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mrchickenhead
12-01-2004, 01:38 PM
I been doing some reading and think i may have had a possible exposure.

In april with a girl, i was using my fingers on her. I didnt have sex. i noticed afterwards there was a cut on one of the fingers i had been using. Washed it and thought nothing more of it. In june (abt 6 weeks later) i got what was diagnosed as glandular fever. You call it Mono in the U.S. Aching all over all day and night, night sweats, sore throat and headaches. This lasted 2 weeks. I had a blood test done for glandular fever, and this is how the diagnosis was made. I have read somewhere that hiv can cause a false positive for glandular fever, is this true?
Then in oct i gave blood (6mths after poss exposure). I didnt realise i was at risk at the time. Had my donor card with grouping come through, no contact to say there was a problem with any of my tests.

What im really asking is could i be at risks and could both tests (glandular fever and HIV screening) have missed it?

thanks.

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Yakins
12-01-2004, 03:32 PM
In the situation you've described it's -extremely- unlikely that you could have contracted hiv. Now, to get HIV it has to get into the bloodstream. The cut on your finger would have to be deep, bleeding, and very fresh as in within the maybe past 5-10 minutes. But if you've already been tested, I wouldn't worry about it. You seriously were not at risk, as I've never heard of anybody contracting HIV through this. Don't worry about it.

mrchickenhead
12-02-2004, 03:36 AM
The cut was bleeding, but it wasnt deep. Im thinking the Blood service should have picked up HIV at 6 mths exposure. Just wanted to be sure. Thanks

 
 
 




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