Syphilis Confusion

[Mainman28]

Hello I am a 28 year old straight male who had an unprotected sexual encounter with a woman I didn't know that well around December 13th 2009. I got tested for Chlymedia, Ghonnerea, HIV and Syphilis in early February 2010 like the 1st week of February at a nearby Planned Parenthood. I tested negative for eveything, then around mid April 2010, 2nd week of April, I retested again for all four STD's at my school's Health Center and again everything came back negative. It's now June 2010 and on the 9th of this month I went back to Planned parenthood and retested for all four STD's once more. I tested negative for HIV, Chymedia and Ghonnerea, but the doctor said something about me being negative for Syphilis but that something about a very low protein related to Syphilis was detected. She told me to walk away believing that I'm negative but to go back in 30 days for a rescreening. So I'm confused do I have syphilis or not? I will most definitly go back for another test. I have not had another sexual encounter since the December 12th 2009 encounter. Wouldn't the syphilis test I took in mid April had been a long enough window period to detect the antibodies for syphilies. If not should I also be worried about the HIV window period too, The one in mid April was about 3 1/2 months and the one in June was about 5 1/2 months closer to 6 months actually. I don't have any symptoms and I spoke with the woman I had the encounter with and she said she was clean and gets tested every 4 months. I'm just really worried and confused now. Especially about the HIV test. Oh the doctor said something about diseases like Lupus can cause this confusion, but to my knowledge I don't have Lupus.

[Vance2335]

I see no reason why she ia asking for a retest...6 weeks is the conclusive time frame for syphilis so you have over tested and if you had syphilis you would have noticed stage 1 a long time ago that would have been a big sore on your penis.

HIV is conclusive at 3 months. I personally think you are being given some misguided info on syphilis by that nurse.

[Mainman28]

So do you think the doctor want's me to rescreen in 30 days just to be safe or see if it's an early an early infection. She said it was negative but low amounts of protein related to syphilis were detected so I don't really understand what that means. So I'm negative but not really? She said pregnancy and diseases like Lupus often affect the syphilis test, well I'm a man so I'm not pregnant so is she implying that I have Lupus? I thought the 3 1/2 month test was a strong enough indicater that I was negative, I guess not. Now iIhope the 3 1/2 and 5 1/2 month HIV test holds up.

[Vance2335]

Your april tests were conclusive, you do not have syphilis and you don't have HIV.