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HIGH RISK! NEED HELP!!!
Sorry to long Ill ask the question below.
MEDICAL PROFESSIONAL
I do not know if the specific case you are speaking of and thus cannot comment on the accuracy or circumstances of the report. I can tell you however that there are a few (reports of persons who have taken longer than 12 weeks to develop antibodies to HIV. These have been persons who took therapy for HIV after their exposure, delaying growth of the virus or persons with profoundly abnormal immune systems such as persons receiving cancer chemotherapy. Since these sorts of exceptions do not apply to you, you need not worry.
No further questions please. EWH
No further questions please. EWH
Sorry Docotor I didn't want to pay another $15 just to ask this question...
I was reading the free forums and saw one post this:
2. I also read of a *confirmed* case where a women didn't test positive until 1 year after being exposed to HIV and HEP C @ the same time (http://www.aids.org/factSheets/102-HIV-Testing.html) under when I should get tested section. I'm sure you have heard of this, is there a reason she took so long to test positive? Was this do to PEP?
Why did this person take so long to test positive?? I'm sure you have heard of this case right?? I just want to know why? I promise this is the end of this thread!
I was reading the free forums and saw one post this:
2. I also read of a *confirmed* case where a women didn't test positive until 1 year after being exposed to HIV and HEP C @ the same time (http://www.aids.org/factSheets/102-HIV-Testing.html) under when I should get tested section. I'm sure you have heard of this, is there a reason she took so long to test positive? Was this do to PEP?
Why did this person take so long to test positive?? I'm sure you have heard of this case right?? I just want to know why? I promise this is the end of this thread!
MEDICAL PROFESSIONAL
No, co-infectin wiht viral hepatitis would not effect your test results. you really do not have HIV. EWH
sorry last question... and i promise I will stop... if i got infected with hepatitis (a,b,c) and hiv at the same time could that delay test results?
Sorry for posting too long of a question, that was a bit selfish of me and I realize my questions are of no greater importance than any one else's. And also thank you so much for your response I kinda knew I was going to hear exactly what you said but seeing you physically write it helps me a lot. Thanks you sir and happy holidays!
MEDICAL PROFESSIONAL
You are not following our site's rules. The reasons that questions are limited in length is to allow others access to the site as well.
Answer. You do not have HIV and do not need further testing. Your apparent assumption that your partner had HIV had no basis in fact and in fact, most commercial sex workers do not have HIV. Furthermore, most exposures to infected partners do not lead to infection. Finally and perhaps most importantly, you have been tested again and again and again and all results are negative. you do not have HIV and do not need further testing. As for your questions:
1. See above. No further testing needed.
2. Our recommendations (final answer - 3 months, not 6) are based on many. many studies in which the time of infection can be defined. Sometimes these are needle sticks, others are sexual. The data are the data,
3. Get over your anxiety. the facts are the facts -you do not have HIV.
4. Yes, you are beyond the window for all STDs
5. No
6. See above. Most people do not have HIV and most exposures do not lead to transmission.
7. Have sex with your GF. You do not have HIV
8. Your doctor is correct'
EWH
Answer. You do not have HIV and do not need further testing. Your apparent assumption that your partner had HIV had no basis in fact and in fact, most commercial sex workers do not have HIV. Furthermore, most exposures to infected partners do not lead to infection. Finally and perhaps most importantly, you have been tested again and again and again and all results are negative. you do not have HIV and do not need further testing. As for your questions:
1. See above. No further testing needed.
2. Our recommendations (final answer - 3 months, not 6) are based on many. many studies in which the time of infection can be defined. Sometimes these are needle sticks, others are sexual. The data are the data,
3. Get over your anxiety. the facts are the facts -you do not have HIV.
4. Yes, you are beyond the window for all STDs
5. No
6. See above. Most people do not have HIV and most exposures do not lead to transmission.
7. Have sex with your GF. You do not have HIV
8. Your doctor is correct'
EWH
Hello I will try to keep this short but I really need help, I really feel depressed about the whole situation and I’m kind of loosing my mind. I’m a 22-year-old male in good health, I don’t do drugs. I party a lot though and drink often on the weekends and smoke weed and chew tobacco.
Here is the encounter. I was in Mexico in a high travel tourist spot on August 1st. I had a sex with a female prostitute. I had unprotected Anal, Oral, and Vaginal sex with her. And to top things off and make it worse I think she was on her period because I saw blood on my penis after and we were is some bushes wich I’m thinking makes it more likely to get cuts and stuff. I realize most women including sex workers don’t have HIV but for practical purposes lets assume she does.
I have a girlfriend now and I told her about the encounter (didn’t say she was a prostitute but what ever). We have been waiting to have sex but last night nearly had sex but I don’t want to put her in harms way.
Here is my testing schedule:
2 weeks @ Planned Parenthood I did rapid HIV 1 test (Unigold) & std’s. Everything came up negative.
4 weeks @ Planned Parenthood rapid HIV 1 test (Unigold) – Negative
6 weeks @ Planned Parenthood rapid HIV 1 test (Unigold) – Negative
8 weeks @ Planned Parenthood rapid HIV 1 test (Unigold) – Negative
10 weeks I said F*ck PPhood I don’t trust them. So I went to San Francisco City Clinic and I did there RNA test which they say looks for the HIV in the body as soon as 9-12days and they did and ELISA test and full STD test everything came up negative.
