11 week post-pep duo - improper testing??

[gangaroo]

I am at 11 weeks post-pep (last dose Feb 13 2017) and went for a blood draw at an NGO clinic.

The person didnt speak much english (living abroad in eastern europe now) but told me the test was 4th generation antibody/antigen (yay!) however they also offered me a syphilis test. Of course I would rather be safe than sorry so I said yes.

The thing that bothered me - she took my blood into a container, unscrewed the container (insert my straight face internally screaming here), used a pipette to take a sample of that blood, and drop it onto a rapid syphilis test. She put the cap back on my blood vial, put it on the shelf, then I was told to come back next tuesday for results (high volume waiting room at the time)

I know from my many frantic searches over the years that HIV virus is rendered useless /noninfectable / 'dead' after some exposure to air.

*Will the test pick up the p24 antigen after exposure to oxygen? and antibodies too?*

I am worried that not only was it exposed to air and put aside for later, but also a pipette was inserted into the sample.... could foreign particles alter the test results (a la false positive aka worst nightmare?)

I want to trust this test and move on. I have a rapid oraquick saliva test next to me but I want to do this right.

Thanks

[gangaroo]

my 11.5 week blood draw was negative, as was my 81 day (2 days after blood draw) oraquick!

[CurfewX]

Congratulations!  You can now move on with your life knowing that you did not get HIV from this encounter.

[gangaroo]

Thank you for your time and patience, you are very much appreciated by this worry wart!

[CurfewX]

You're welcome!  Be well, and use protection :)

[gangaroo]

Will I have a good chance of remaining negative since I tested negative 7 weeks post PEP, with a 4th generation duo test?
Thanks

[AnxiousNoMore]

Below is what Curfew said so no purpose in continuing to ask the same question as if Curfew will later say that it wasn't final.

"Collect your result on Tuesday and be confident that it is final."

[gangaroo]

Sorry AnxiousNoMore, I appreciate your responses but it seems like you aren't reading what I am actually writing (re: my risk mentioned in my last post and now this question). I am not asking if it is final and conclusive, I am asking if a Negative 7 week duo post PEP is likely to remain negative at 11 weeks (which I already took and will be picking up on Tuesday).

[CurfewX]

Likely? Yes.  Certainly? No.  There really isn't any info beyond this that I can offer.

[AnxiousNoMore]

What was your risk?

[gangaroo]

Well this is a question about the test, but my risk that constituted PEP was a condom failure that was only noticed far too late when the damage was done.

[AnxiousNoMore]

I noticed this in one of your other posts, so was just checking.

"Hi all,
I had just started getting over my HIV anxiety as a crazy worried well with non exposures.."

[gangaroo]

the next sentence in that post is ".... when I actually finally had a real one. Condom failure with a partner who then failed to notify me of it until it was too late" :-) I am working on it. Just trying to get through this last test and move on.

[CurfewX]

It loses its ability to INFECT, not to be present and detectable.   Antibodies would still be present, and your test results won't be altered by the pipette insertion.  Antigens, hard to tell, because that's a timing issue.  But antibodies, yes.  Collect your result on Tuesday and be confident that it is final.

[gangaroo]

thank you, I didn't think of it that way. Thank you again for the reassurance.