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Question about exposure
« on: July 26, 2013, 11:55:17 pm »
thank you all so much for the time and post. I finally found the right website that can hopefully answer my question I been getting mixed answers from my dr and other places i posted. I am reallly concern about an exposure i had. July 13 I was jabbed with a needle with syringe(or something similar) on my chest and my chest was bleeding not sure if blood or something was injected. Couple days ago i started feeling really sick i got strep throat, high fever, headache,swollen lymphnodes and gums. I called my dr and he said that was very high risk and should have taken some meds to prevent hiv within 72hrs. My dr told me to test in 3months. Am I at high risk. I have never had strep throat and i been feeling awful. Today i developed diarrhea. Worst case secenario if something was injected in my chest would that make me test positive. thank you for your hope.

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Re: Question about exposure
« Reply #1 on: July 27, 2013, 12:27:11 am »
I am confused. Can you elaborate how and why and where this "jabbing" happened?

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Re: Question about exposure
« Reply #2 on: July 27, 2013, 06:55:15 pm »
It was at a festival. It was my chest. I'm jut trying to see worst case scenario if someone injected me with positive blood what are my risks.

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Re: Question about exposure
« Reply #3 on: July 27, 2013, 07:20:24 pm »
It was at a festival. It was my chest. I'm jut trying to see worst case scenario if someone injected me with positive blood what are my risks.

Well, if the needle had JUST been used to gather blood from an HIV positive individual with a high viral load, and within a minute was jabed into your body with the plunger depressed, you did have a rather high risk. That is how IV drug users who share needles get infected.

As it's far too late for PEP you have to wait six weeks for a test result that, though HIGHLY unlikely to change, must be verified conclusively at the three month mark.

Although I have never heard of such an infection in my life, and you would likely make international news (and, of course, forwarded e-mails from anxious mothers of potential festival-goers) were this to happen. Which I am more than ninety-nine percent certain that it did not.

Likely you got jabbed with something that wasn't a needle. Getting anything forcibly injected in your body hurts like crazy and would leave a rather large, blood-filled welt that would inspire you to take immediate medical help.

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Re: Question about exposure
« Reply #4 on: July 27, 2013, 07:54:23 pm »
Thanks you so much. I'm gonna get tested soon. Do you think my sickness are ars symptoms. I was getting mix answer cause iv users get infected cause it goes in iv this was more like a im injection or a jab. Makes me really nervous and scared.i can't even function.

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« Reply #5 on: July 28, 2013, 12:57:39 am »
Thanks you so much. I'm gonna get tested soon. Do you think my sickness are ars symptoms. I was getting mix answer cause iv users get infected cause it goes in iv this was more like a im injection or a jab. Makes me really nervous and scared.i can't even function.

I do not think your symptoms are ARS.

I do not think you were at risk.

I do not think you need to test.

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Re: Question about exposure
« Reply #6 on: July 28, 2013, 04:35:08 am »
Chriz,

While you do not need to test over this weird incident (it's a highly unlikely scenario - one of urban myth), if you're a sexually active adult, you should be testing for hiv and all the other STIs once a year, at least.

Here's what you need to know in order to avoid hiv infection:

You need to be using condoms for anal or vaginal intercourse, every time, no exceptions until such time as you are in a securely monogamous relationship where you have both tested for ALL sexually transmitted infections together.

To agree to have unprotected intercourse is to consent to the possibility of being infected with an STI. Sex without a condom lasts only a matter of minutes, but hiv is forever.

Have a look through the condom and lube links in my signature line so you can use condoms with confidence.

Anyone who is sexually active should be having a full sexual health care check-up, including but not limited to hiv testing, at least once a year and more often if unprotected intercourse occurs.

If you aren't already having regular, routine check-ups, now is the time to start. As long as you make sure condoms are being used for intercourse, you can fully expect your routine hiv tests to return with negative results.

Don't forget to always get checked for all the other sexually transmitted infections as well, because they are MUCH easier to transmit than hiv. Some of the other STIs can be present with no obvious symptoms, so the only way to know for sure is to test.

Use condoms for anal or vaginal intercourse, correctly and consistently, and you will avoid hiv infection. It really is that simple!

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