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#33849 - 05/07/02 01:37 AM
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could a piercer easily place tainted blood into a needle even though i watched him take it out of a sterile bag? how easy would it be to slip a fast one, like before i got in there? does anyone here have knowledge about the design of piercing needles and if the needle is going in, would the contents inside of the needle stay in the needle from force? i can remember the dentist who infected his patients years ago...help i got pierced a week ago in the navel. have since taken it out. i have no real reason to believe the piercer would do this, but he was awfully creepy.
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This is real paranoia. Why the piercer should have purposedly done this? Where does he store infected blood? And why? Is he paid by GSK to sell combivir? please, this is conspiration theory, the fact he was creepy looking doesn't neceassarily mean he was an agent of evil.
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You are putting way too much thought into this...remember, there are no documented cases of HIV being transmitted via piercing or tattooing needles. The risk of infection is theoretical only. It is true that infected blood could remain in the hollow bore of a needle, but piercing/tattooing parlors are required to follow certain safety procedures in order to be licensed, including proper sterilization and disposal of used equipment. If you saw the piercer take the needle out of a package, then you are perfectly fine. Just because he looked creepy does not mean the needle wasn't sterile.
Last May (I can't believe it's already been a year!) I was tested at a public health clinic for HIV and syphilis. The lab tech who drew my blood was a JERK of the highest degree - he was extremely rude, unfriendly, and insensitive to the emotions I was feeling being in there. The clinic itself was also filthy. And, worst of all, I didn't see the lab tech take out a clean needle to draw my blood - and another patient had just walked out seconds before I went in. Because of this, I convinced myself that the tech used the previous patient's needle on me, that that patient had been infected, and now I was infected, too. All because the lab tech was an ass. And you know what? A year later I'm still testing negative. I tell you this in the hope of reassuring you that you are fine - try not to worry :)
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