- Username
- Cheeks
- Date posted
- 5y ago
- Username
- skhaanskhaan
- Date posted
- 5y ago
Yeh, then do that as soon as possible. Just get the test done at on of the NHS clinics. Hope you feel better soon .
- Username
- Mooooni Mooooni
- Date posted
- 2y ago
@skhaan This is an old post but I am reading stories since I have hiv ocd. Someone passed me a fork last night and I’m afraid she had blood on her hands and now I feel like she could have infected me. I know it’s my paranoid thinking but can you get hiv through mouth?
- Username
- skhaanskhaan
- Date posted
- 5y ago
Firstly HIV dosent transmit so easily. Having been involved in health care, if it was that easy everyone will have HIV . But I'm sure you have been tested and had multiple reassurances from professional, so clearly that dosent calm your mind. I will say when HIV thoughts come, do not block them. Let them come. By not blocking and being with these thoughts/anxiety it will dissapeared soon, like very soon
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- CheeksCheeks
- Date posted
- 5y ago
BioSURE tests are self tests, they apparently have a 99.7% accuracy rate. I think the NHS uses them too, but I just can't shake the feeling of thinking I have HIV and have passed it on. I've not had reassurance from a professional, I'm considering going to the GUM clinic on Monday for something even more conclusive. Although BioSURE does say that as long as you test after 12 weeks the result is conclusive.
- Username
- uwotm8uwotm8
- Date posted
- 5y ago
@skhaan I’m in a pickle myself can you give me some advice seeing as you worked in health care? I washed my hands to the point of cracking and bleeding. Yesterday my hand was bleeding fresh blood and I got on a train. I accidentally knocked my cut skin on the plastic headrest of the train seat. When I looked up there was what looked like fresh blood there. I’m not sure if it was mine or not, because I didn’t notice any before I sat down, but if it was someone else’s blood, I’m panicking I now have hiv in my cut The hiv helpline said no it’s not a risk, as did the sexual health helpline, but I’m thinking “they’re obviously not listening to me” or “what if they don’t understand the situation I’m explaining” The last guy I spoke to said they’d tell me if there was a risk because they’re in deep trouble if they don’t but I’m so on edge because I don’t wanna pass it to my partner
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- Username
- Cheeks
- Date posted
- 5y ago
- Extremely low risk sexual encounter 7 years ago that was SO unlikely to transmit HIV. - The person was my boyfriend, we were 16-17, even more unlikely to have HIV. - 7 years with no symptoms. - 2 BioSURE HIV tests with negative results. - BioSURE has a 99.7% accuracy rate. - Negative results are 99.99% accurate and considered conclusive at 12 week post possible exposure. Yet here I am still terrified I have HIV. What the fuck?
- Username
- danocd
- Date posted
- 5y ago
I have a problem that I'm scared to catch a serious illness like hiv or aids from kissing people or becoming to close to them. It makes me get away from people and I have problems in relationships because I cant trust them if they are clean and I'm too freak... this Sunday I kissed a girl I met on tinder and she made me an scar on my mouth... and now I feel terrible cause if her blood got into my scar I may have caught hiv. I have been 3 days on terrible distress and this sucks... I dont know how to not think about it and I really dont talk to this girl anymore, I checked her mouth 2 or 3 times for injuries or blood (she didn't had any and I dont know if she has hiv or not) but I'm in terrible distress just for the fact that I had an open cut while kissing her and thst kiss could have made me sick with hiv. I really hate this and I hate myself and my decisions of kissing her. And this combines qith my religious compulsions... I'm really hating myself, OCD and illness right now... I'm in big distress and just want to vent a little bit. I just hope I didn't caught hiv from kissing this girl that made me an open cut as I said before but I cant be sure and this makes me crazy.... I just hate it... and hate this thoughts
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- waytooparanoid
- Date posted
- 5y ago
Really really struggling with an ongoing genital herpes obsession. I have had no serious sign that I have it and I've been tested multiple times for every other STD but herpes requires either a blood test or the swabbing of symptomatic sores and a lot of doctors recommend against it since it is so common, harmless, and just causes mental distress to know. 5 years ago I messed around with another girl (just kissing and maybe hand contact) and she later told me she had genital herpes but she was on medication for it. It's hard to function thinking I have it and may have passed it on even though I have no reason to think I do. I feel like getting blood tested while having no symptoms would be a bad idea for my recovery but I'm not sure.
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