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Question.. Teak please answer...
So Teak i have posted this question before so please dont be upset. Im 22 yr old hetero male. Jan 2005 i had unprotected vaginal sex and oral 3 times with female unknow hiv status. May 2007 i saw some lessions on arms and worried could be due to hiv symptoms so i finally decided to get tested. Will the results came i became more convinced i had hiv so i got physically sicker and sicker until i noticed my tongue turned white and i felt something stuck in my throat and skin became itchy so when i went for the orasura oral swab hiv antibody test results i was sure it would be positive but to my sursprise it was negative and felt instantly better and just to make sure asked for another hiv antibody test and that came back negative as well. I let it go and put it behind me and felt ok but my tongue stayed white, my throat still feels like something is stuck in there and my skin itchy and its october 2007. I did an hiv1/2 antibody test in sept 07 and that came back negative. I know most people would move on after that but i cant because i should mention for the last 2 years ive been drinking alot and im not sure but i think that alcohol lowers immune system. My questions are: Are my tests 100% conclusive? Is there a chance that if i where infected with hiv jan 05 that in may 07 my body couldve stopped making hiv antibodies so test could be false negatives due to heavy alcohol drinking for 2 years? Is it true that people with aids dont make hiv antibodies?
thanx teak for your advice. and i will be seeing a doctor on thursday to take care of and hopefully rid of my symptoms i described. Thanx for your patience everyone. and for know it seems yesterday for some reason i caught a sore throat, a cough and fever from time to time so that wont help my worrying.
NO, because you don't have HIV. See a doctor if you have a concern but it has nothing to do with HIV.
thanx to all for your quick responses. i feel i better. emotionally but the symptoms i mentioned are still there. and that is what scares me. cause ive heard persistent white coated tongue/oral thrush that lasts long, in my case over 4 months could be signs of advanced hiv and i dont know about the itchy skin i have. I dont think drinking alot of alcohol on the night before getting tested for hiv antibodies would affect the test results but you guys think drinking often and sometimes to much for 2 yrs would affect the viral load in a possitive person and the antibody creation?
2 years is enough to show antibodies and the body doesnot stop showing antibodies, hiv is virus that you carrie in your body so that means you were never infected by it since your test is negative
You reliably tested negative even if it was two years later. Alcohol consumption will not alter the test.
Absolutely no.
And please, dont ask for a paper who studied it.
If you insist, It would make me think the brain damage is irreversible!
And please, dont ask for a paper who studied it.
If you insist, It would make me think the brain damage is irreversible!
haha.... Thats funny stillworried74. you made my day. But unfurtonatly its true about the liver and brain. but do you don't think drinking alot would interact with or affect the creation of hiv antibodies if i did have hiv?
Drink a lot of alcohol for 2 years?
Not your inmune system, but your liver and brain for sure!
Not your inmune system, but your liver and brain for sure!
allthesigns i know that a 12-13 week test is conclusive but i waited over 2 years after my possible exposure to get tested and after that exposure havent had any sex and i have never done drugs in my life or needle sharing or anything else but i have during those 2 years partied and drank alot of alcohol so i was curious if heavy drinking for 2 years could help destroy an immune system in someone who is infected with hiv andd doesnt know it, to the point that they either go from hiv to aids in less then 3 years or there bodies stop making antibodies to fight hiv/aids due to heavy alcohol consumption but no one seems to know the answer to that and i know by memory that getting a test after 12-13 weeks is conclusive but not the answer/s to my question/s and i thought teak might know it.
Teak will tell you 2 years is more than enough time. All you needed was a test 12-13 weeks after exposure. Move on.
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