My roomate has hiv and i was wondering the possibilties of contracting it.?

Question:

I've always suspected she had contracted hiv but now that i know for sure i am worried. I put alchohol on the toilet seat before i use it. I spray lysol on the phone and computer incase i have a cut and she has a cut but in the past i have slept on her bed and she sweats in her sleep and so do i. But i dont sleep there while she is on the bed. And the scariest ones are that before we knew i borrowed a pair of herr most used running shoes and i got a blister. i know her sweat was dried up in them so that worries me. and also another scary thing is she has scraped my arm before and she has long finger nails. I wonder if sometimes she doesnt wash her hands after she uses the restroom or scratches her skin when there can be dry sweat or something. Please, i soung ignorant because i am about this and i am a major worrier. If anyone knows any possibilities of any of the thing being able to contract it form please let me know whatever you know. thank you so much!

Answers:
HIV Facts:
1. Contagious through bodily fluids including semen, vaginal fluids, blood, or breast milk. Saliva and sweat don’t count.
2. HIV cannot live when exposed to oxygen and needs to be spread internally from person to person.
3. Can’t get it from doorknobs, kissing (unless if you drink 2 liters of someone’s saliva – but yeah right, that’s a lot!), or toilet seats.
4. Can’t be transmitted through mosquitos.
5. If she scratched you, then all she got were your skin cells. Even if you had HIV and she didn’t, she can’t get it. So you’re fine there.
6. When you had a worry about her shoes, she only sweats in her shoes and even if she had a bleeding blister it would be exposed to air and thus not transmittable.

If you really think about it – HIV is not AIDS. AIDS is the stage where people get their T-cell count so below average that the die from COLDS or FLUS – you never die from AIDS itself. Some people have HIV and never get AIDS for 50 years without medication. AIDS, when you get to that stage, has 100% death rate, but it’s actually pretty hard to catch. Which leaves room for a very dangerous theory – in order to destroy the human race, you would have to make a disease like HIV but make it easier to catch. HIV is not airbourne or from person-to-person contact. The main way to catch it is sex, but only if you bleed during the process or semen enters the body internally. Sometimes the blood droplet is microscopic, so you don’t know if you have bled or not. Some people have unprotected sex with HIV patients and don’t’ get it. Some people are unknowingly immune to the disease or jus tnever happen to contract it. Don’t worry so much. Unless you want to have sex with her or drink her breast milk or blood, don’t worry. You can share food with her.
I hope this helps your understanding!

uh, dont have sex with your roommate?

the likely hood of u contracting it slim.But, keep doing what ur doing just in case.

I would move out, it's not worth even coming close. I'm sure that she would do the same if it were the other way around and I would think that she would be understanding. you don't want to live as a paranoid person!

You are not going to get HIV unless you starting having lots of sex with her. Contrary to popular belief, the HIV virus is very frail. Exposure to light, bleach, etc. will annihilate it. It cannot survive out of the body for very long.

My roomate has hiv and i was wondering the possibilties of contracting it.?

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