Thank you for your question.<\/p>\n
It sounds as if you would benefit from some professional counseling about why you are so concerned with getting HIV. With today\u2019s modern drugs someone with HIV can lead a normal life with a near normal life expectancy so there is really nothing to worry about.<\/p>\n
HIV is not that easy to catch, especially in the UK where the prevalence is so low and where positive people have access to treatment making them non-infectious.<\/p>\n
You cannot get HIV from handling a parcel and you cannot get it from a needle that has been lying around for 4 hours.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
I feel so stupid and genuinely need help! I always think I am at danger of getting HIV. At the clinic, bars, etc. I don\u2019t know where this has all come from but its really getting to me now.<\/p>\n
I had a parcel come through the post for my neighbour who is a GP. I handled the parcels today and thought \u2018ohh what if something poked me?\u2019 It\u2019s always \u2018what ifs\u2019 like what if there was a needle etc<\/p>\n
My question is – is HIV easy to catch?<\/p>\n
Can I get HIV from something like a needle – lets say again for argument sake it had blood on it – it was sat in my lounge for 4 hours I guess the virus would die? What\u2019s wrong with me?<\/p>\n
I am due to have a test from a past previous encounter – on the 23rd august counting the days down and now this happened. If I had my test 2 days later it would bring this to 21 days.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2641","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-all-topics","category-hiv-transmission"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2641","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2641"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2641\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24797,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2641\/revisions\/24797"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2641"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2641"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2641"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}