Hello,
Thank you for your post.
Symptoms are not really relevant if worried about HIV sero-conversion, as they are not specific. In any case your symptoms are not typical and do not seem to correlate with HIV sero-conversion. Make sure that you get also tested for the common STDs.
Regarding your tests, a PCR DNA test at 9 days is not considered conclusive, with possibly a reliability of less than 94%. Because of this, we do not carry out this test anymore, and we prefer to use the PCR RNA test with a reliability of over 99%. A Duo test at 19 days, even though highly reassuring, it is not conclusive either and you would need to have it repeated after 28 days. The fact that you had a negative result after having had those symptoms, that would exclude that these symptoms have anything to do with HIV sero-conversion.
Best wishes,
Dr José
just have a duo at 28 days followed by an antibody test at 12 weeks. pcrrna tests are not even approved for diagnosing hiv
by the way I took an oraquik test and it was negative..thank goodness
when could I be considered free and clear of hiv?