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Can i say now that i am not hiv+ or hbv+ ? or need more
I have recently visited an internal medicine doctor, she asked me to do some blood analysis .... Cbc, ANAhep2 and a protein electrophoresis gel...... all of them were normal particulary the protein electrophoresis gel had a very normal shape. Doctor told me that you are fine and you have a healthy body and your symptomes are mainly psychosommatic .....and when i asked her about a possible chronic infection like hiv and hbv she told me that i should not worry about. the only potential exposure that i had (unprotected vaginal sex in legal brothel which supposed to be under control of public health) was more than 17 years ago (in 2001). Since 10 years i am experiencing CFS like symptoms, recurrent aphthous stomatitis and oral herpes 1
Thank you for answering.
Thank you for answering.
i said my SPEP with a risk since 17 years in addition to what my doctor said that i am not immunodeficient .... could i testing for hiv with more confidence ?
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ANY test you take for HIV right now will be 100% conclusive.
The range of serum protein we look for r albumin, alpha 1,2 beta and gamma.
Only an increase in gamma suggests polyclonal and monoclonal gammopathies.
Chronic infection cause increase in immunoglobin.
However, sometimes we miss the presence of m protein as it is too little to be detected.
What u need to know is that the tool to diagnose hiv is either looking for specific ag, ab, rna etc... None is related to this electrophoresis gel.
However, one tool for diagnosing the symptoms u r experiencing is to use this SPEP.
Since it happened 17 years ago, u would probably be dead if u have hiv.
Only an increase in gamma suggests polyclonal and monoclonal gammopathies.
Chronic infection cause increase in immunoglobin.
However, sometimes we miss the presence of m protein as it is too little to be detected.
What u need to know is that the tool to diagnose hiv is either looking for specific ag, ab, rna etc... None is related to this electrophoresis gel.
However, one tool for diagnosing the symptoms u r experiencing is to use this SPEP.
Since it happened 17 years ago, u would probably be dead if u have hiv.
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This forum only deals with HIV, so I'll answer that portion of the question: ONLY an HIV test can detect HIV. However, if your last risk event was in 2001, and you had contracted HIV from that event and had gone all this time without treatment, you would be extremely ill by now, if not deceased. You can test any time if you want peace of mind, but it is extremely unlikely that you have been infected with HIV for almost 18 years without knowing it.
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Thank you for answering me, however does a normal protein electrophoresis gel not sufficient ? any chronic infection like hiv, hbv or tuberculosis will normally lead to high plasmatic protein level and a polyclonal gammopatia
Reread about ONLY instead of asking the same thing again.
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