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Unprotected sex with a girl symptoms starting at 5 weeks?
First of all Happy New Years to you all. 9 weeks ago i had unprotected sex with a female anally and vaginally who is extremely easy and sleeps around, after 5 weeks i got very sick, naseous, diarrhea, extreme fatigue white tongue you name it. Skin rashes and muscle aches. I went in yesterday to get a test from quest diagnostics (third generation) and it came back negative. I was wondering if i started ars at 5 weeks and tested at 9 weeks while symptoms of ARS were still going on if it is ARS would my test came back reactive. Or do people seroconvert after all symptoms disappear. Im going to go back at 12 weeks but im really uneasy.
Luffy by the way i searched through your posts too and even though you recieved oral sex from a positive partner that is a no risk scenario, i actually believe i had a rish because i am someone who never gets sick and what i had experienced at my 5th week was like nothing i had gone through before
Yeah luffy i saw it, i went through a million posts so i dont know where it is now, to be fair it was a post from 2005/2006
Oh good grief. "he has seen people turn positive after 9 weeks..." That's very old news. Maybe with older HIV tests, but certainly not with the standard tests currently used routinely. And even if it happens once in a million times, what does that matter??? Do you get more fearful of being hit by lightning when you read a news story of someone being struck?
You both are overreacting and need to suck it up and mellow out.
You both are overreacting and need to suck it up and mellow out.
Wait a minute dude, you mean Teak mentioned about people “turning positive after 9 weeks”? Please can I see a link where he stated that? Damned that freaked me out I’m getting my lab result tomorrow.
I hope your right. its just that i was going through older posts and obe of the other experienced posters here named TEAK who currently is living with Aids said in one of his posts where he has seen people turn positive after 9 weeks which completely bugged me out and stirred up my anxiety again
Yes.
Please re-read my original reply and concentrate on all of it. It was intended to be so reassuring you wouldn't even give it another thought. Think objectively, believe it, accept it, and move on without worry.
That's my last comment until and unless you decide to post the result of a final HIV test, if you do it.
Please re-read my original reply and concentrate on all of it. It was intended to be so reassuring you wouldn't even give it another thought. Think objectively, believe it, accept it, and move on without worry.
That's my last comment until and unless you decide to post the result of a final HIV test, if you do it.
So your saying if i had contracted HIV 5 weeks prior and started ars symptoms at 5 weeks and they even continued out into 9 weeks during my blood test at 9 weeks it would have been reactive?
"but we did it anally too". Don't obscess about the exposure itself. Even with anal sex, the transmission risk for a single event is one in several hundred; and as I said, the chance a partner like yours has HIV is very low. Anyway, your blood tests prove you weren't infected. You could have told me you had mainlined HIV positive blood, and I would still tell you to stop worrying.
Really, mellow out. There simply is no realistic chance you have HIV.
Really, mellow out. There simply is no realistic chance you have HIV.
There are many doctors who say 6 - 8 weeks with a 3rd gen test and you're done. Even the CDC has a statement that most people will generate antibodies between 2 - 8 weeks.
As far as using symptoms, well let's look at the classical view. Most people develop ARS at 2 - 4 weeks. And most people develop antibodies that are detectable by the 3rd gen test in 4 weeks. It's about 95%. So if you go by that, then if your symptoms were ARS then it would seem that you would already be detectable by a 3rd gen test.
ARS is actually the body fighting off an infection generating antibodies. I doubt by this, that whatever was going at week 5 was ARS.
Please tell your doctor about the 4th gen test. Even the CDC is now saying that a 4th gen test is the go-to test. It's just that doctors aren't using it. 4th gen has been used in the UK and other countries for 10 years. It's readily available in the US. Quest is a leader in 4th gen testing here in the US.
And many people consider a 4th gen conclusive at 4 weeks. If your doctor had given you a 4th gen test, which costs pretty much the same as a 3rd gen test, you would have already been in the clear.
But since it was 3rd gen, you have to repeat at 12 weeks to go by the book.
Be well
As far as using symptoms, well let's look at the classical view. Most people develop ARS at 2 - 4 weeks. And most people develop antibodies that are detectable by the 3rd gen test in 4 weeks. It's about 95%. So if you go by that, then if your symptoms were ARS then it would seem that you would already be detectable by a 3rd gen test.
ARS is actually the body fighting off an infection generating antibodies. I doubt by this, that whatever was going at week 5 was ARS.
Please tell your doctor about the 4th gen test. Even the CDC is now saying that a 4th gen test is the go-to test. It's just that doctors aren't using it. 4th gen has been used in the UK and other countries for 10 years. It's readily available in the US. Quest is a leader in 4th gen testing here in the US.
And many people consider a 4th gen conclusive at 4 weeks. If your doctor had given you a 4th gen test, which costs pretty much the same as a 3rd gen test, you would have already been in the clear.
But since it was 3rd gen, you have to repeat at 12 weeks to go by the book.
Be well
Yes but we did it anally too, and she bled a little during it. I know anal/blood contact is the number one way to contract HIV
You needn't be at all worried, for several reasons. 1) The chance a partner like you describe has HIV is very low, no mater how much she "sleeps around". 2) The chance of HIV transmission from vaginal sex, if the woman is infected, averges once for every 2,000 exposures. 3) Your symptoms started too late. ARS would have begun within 2-3 weeks. 4) The standard blood tests virtually always are positive by 9 weeks. 5) Finally, as you suggest yourself, the HIV antibody tests always are positive within 7-10 days of onset of ARS symptoms; and people do not seroconvert "after all symptoms disappear".
So if you go ahead with your plan for another test at 12 weeks, you can stay relaxed in the meantime. There is no chance it will be positive.
I hope that helps. Best wishes.
So if you go ahead with your plan for another test at 12 weeks, you can stay relaxed in the meantime. There is no chance it will be positive.
I hope that helps. Best wishes.
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