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Hi looking for some reassurance . I got a tattoo ten weeks ago in Ireland . And couple of weeks after it I've been getting symptoms of hiv . I've had health anxiety for just over a year now before it was heart attack and brain tumour fears but this is by far the worst I'm at wits end . I got tested 2 days ago but still have to wait a week for results . I've became unbearable to live with n lack concentration at work thinking about it . I really hope result comes back negative then I can focus on beating the anxiety
You absolutely can not get HIV from a tatoo. It's impossible. I'm not really sure why you think you can except the lovely internet. You don't have the rapid HIV test in the UK? I got a test a while back the swabbed the inside of my mouth they told me it was negative in 20 mins. Anyway don't worry you can't get HIV from a tatoo.
I really hope u are right I'm at wits end having such a bad time in my life due to this thanx for taking time to reply
If the needle was clean, which it will have been, you won't have caught anything from the tatoo. It's harder to get hiv in a non-sex way than you might think. The virus doesn't cope outside the body very well, so near impossible that you would get it from a responsible tatoo parlour.
Its another manifestation of your anxiety. If it wasn't hiv, it would have been something else. When my HA was bad, I thought I had a blood clot because I had a red bump behind my knee. Turned out to be a bug bite. Our mind tricks us when we are anxious and daft ideas suddenly become credible.
Still waiting on results and anxious as ever .
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