12 weeks @ Planned Parenthood rapid HIV 1 test (Unigold) – Negative
15 weeks I decided I wanted to go through my own Doctor office (nice/expensive place) and they did an ELISA HIV test and full STD test including herpes everything came up NEGATIVE Except the oral herpes (not the genital herpes) but I already knew that as I get could sores a couple times a year.
17 weeks (4.2 months) - so then I was convinced that I had HIV 2 since none of these test covered that so I did the ORAQUICK test which covers HIV 1&2 and that came up negative.
Symptoms – I really have had 0 symptoms, nothing on my penis, no ARS. Just a bit of diarrhea and a common cold. I also got a sinus infection a few weeks ago and am on Antibiotics for that but I don’t think any of this is related.
So here are my questions –
1. Some of the HIV counselors I talked to say I should test out to 6 months. But these are just counselors vs doctors like @ the SF city clinic who told me I am fine. What should I believe?
2. You guys say that 3 or 6 months is conclusive but how do you really know? How do you know that some one who test’s positive isn’t really testing positive from some encounter from 2 years ago and it just finally came up positive but they think it was from a recent encounter?
3. Am I in the free? How sure can you be?
4. Did I meet all the window periods for the STD’s am I in the clear for that?
5. Is there any way in theory that the RNA test could not have seen the HIV in my body and that the antibodies just haven’t developed enough yet? Do you think there is some way the SF city clinic could mess up during the testing process or maybe missed some thing or switched my results?
6. How the hell could I have put my self at such a high risk and not even got an std?
7. Can I have sex with my GF now, do I have HIV?
8. I though that maybe I cant produce antibodies but then I asked a doctor this, he said if I couldn’t produce antibodies I would have bigger problems than HIV, is this true?
This is the last question I would really like you guys to answer, if you guys do say that I’m fine, how can you be so sure? I’m so scared to put this behind me (which I really want to, I’m tired of testing). How do you know in 10 year’s from now if I have moved on with my life that all the sudden I wont get sick and find out I really did have HIV the whole time from this encounter (assuming I never put myself @ risk again)? I really don’t trust any of this window period stuff and testing I just feel like mistakes do happen and I don’t know what to now? I think I’m going crazy!!!
Here is the encounter. I was in Mexico in a high travel tourist spot on August 1st. I had a sex with a female prostitute. I had unprotected Anal, Oral, and Vaginal sex with her. And to top things off and make it worse I think she was on her period because I saw blood on my penis after and we were is some bushes wich I’m thinking makes it more likely to get cuts and stuff. I realize most women including sex workers don’t have HIV but for practical purposes lets assume she does.
I have a girlfriend now and I told her about the encounter (didn’t say she was a prostitute but what ever). We have been waiting to have sex but last night nearly had sex but I don’t want to put her in harms way.
Here is my testing schedule:
2 weeks @ Planned Parenthood I did rapid HIV 1 test (Unigold) & std’s. Everything came up negative.
4 weeks @ Planned Parenthood rapid HIV 1 test (Unigold) – Negative
6 weeks @ Planned Parenthood rapid HIV 1 test (Unigold) – Negative
8 weeks @ Planned Parenthood rapid HIV 1 test (Unigold) – Negative
10 weeks I said F*ck PPhood I don’t trust them. So I went to San Francisco City Clinic and I did there RNA test which they say looks for the HIV in the body as soon as 9-12days and they did and ELISA test and full STD test everything came up negative.
12 weeks @ Planned Parenthood rapid HIV 1 test (Unigold) – Negative
15 weeks I decided I wanted to go through my own Doctor office (nice/expensive place) and they did an ELISA HIV test and full STD test including herpes everything came up NEGATIVE Except the oral herpes (not the genital herpes) but I already knew that as I get could sores a couple times a year.
17 weeks (4.2 months) - so then I was convinced that I had HIV 2 since none of these test covered that so I did the ORAQUICK test which covers HIV 1&2 and that came up negative.
Symptoms – I really have had 0 symptoms, nothing on my penis, no ARS. Just a bit of diarrhea and a common cold. I also got a sinus infection a few weeks ago and am on Antibiotics for that but I don’t think any of this is related.
So here are my questions –
1. Some of the HIV counselors I talked to say I should test out to 6 months. But these are just counselors vs doctors like @ the SF city clinic who told me I am fine. What should I believe?
2. You guys say that 3 or 6 months is conclusive but how do you really know? How do you know that some one who test’s positive isn’t really testing positive from some encounter from 2 years ago and it just finally came up positive but they think it was from a recent encounter?
3. Am I in the free? How sure can you be?
4. Did I meet all the window periods for the STD’s am I in the clear for that?
5. Is there any way in theory that the RNA test could not have seen the HIV in my body and that the antibodies just haven’t developed enough yet? Do you think there is some way the SF city clinic could mess up during the testing process or maybe missed some thing or switched my results?
6. How the hell could I have put my self at such a high risk and not even got an std?
7. Can I have sex with my GF now, do I have HIV?
8. I though that maybe I cant produce antibodies but then I asked a doctor this, he said if I couldn’t produce antibodies I would have bigger problems than HIV, is this true?
This is the last question I would really like you guys to answer, if you guys do say that I’m fine, how can you be so sure? I’m so scared to put this behind me (which I really want to, I’m tired of testing). How do you know in 10 year’s from now if I have moved on with my life that all the sudden I wont get sick and find out I really did have HIV the whole time from this encounter (assuming I never put myself @ risk again)? I really don’t trust any of this window period stuff and testing I just feel like mistakes do happen and I don’t know what to now? I think I’m going crazy!!!
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