Dear Dr,
I have recently started a serious relationship with a new girlfriend and we want to have unprotected sex, thus we wanted to clear the past events, and we both took 4th generation DUO Ag/Ab test from Labcorp. Both came back negative. However, my recent events' dates are confusing my girlfriend and she wanted me to ask this here. My past events relative to the DUO test are:
6 months and before: protected vaginal sex with several women.
6 weeks before: unprotected receptive oral sex from an unknown white woman.
24 days before: unprotected handjob (lasted 15 min) from an asian in a massage parlour.
Now, we know that you take a DUO at 28 days as conclusive. My girlfriend thinks that I took the test so soon considering the handjob performed on me 24 days before. Here are our related questions, and we will be glad if you can comment on these:
1- I read that even an antibody test is around 90% sensitive around 24 days, what is the sensitivity of a DUO at 24 days?
2- considering I am a healthy male and my immune system response should not be delayed, is the 24 day DUO as good as 28 day DUO?
3- does the DUO clear me from all these events, including the handjob, and can I safely engage in unprotected sex with my girlfriend?
4- lastly, as an expert in this field, would you be 100% comfortable if you were in my situation with these events and test result, and would you forget all and comfortably engage unprotected sex with your girlfriend?
Thanks a lot for your answers beforehand, we both appreciate the work you do here.