Re: needlestick injury via a hollow-bore needle


greyhackles wrote:

Of course you could have been exposed. You got stuck, right?

The reason why I'm ambivalent and posting here is because I'm not quite
sure if what I had was really what they call a needlestick injury. In a
literal sense, my finger wasn't 'stuck' by a needle. The tip of the
needle made contact, but the needle didn't go into my finger as with an
injection. Maybe I would have had the same exposure if I slightly
tapped my finger onto the needle point to feel how sharp it really is.
But then again, it felt really sharp.


Get tested so you can stop worrying about it.

Worrying is bad, ok? Sometimes, worse than the disease...

I forgot to mention that I went to a physician to get tested. Physician
#1 took my baseline readings ( which were within normal limits ) and
told me to come for a follow-up reading 6 wks later.

Come 6 wks later, I met physician #2. ( this was a university-setting;
no assigned doctors ) She made me reiterate to her my situation and she
told me that I did not have an exposure because there weren't any
visible blood. She refused to go on with further blood tests, saying
they were a waste of time.

But she never gave me a clear answer of whether I could have gotten an
microscopic exposure that could have been infectious. I mean, the
needle still have could have penetrated through my gloves and skin
without visible punctures and blood.

I don't know what I should do.

.

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