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open-wound exposure
I've read through many posts on this forum, but I have yet to come accross anyone who has had my same question:
I had a gash along the crease between my index finger and thumb, and although it was a few days old, the scab had not completely formed over the deeper skin layers (there was still some moisture on the wound). I was distracted because I was talking on the phone at the time, but I shook hands with my friend who had just been released from the hospital (after he spent a month recovering from collapsed lung and pneumonia--when he also found out that he has AIDS). I also accepted and took home my friend's leftovers from dinner, because I had known that it's not possible to be infected with HIV by sharing food with someone.
About six weeks after this, I started to have skin peel from the inside of my left cheek. Although it eventually went away in about a week or two, this same sort of peeling skin has reappeared several times in the 5 months since it first occured. In the most recent incidence, I also noticed these same loosened patches of skin on the inside of my bottom lip, and then there's also been this rough spot that has formed on my tongue--which feels as though had been burnt--during the last two times this happened. The places on the inside of my cheek and lip look similar to pictures I've seen of pseudomembranous oral candidiasis, and so this is why I wanted to ask if there's any possibility that I could've contracted HIV through contact with the wound on my hand? I know the majority of HIV transmissions occurs through sexual contact or shared needles, but this suspicion of thrush has me really, really concerned.
I had a gash along the crease between my index finger and thumb, and although it was a few days old, the scab had not completely formed over the deeper skin layers (there was still some moisture on the wound). I was distracted because I was talking on the phone at the time, but I shook hands with my friend who had just been released from the hospital (after he spent a month recovering from collapsed lung and pneumonia--when he also found out that he has AIDS). I also accepted and took home my friend's leftovers from dinner, because I had known that it's not possible to be infected with HIV by sharing food with someone.
About six weeks after this, I started to have skin peel from the inside of my left cheek. Although it eventually went away in about a week or two, this same sort of peeling skin has reappeared several times in the 5 months since it first occured. In the most recent incidence, I also noticed these same loosened patches of skin on the inside of my bottom lip, and then there's also been this rough spot that has formed on my tongue--which feels as though had been burnt--during the last two times this happened. The places on the inside of my cheek and lip look similar to pictures I've seen of pseudomembranous oral candidiasis, and so this is why I wanted to ask if there's any possibility that I could've contracted HIV through contact with the wound on my hand? I know the majority of HIV transmissions occurs through sexual contact or shared needles, but this suspicion of thrush has me really, really concerned.
if you are scared go test. but you didn't have a risk. also if you are going to continue to be scared over certain instances, stay away from them or seek help and information.
a person with hiv/aids...is not just walking around with infectious bodily fluids "oozing" from the pores in his skin.
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