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[ I am from Gujarat, India. This episode of mistake and foolishness happened on 30th June, 2011. I had an encounter with a Commercial Sex Worker from Bombay. First I fingered her. Then we went on to have bath. After the bath I touched her clits with the unprotected tip of my penis. Then we went on to have protected vaginal sex. The first condom slipped so I changed and put another one. This act was her upon me. I didn't reach orgasm so I removed protection and she sucked me unprotected and I came a bit in her mouth. Then finally she gave me a hand job. Thereafter in about next three hours I sucked her breasts thrice and deep fingered her vagina during that time. I don't know her HIV and STD status. I am having mild headache, loss of appetite, indigestion, sweating, feeling restless and sleep-ness since the day I was with her. My questions are :
Consider the Indian Scenario for my case since its different than the USA - UK or other countries I believe.
The last few days have been very scary and it looks like I am drifting towards death. Please help and give me correct guidance and information so that I can start medicines if required. Please help me doctor. It has been difficult time all through.]
Now, I have got my 8 day PCR RNA test results which reads as under :
Test : Quantification of HIV - 1 RNA by standard procedure on COBAS Taq Man - 48
Method : COBAS Taq Man - 48 with Manual Extraction
Target Selection : Highly Conserved Sequence of Gag gene is selected for amplification and detection
Limit of detection : 47 copies / ml (28.2 IU/ml)
Measuring Range : 47-10,000,000 copies / ml (28.2 IU/ml - 6,000,000 IU/ml)
Result : TARGET NOT DETECTED
Please can you comment on the result? Can this be considered reliable that I am not infected?
Repatative anxiety driven questions are not permitted. You had a definitive reply from Dr. Hook a week ago, and you have also received reassuring responses on the HIV international forum. Asking the same questions repeated times will not change the answers. This was a non-risky exposure and you did not need testing at all. If this is your only potential exposure, then it is impossible you have HIV, and your test results confirm it.
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