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Q: Neurotic Or Justified?
asked by: Nickracer on January 25th, 2006
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Every week I go to get allergy shots. I get my shots and then wait 20 minutes before the nurse or doctor checks my arm for a reaction. After waiting 20 minutes I went in to get my arm checked by the nurse. She was checking someone elses arm where they had received a shot and then after touching their arm(which had dry scabbed over blood) came over and touched my arm where I had received a shot. I don't know if any of his blood was on the nurses finger or if the man even had hiv/aids but it has been bothering me ever since I left the office. Am I just being neurotic or is it justified for me to be worried about this?? Is it possible to transmit hiv/aids that way if the person had the disease??
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Nickracer
replied on January 25th, 2006
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Anyone?? Please?
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Finess150
replied on January 26th, 2006
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No chance whatsoever. There would have been no frsh blood on her finger because it was a scab you described. I truly think that you are letting your imagination get the better of you. I reccomend that you visit the 'fears of getting hiv' forum on aidsmeds.Com, where experts will tell you what I have said - not a chance.

Do not worry, hiv is such a fragile virus, and it doesn't seek out 'new victims' like an intelligent life form.
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Nickracer
replied on January 28th, 2006
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Anyone else?
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Finess150
replied on January 29th, 2006
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Re: Anyone Else
Nick, you do not need anyone else to tell you that you didn't have a cat in hell's chance of becomeing infected from the scenario you describe. Hiv simply doesn't operate like that. Routes of transmission are from immediate body to body contact through the bloodstream or mucous membrane. That is why sharing needles, having unprotected intercourse (anal, vaginal and very very rarely oral), occasionnally breastmilk intake are the only documented cases of hiv transmission.
Plus, I strongly doubt any blood contact was made between you and the other patient. Certainly not any sufficient amount to sustain the hiv virus on the journey to your arm, where I suppose you think it might 'jump' its way into you? Impossible.

Let me tell you, if hiv was as easy to infect as the situation you describe, the majority of the world's population would be hiv

so, to conclude, you do not have hiv from this episode. Ok?
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