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Antibody tests

Hello,

I am trying to move on from an incident I had four years ago ( I blacked out with a girl and don't know what happened)

In order to do so I took an at home oraquick oral swab test last week which came out negative. I was very relieved then I read the test has false negatives and I began to doubt myself.

Four days later I took another at home oraquick test and again it came out negative. Once I through it away I couldn't help but go through the garbage to look at it again. Still the line was at the C and not at the T which is a negative result. I decided to snap the test in half and throw it away again in order to stop looking at it. Hours later I went to the trash again and grabbed the actual test strip and I noticed a faint T line! Immediately I panicked. Was the room I did the test in not light enough? How could my naked eye have missed this? I called oraquick and they advised this could happen when the test expires. They call it overdeveloping.

Regardless, I went to the ER and took a blood test.
They took vials of my blood then sent it to a lab to get results that night, I believe it was some form of oraquick rapid test. The result came back negative and the dr told me to move on.

My questions are:

Does it sound like I'm good to go?

Is my second test considered a false positive?

Can their be a false negative on a hospital blood rapid test 4 years past exposure?

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Thank you end of thread
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I will respect your final answer/explanation and will end this post
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NO
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Well that's worrying as I'm not sure if the second one was positive or negative, so I'm curious if the final ER one is definitive and I can move on. Is it realistic to think 4 years post exposure a hospital blood rapid test could give a false negative?  
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Meaning any test you took.
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Thanks, meaning my last test at the ER?
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Your tests are conclusive.
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Anybody have any technical info/statistics on my questions?
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Reading this I realize I sound crazy (the dr thought so too)
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No need to doubt anything, maybe the test after you throw it in the trash lost its accuracy after few hours. Anyway this is not important anymore after the ER testing.
You are HIV negative.
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I.e if my second test was actually a false positive would my hospital test trump this? I really believe during the 20-40 minute window when the test was valid for the second at home test I didn't see a line, but seeing it there hours later makes me doubt  my vision.
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You shouldn't be worry about your second test, you had another test after it which confirms that you are negative.
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Thanks! How about my question number 3? I read that false negatives happen more than false positives which makes me nervous.
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Sorry, I mean you are the most negative HIV guy I have ever known
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My friend, you are the most HIV guy I have ever know.
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