Hi,
Just like to start by saying that your site has been very useful and comforting during a very worrying time - it must be a huge help to a lot of people.
I had a fairly low risk encounter 7 weeks ago with a sex worker, me giving her oral sex. Though I notice afterwards that my tongue had an open abrasion on it.
I have been worried about HIV, when my Lymph nodes in my neck became slightly swollen. I also developed a bit of a rash on the top of one arm, not sure though what the rash associated with HIV should look like - this was after about 6 weeks.
I have tested myself twice at 6 weeks with a diy test kit - the type which shows the red lines after 15 min. Both proved negative. My main question is how reliable are these kits?. I ordered from a company with a link on this site, and the literature with the kit claims that it is as accurate and as sensitive as an EIA test. I dont think this question has been raised before on the forums.
Im going for a test this week at the clinic just to make sure, this will be at 7 weeks from exposure. I gather from the forums that the current thinking is that 99 percent of people test positive at 6 weeks..can I rely on this test that Im negative?.
Thanks again for a great site, and apologies if some of my questions may have already been answered in the past.
Yours..worried in UK