Hiv high risk and anxiety

[Anxiety0000]

Hi All,


My anxiety making me away from testing HIV. But I'm not sure I'm infrected or not , i had an unprotected sex with an massage therapist from bali which was just for 10-20 seconds without condom, after that i had sex with condom even that lasted for around 5 min and that was my first sex in life.

I had a flu like symptoms for 3 days, but that was manageable I wasn't in bed rest, and got to have possible all symptoms like muscle ache, two three red bumbs like rashes(4 to 5 days) throat pain,

And at the same time i had quit smoking cigarettes which i used to smoke around 5 to 6 cigarettes a day,

I feel soo nervous when to test or should I test and from where to test in Bangalore(India)

Sorry for the broken English

Please advise me an help!!

[Anxiety0000]

Thank you very much!! I just got my result now!
  Its NON-REACTIVE!!!!!!

[RubyWitch]

First of all, HIV is NEVER diagnosed by symptoms. I have included a link for testing sites in Bangalore.
I wish you the very best

http://yellowpages.sulekha.com/free-hiv-testing-centre_bangalore_contacts

[Anxiety0000]

Thank you very much for your reply maam!

Can you suggest me which test will be relevant for me? Is an ELISA test will be fine

[RubyWitch]

A 4th generation DUO test 28 days post your exposure will give you a very good indication of your status, but it will not be conclusive. Test again at 6-8 weeks with any blood drawn test for conclusive results.

I have included words from one of our top HIV Specialists, Dr. Edward W Hook.
  

"We get many questions about the meaning of HIV test results at different time points.  This is now confused by the availability of a variety of different types of tests.  The traditional and most widely used tests for HIV are tests for antibodies to HIV which are available both as so-called "rapid" or point of care tests which can be done in the clinic and laboratory based antibody tests. For all practical purposes both of these types of test perform comparably and provide accurate information on the presence or absence of HIV infection in virtually everyone at 8 weeks following exposure.  The recommendations for testing at 3 and even 6 months are the result of two factors- data from older tests no longer used (you really do not need to worry about which generation of tests you were tested with, at this time virtually all tests are far more sensitive that they were even 2-3 years ago when the 3 month recommendation was made) and secondly, the fact that some, mostly governmental agencies which have to provide recommendations for virtually everyone without the sort of interactions such as those you get with your doctor or on personalized sites such as this one, feel they cannot "afford" to be wrong and therefore make recommendations and guidelines which leave most people unnecessarily nervous for 4-6 weeks longer than the 6-8 weeks it takes virtually everyone to develop HIV antibodies."

Hope this helps and know that we wish you the very best outcome.
RubyWitch  

[Anxiety0000]

I have  tested hiv negative by antibodies in test after 72days (10.2 weeks) in India , I am not sure which generation this this is??? How we decide that ?? And What is accuracy after 10.2 weeks ?? I am still worrie and scared to go for test

[Anxiety0000]

And the test was
hiv 1&2 screening test(rapid)/
hiv antibodies serum, method:immunofileration