ARS after 6 days?

[jaysterchanster]

Hey all.  I feel like there's a chance that I might have made a huge mistake and given my gf HIV.  Here it is in a nutshell.  My last exposure was a little under 10 weeks ago.  I had protected oral AND vaginal sex with a sex worker.  Stupidly, I didn't ask her HIV status.  Anyway, a couple weeks ago, I took an 8 week Oraquick test.  Results were negative.  Before that, I took a ELISA blood test 6 weeks post expsure and that was negative and a PCR DNA test / ELISA 2 weeks after the exposure and that came back negative too.  Per the doctor's advice, after the 8 week test I put my worries to rest.  However, 6 days ago, I had unprotected sex with a girl that I'm dating.  Last night, she came down with a fever and sore throat.  So now I'm worried that she's experiencing ARS symptoms.  Please advise?  Can ARS show up that soon?

[ECN44120]

Yes that is what I said in the las line, that for being 100% sure he needs 12 week = 3 Month test to be 100% sure

[Teak]

He needs to take the 3 month test anyway because there are no test that will give you a conclusive negative test before 3 months.

[ECN44120]

Poor jay now he is more confused than before posting, so do I, please jay, ask one of the dr. to ***** your specific risk, and then you will have the answer yo needed.

My opinion is that if you had protected oral and vaginal sex and the condom didnt broke, your exposure was indeed protected so by the Drs. advice you test wasnt even warranted, since you have tested several times the last one 8 week I`ll repost a Dr. Answer

but here's one more fact that might be helpful- at eight weeks over 98% of tests that are going to be positive will be, thus unless you are at extraordinarily high risk, my tendency is to agree with the Spanish MD and tell you that you have nothing to worry about and do not need further testing (NOTE you where at a very very small risk)

Another Drs Post.

You had a single exposure to a commercial sex worker (CSW).  Your chances of having gotten HIV from this exposure are extraordinarily low.  Here's why:

1,  Chances are, your partner did not have HIV.  Most CSWs do not.
2.  Your chance of getting HIV, if she was infected is less than one in 1000 per exposure.
3.  You have had an HIV test at 5 weeks.  After 5 weeks between 85 and 90% of tests that are going to become positive will have.

When you put all of these facts together, your chances of being infected from the exposure you describe is less than one 100th of 1%.  If you get retested in the future, you will be a little bit, but not much more sure that you are not infected.  If I were you I would take the results I have, forget about your risk of having gotten infected and move on with your life.  I would not get further testing.  EWH

I hope this help you Jay, anyway if you are not comfort with less than 100th of 1%, like 0,01% (99,99% sure) take the 12 week test and get 100% sure you are negative.

[Teak]

I have had friends that have had ARS but for myself I didn't have ARS. That is why you will always be told to forget about symptoms. HIV has no specific symptoms and not all people will have ARS.

[worriedman402]

also did this person you know have ARS? If so, how many weeks did that take?Thanks

[juvimumu]

So.. accordingly to you, docs give wrong advices ... they say ~100% at 8 weeks but you have seen a lot of people testing poz after 8 weeks.. why dont you get into a dicussion with the doctors?? (im not trying to arguee, but you have to understand that information you give is different that the docs give, and thats something to worry about)

besides all the dual and distortioned info that one could get from different web pages, its very hard when in the SAME page you get that dual information...