Could I please have your opinion on my test result ?

[danibelg]

Hello,
I am a 39 hetrosexual male.
I had an HIV test 6 weeks after having unprotected vaginal sex with a woman.
My test was negative!!! Can I be 100% reassured? Normally, how long does it take for the anibodies to be detected? Thank you in advance for your responce.
Danibelg

[regularjoey]

Whoa, hold on buddy.  That is NOT what I said!  It's probably a language barrier, I'm guessing english is not your first language - it's not for me either by the way.  Let me spell it out, since there clearly is a misunderstanding here.

1.  EVERY sexually active person should be REGULARLY tested for HIV - gay, straight, male, female, monogamous, polygamous, safe, unsafe, whatever.  EVERYONE!

2.  EVERYONE should practice safe sex!  Safe sex means careful choice of partners + condoms!  The safest way is to have both, but clearly you use your own judgement.

3.  NOBODY needs HIV testing over a specific event - unless it is a high-risk exposure.  All single time low risks (blowjobs, hetero etc.) ALWAYS test negative.  The rare positives are usually false positives.  It's a big waste of money for everyone.

I hope this is clearer now.

[Serge1975]

Joey, statistical risk may be low in your country - no arguing here. In my country it is a different story. However, even for your country make a simple calculation from the CDC figures quoted above for the US. If we follow your recommendations and not test heterosexual males, tens of thousands of people will not know their status until they develop AIDS and will continue to pass on the virus to other thousands of people in the meantime. Those people in their turn would pass on the virus to other people, etc. Is it impractical as you put it to save tens of thousands of people from HIV???  Give us a break, champ. You are giving a recipe for spreading the HIV epidemic further. danibelg should be alright but thousands of others will be positive, that's a fact and they MUST know their status to take care of their health and not to spread HIV further. You are wrong, Joey, very wrong, that's exactly why the CDC does it the opposite way.
No more debates, the point is absolutely clear.

[Teak]

That is few and far between when you are able to correct someone. I at least admit my mistakes. Big difference.

[sparkley]

wow....

someone has more issues than Newsweek.

[regularjoey]

I am an international man of mystery....

Hey, I hate arguing myself - I wish I could be like Dr.H. and just delete the comments I don't like )))
But I can't, so if I see that people are wrong, I correct them - what else can I do?

[Jaguar83]

No, he's like a couple kids I knew way back in high school. They always had to argue, no matter what the point was. It's an obsession with arguing, I've seen it repeatedly. I mean, there's an underlying cause, of course. I can't figure it out though.


Who are you regularjoey? Who is on in the inside? Are you in touch with your chi?