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********/test 9 weeks

Hope my english is good enough and clear, I´m from México.
I received an unprotected blow job on november the 7th from a person who I consider could be a potential risk of vih. It was not more than 20 seconds and ejaculated and didn´t want to know more, I stopped and didn´t want any more, nothing, absolutely nothing else happened.
I have not had life eversince, since I`m a apehensive and depressive person and who has read a lot before about hiv transmission. I have experienced many of the knowns sympthoms and went to specialist in HIV who told me it was a very, very low chance transmision option. Anyway, he ordered an inmediate test (to know how I was before and focus in this case) which was negative at 12 days. Dying inside with fear and blaming myself and suffering as never in my life, crying and yelling when alone, I took the hepatitis b and c at 32 days and was negative. and hiv again at 39 days (3 before 6 weks because doctor ordered since my state of mind) and negative again, feeling yet sympthoms that the doctor told me were not necesarily related to HIV, but he believed were associated to anxiety.
I could not avoid feeling bad in both ways, phisically and morally and let days pass by, until the specialist told me it was not ethical for him to advise me if he had no new information about my state. I had no other choice than go the lab again and test at 62 days, one day before completing the 9th week, almost fainting and vomiting before getting the result which was negative again.
The doctor gave me the next day a warm hug and told me those are real good news, and he kept on thinking I will be negative.
I found out the lab methods and resulted to be the most advanced not in my city, or state, but in the whole region of my country.
It´s an Architect Abbot Laboratory, authorized by USA health instances and it`s (don´t remeber very well) the 3rd or fourth generation and it`s a screening qualitative test, that seeks for HIV antigens and HIV 1 and HIV 2 antibodies. The lab chief told me that they have found cases of  HIV in the 10 first days of contact and that after 12, 39 and 62 days she does not see any reason to test at 12 or 13 weeks, but maybe, just maybe, at 6 months, because the system they use reduces the window period. She thinks I`m clean...what do you think about it sirs? and thanks for paying me attention.


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Thanks Teak, I appreciate you consider me I´m clean, but anyway I`d really be very thankful if you would, please be so gentle to answer the last question posted (by the way the Architect Abbot Laboratory was aporoved by FDA past june 2010) and excuse me sir for being reiterative. Thanks again.
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You never had an exposure and didn't need testing for HIV.
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Anyway Teak, based in your experience how often a negative can change after nine whole weeks in a lab system which seeks for P24 antigen and VIH 1 and VIH 2 antibodies?
Thanks a lot for your atention.
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You never had an exposure and didn't need testing for HIV.
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