Possible false positive HIV?

[tweetypie2490]

Okay, so I have been worrying about Hiv for some time and I have been far to scared to get tested, however I finally plucked up the courage and made an appointment which is tomorrow. My concern is that I have just developed a bit of tonsilitis and I was wondering if having a virus currently in my system might cause an hiv test to give a positive result?

[tweetypie2490]

I had the test and it came back negative thankfully.

Thanks for all your help. X

[Vance2335]

Start your own thread if you have a HIV risk assestment question.

[tweetypie2490]

Thanks for the reassurance. I hope that also applies in my case too.I'm not sure if they will do a rapid test tomorrow or a ordinary blood test to send away, either way I will let you know the result.

[blackjojo]

Dear vance, can i add up one more question?
Expects and doctors in the forum say that sexual transmitted hiv happens only when a unprotected penis is inside a vaginal or anal. But why cdc or WHO can not post this kind of words?

[Vance2335]

By the way I have read this hundreds of times and never had anyone come back and say they tested positive, "It seems like too much to expect them all to be a coincidence though!"

[Vance2335]

Symptoms mean nothign when it comes to HIV.

[tweetypie2490]

Thanks for the replies, I hope so too! A few months ago I had symptoms which were night sweats, muscle and joint pain, upper abdominal pains, nausea, loss of appetite, weight loss, extreme thirst/dry mouth, pins and needles in hamds and oral thrush...also my nail beds turned pail. The oral thrush and pale nail beds are still a problem. These symptoms started less than a week after unprotected sex and continued to get worse over the course of around 3 weeks.

I would just like to ,mention before going any further that before the unprotected sex I had a few of these symptoms quite mildly, the night sweats, muscle aches, nausea and dry mouth and pins and needles, these symptoms disappeared about a week before the unprotected sex.

So I'm trying to reassure myself that the symptoms were probably related to whatever was making me feel unwell in the first instance,  however, when talking to the man I had slept with about feeling unwell he mentioned that he had thought he had Lyme disease because he found a ringed rash, fatigue and was quite forgetful. So now I'm totally freaked that his rash etc was hiv and that now I have it!

I had been to the doctors on a number of occasions and all my bloods were coming back normal, so they couldn't tell me what was up. So obviously this combination of events etc is really concerning me. I realise how much of an idiot I was and I kick myself every day for making such a stupid decision that night!

I feel like it would have to take a miracle for this result to be negative. The only hope I have is that I didn't experience the fever, rash, sore throat or headaches which are frequently mentioned as  initial symptoms, that my symptoms were caused by something else and that his symptoms were also caused by something else. It seems like too much to expect them all to be a coincidence though!

[chipdawg]

this won't affect your hiv test result. hope you get a good result.

[Vance2335]

No it would not. False positives do happen but when a positive test happens a WB is then done as confirmation.

[1234sam]

what was your activated that made u sacred of HIV