Anxiety taking over or justified fear?

[StallionDragoon]

Hello, everyone!  I've been anxious about some tests I had done.  I was joyous when I got back the results but that joy was short lived because of what I'am about to explain.

I recently had some STD testing done.  All came back negative.  Here's the results:

HIV Rapid test: NEGATIVE
HIV Viral Load: NEGATIVE
Chlamydia(Urine): NEGATIVE
Gonorrhea(Urine): NEGATIVE
Gonorrhea(Oral): NEGATIVE

Here's the problem, at no point did anyone swab my mouth for anything, so why would it say, "Gonorrhea(Oral): NEGATIVE?"

I called them up, and asked if Gonorrhea is "system-wide" and that through urine they would be able to tell if I had it in my mouth.  They said, "No, it's not."  They also asked, "Are you sure a throat culture wasn't done?"  It's obvious that there was a mix up.  He said, "Perhaps, JohnDoe(tester) took an empty swab template and sent it in by accident.  It's the only thing I can think of."  He went on to assure me that I'am definetly negative for the things that I tested for, but how can I be so sure?  

What's worse is that I asked something that perhaps I shouldn't have.  I asked, "I know you can't answer this but did anybody test positive for anything that day?"  I thought he was going to say, "I can't do that."  Instead he took time to look, and came back with a "Look, I can tell you that you're negative for the things you tested for."  I can't explain how it sounded but if you would have heard it you could have telled by his reply and sound that someone did test positive that day.  

I'am currently being seen by a psychologist to address my phobias, and hypochondria.  I don't know what to believe anymore.  I'm scared, and constantly thinking.  It's caused a lot of stress and physical pain(Join pain, aches, etc.)  I'm confused as to what to believe, if they screwed one thing up, who is to say they didn't screw my whole test results and mine was mixed up with someone else?  Opinions?  Anxiety talking or perhaps not?

[lilymoon]

I think its anxiety talking,youre taking one thing that went wrong and getting paranoid it all went wrong.You could have it done again to make sure but i wonder if youd believe it then?its horrible to get so anxious i know...lily

[StallionDragoon]

I am in the process of talking to a psychologist.  The intern, SW, or whatever under her is the one that's been seeing me thus far.  But I will ask to talk to the psychologist directly.  Right now my physical well being is my utmost concern, but I cannot act as if my mental well being has been jeopordized through my years.  I know once I retest I'll be alright.  

[nursegirl6572]

Mistakes are sometimes made.  Rare, but it happens.

To ease your mind, simply return to the clinic and ask to be re-tested.

My guess is the "oral" result got erroneously added to your report, rather than the scenario you're worried about, which is that the lab mixed up the specimens of patients.  That's almost impossible.  Usually specimens are labelled BEFORE or immediately after collection.

Just get retested and accept your results.

If your anxiety continues to be an issue for you, you may want to address it.