can a positive Lymes Disease Test affect your HIV results? If my Lymes test are both positive could this be false? and I might have HIV? it hasn't been 3 months. but after 2 weeks I tested negative for HIV on the ELISHA test.... omg this has gotten me even more worked up.
I have had symptoms after my recent exposure of unprotected sex with my ex-boyfriend but my tests are the other way around. I was tested for Lymes ELISHA came back postitive and so did the WESTERN BLOT test on Lymes... I got tested for HIV too since I have read what you read and it has only been after 2 weeks of my last unprotected sexual encounter but the test is negative. Im going crazy knowing this test is not conclusive yet and that I could have it considering the Lyme results and tests... because I have no recollection of a tick "bite" or "rash" but have had Tonsilitious, cough and swollen glands in neck.
Teak you probably think this was me...it wasn't my questions were different yet regarding similar topics...
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The Western Blot is the confirmatory test. If your Western Blots have been continually neg...then chances are...you do NOT have HIV. However, you should follow up with an ID doctor to be sure.
Also...FYI.....you don't get symptoms of "AIDS" if you are newly infected with HIV...you should know that! AIDS is later in the stage of infection when an HIV+ person becomes susceptible to opportunistic infections, and whose lab work indicates that they have progressed to "AIDS" classification.
There is a correlation between the Lymes reactions and HIV...but I am unversed in all that...hence why it is a good idea to f/u with an ID doctor. This is why WB's are done....to rule out...or confirm infection.