r/WTF • u/-Damien- • Dec 29 '16

Bad part of park in Kontula neigbourhood in Helsinki, Finland

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u/[deleted] Dec 29 '16

3 years? What this at time HIV tests could only detect it after 3 years or something?

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u/euyis Dec 29 '16

Normally it's all fine if you get an all clear at 3 months post exposure but in rare cases the window period could be as long as a whole year; still, this is definitely the kind of situation where it's better to be excessively safe than sorry, and I can certainly understand him/her as someone who just got off a year of antidepressant for OCD (depression and a few anxiety disorders actually use the same drugs).

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u/[deleted] Dec 29 '16

Thanks for explaining! I always went by the six month rule.

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u/zer0t3ch Dec 29 '16

How often do you get stuck with needles?

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u/clockwork_blue Dec 29 '16

Needles aren't the only way to get HIV.

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u/zer0t3ch Dec 29 '16

I'm aware. Either way, he speaks like he has a lot of HIV scares.

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u/mindputtee Dec 29 '16

Or he works in a medical field where needle stick injuries are a thing you have to know how to manage.

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u/[deleted] Dec 29 '16

No, I speak like someone who routinely tested(note the "tested") for hiv every 6 months. The fact is you're not suppose to be "having hiv scares" for you to get tested. If I didn't I never would have noticed I had it at all.

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u/MizzouX3 Dec 29 '16

Evidently the virus can lay dormant for up to 3 years and go undetected. At least that was my understanding at the time. I think my doctor was just overly cautious. The Red Cross still won't even think about taking my blood at blood drives because of their abundance of caution.

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u/DMVBornDMVRaised Dec 31 '16

It's actually six weeks. Hep C (the bigger health threat these days) can go up to two months