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Dobber21, Anyone...throw me a bone!
Dob,
Come on now man...you know I've been good over the past couple of weeks. I just want to know when "my" testing will be final - risk or no risk! I'm testing based on my symptoms and the fact the doc asked me if i had been exposed to HIV recently not the fact that i made out with a stripper and had genital rubbing with a chic. Trust me, I know the odds - I know it all - but I just want to be sure I didn't get HIV from this "freakish" exposure. Is that too much to ask? I'm not nearly as nervous as I was a few weeks ago - in fact, I have NOT tested since week 8 and I'm planning on getting a "FINAL" NEGATIVE (i hope) test at 3 months. I just want to know that I can stop testing after 3 months because the neurologist said I may have had a mild case of Guillain Barre Syndrome which is an autoimmune disorder accompanied with my tingling and rashes I'm getting allover my body - especially my face - I also have 2 HUGE mouth ulcers - I just want to know that GBS wouldn't delay seroconversion and finally put this HIV thing behind me. I'm not trying to make anyone mad by reposting. I see a lot of people posting about things like deep kissing and sticking bottles up anuses and what have you WITHOUT any symptoms afterward and everyone is taking them seriously and treating them like they aren't crazy - unlike me. Listen, I don't want to repeat myself...I just respect and knowledge from everyone here so that I can hopefully gather a 3 month HIV negative and believe that I can put it behind me....
Is that too much to ask?
Also,
I read on the body - that Dr. Bob recommends testing out to SIX months if you had been exposed to a KNOWN HIV POSITIVE partner. How am I supposed to know? She was a vegas stripper from the Czech Republic. Should I assume she had it because she was a stripper? It seems like they would be "higher" risk than a normal gal...yeah?
Come on now man...you know I've been good over the past couple of weeks. I just want to know when "my" testing will be final - risk or no risk! I'm testing based on my symptoms and the fact the doc asked me if i had been exposed to HIV recently not the fact that i made out with a stripper and had genital rubbing with a chic. Trust me, I know the odds - I know it all - but I just want to be sure I didn't get HIV from this "freakish" exposure. Is that too much to ask? I'm not nearly as nervous as I was a few weeks ago - in fact, I have NOT tested since week 8 and I'm planning on getting a "FINAL" NEGATIVE (i hope) test at 3 months. I just want to know that I can stop testing after 3 months because the neurologist said I may have had a mild case of Guillain Barre Syndrome which is an autoimmune disorder accompanied with my tingling and rashes I'm getting allover my body - especially my face - I also have 2 HUGE mouth ulcers - I just want to know that GBS wouldn't delay seroconversion and finally put this HIV thing behind me. I'm not trying to make anyone mad by reposting. I see a lot of people posting about things like deep kissing and sticking bottles up anuses and what have you WITHOUT any symptoms afterward and everyone is taking them seriously and treating them like they aren't crazy - unlike me. Listen, I don't want to repeat myself...I just respect and knowledge from everyone here so that I can hopefully gather a 3 month HIV negative and believe that I can put it behind me....
Is that too much to ask?
Also,
I read on the body - that Dr. Bob recommends testing out to SIX months if you had been exposed to a KNOWN HIV POSITIVE partner. How am I supposed to know? She was a vegas stripper from the Czech Republic. Should I assume she had it because she was a stripper? It seems like they would be "higher" risk than a normal gal...yeah?
You would have had a conclusive test 5 seconds after your "exposure." Why? You had zero risk and you know it. If you read about 3/4 of the posts on this board you would know that.
They have to recommend a 6 month followup because its the difference between 99.9% and 100%, Read this post from an expert where he sais that 3 month testing is 99.9% accurate.
http://www.thebody.com/Forums/AIDS/SafeSex/Archive/Testing/Q83872.html
http://www.thebody.com/Forums/AIDS/SafeSex/Archive/Testing/Q83872.html
Doctor Bob also hasn't seen a negative 3 month test turn positive in Many years, his advice is very by the book.
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