
If you are having medical issues, you should see a doctor for diagnosis of your non-HIV related symptoms.
ZERO RISK.
"But why is the timing of the symptoms so coincidental? " Disease and health conditions do not follow a schedule, so you should always be prepared for unknown health changes at any day of the year. In this case 2 unrelated things happened, (one of which is a non-event) and you need to accept that instead of what you are doing now.
Presently you are making the mistake of trying to connect unrelated events into a systemic attack on your health, just because they occurred within a month of each other. That's like breaking your leg, then getting skin cancer the next month, then thinking breaking a leg is a cause of skin cancer.
Many people have muscle aches and feel nauseous when they are afraid they are dying, but if their doctor says there is nothing wrong they find the problems were in their imagination. See doc if you think you have real health problems instead of wasting your time playing doctor without any medical training.
Presently you are making the mistake of trying to connect unrelated events into a systemic attack on your health, just because they occurred within a month of each other. That's like breaking your leg, then getting skin cancer the next month, then thinking breaking a leg is a cause of skin cancer.
Many people have muscle aches and feel nauseous when they are afraid they are dying, but if their doctor says there is nothing wrong they find the problems were in their imagination. See doc if you think you have real health problems instead of wasting your time playing doctor without any medical training.
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