worried - HIV Prevention Message Board

07-06-2002, 10:18 PM

A few days ago I was in a store shopping. When I was ready to leave, I got a drink out of a cooler by the checkout. When I went to shut the door, I accidently cut my toe on the bottom of the cooler door. My toe started bleeding right away. At the time I didn't think anything of it and I check out and left the store. By the time I got home, my toe had stopped bleeding. It was then that I started thinking that someone else could have cut themselves the same way I did just a few minutes before I got there. Now I am afraid that I could have possibly gotten AIDS from it. I haven't been able to get that thought out of my mind. I am currently pregnant and I am worried about my baby. Does anyone think that I have a reason to be concerned or am I just being very paranoid.

By the way, I do have OCD and I have been off my medicine due to my pregnancy.

07-07-2002, 12:30 PM

You are just being very paranoid. I assume you were seeing a therapist who prescribed you medicine for your OCD. Perhaps you should discuss this with them if it continues to concern you.

AshleeD · 07-08-2002, 12:49 PM

You have no reason to worry. If people got infected that way (by cutting themselves on things in stores, outside, in the mall, etc.) there would be a lot of people infected with AIDS. I would rest at ease. It's very rare and maybe even impossible to get it that way. I don't even know if AIDs can survive outside the body...But I hope this helps and good luck with your pregnancy

! Take care.

~Ashlee