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weakly reactive rapid test
Hello,
Some of you might remember me from 6 months ago, my exposure was with csw and negative tests out to 6 months, at the end I was still not convinced that i am hiv free. Last month I got drunk with my frnds and told them about it they took me back there and I did the same mistake again. After 11 days I got flu like symptoms with diarrhea and a few pink spots on my stomach. Next day I ordered a PCR from labcorp which I am still waiting on... They have not sent a result yet! So I went out and got a rapid test and it showed a weakly reactive result... twice! They took my blood sample for western blot.... any suggestions? My exposure was full massage and protected oral/vaginal but I had 2/3 sores diagnosed as folliculitis by a dermatologist. Thanks...
Some of you might remember me from 6 months ago, my exposure was with csw and negative tests out to 6 months, at the end I was still not convinced that i am hiv free. Last month I got drunk with my frnds and told them about it they took me back there and I did the same mistake again. After 11 days I got flu like symptoms with diarrhea and a few pink spots on my stomach. Next day I ordered a PCR from labcorp which I am still waiting on... They have not sent a result yet! So I went out and got a rapid test and it showed a weakly reactive result... twice! They took my blood sample for western blot.... any suggestions? My exposure was full massage and protected oral/vaginal but I had 2/3 sores diagnosed as folliculitis by a dermatologist. Thanks...
No it doesn't mean if you have a normal immune system it takes longer to detect antibodies.
It's drugs that cause people to have a delay in their antibody production.
It's drugs that cause people to have a delay in their antibody production.
Zimmerman... I read his first exposure and he was protected in that exposure as well; so he didn't have a risk for either
Teak...
Zimmermann says
"doesnt matter. if your cd 4 count was high or normall than you could still be infected. usually that means your immune is doing ok fighting the virus. even if you had a pcr rna with a normall or high cd4 could cause the viral to be undected. lots of poeple test pos after six months, due to there immune system. not lots but it does happen. "
indicating that if you have a strong immune system it could take longer for you to test positive...
Is that true??
(now I am concerned about my negative results at 10 weeks... still going back when I get home)
Teak...
Zimmermann says
"doesnt matter. if your cd 4 count was high or normall than you could still be infected. usually that means your immune is doing ok fighting the virus. even if you had a pcr rna with a normall or high cd4 could cause the viral to be undected. lots of poeple test pos after six months, due to there immune system. not lots but it does happen. "
indicating that if you have a strong immune system it could take longer for you to test positive...
Is that true??
(now I am concerned about my negative results at 10 weeks... still going back when I get home)
anyone here who got a weakly reactive rapid test twice which turned out to be false positive? thanks....
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