Elisa Positive---Western Blot Indetermiate

[unknown284]

Help! What does this mean?

H 1/O/2 1/11 High <1.00
Repeatedly Reactive



Western Blot

gp160 Absent
gp120 Absent
p65 Absent
p55 Absent
p51 Absent
gp 41 Absent
gp 40 Absent
p31 Absent
p24 absent
p18 equivocal

[ricky_id]

Doesn't matter, you're negative. Period.

If you have symptoms, work with a doctor. They have nothing to do with HIV given the WB result. Maybe you had another disease, but definitely not HIV because the virus wasn't there.

[unknown284]

Results still the same 5 weeks later... :(

[Teak]

You're welcome.

[unknown284]

Thanks!

[Teak]

No the WB trumps the Ab test.

[unknown284]

I meant 1.11 not 1/11.

Does this change anything?

[Teak]

Had you been positive your Western Blot would be positive and it isn't even close.

[unknown284]

So 1.11 would still be considered negative...why the heck do my lab results say "high"?

I could break down and cry right now...tears of pure joy!!!!

[Teak]

On the H 1/O/2 1/11  test you stated ,1.00 the cut off is 1
On the Western Blot you only have one band P18 which is not even considered. You didn't have a p120/p160 or a p24 or 41 which equals negative.

[unknown284]

@Nursegirl

Pregnancy Test Negative

[unknown284]

Thanks Vance 2335!

Teak:

May I ask how you interpret that as negative?

1.11High <1.00
Repeatedly Reactive?
With one antibody on Western Blot?

[Teak]

The results you have given are not a positive results. It is negative on both tests.

[Vance2335]

http://www.medhelp.org/posts/HIV-Prevention/Positive-Elisa---Indeterminate-Western-Blot/show/1492376

[Vance2335]

No, you can probably expect a negative result in follow up testing. If oyu go into the Expert Forum, Dr.Hook just answered a question very similar to your yesterday that you should find and read. It will give you more insite to this situation.

[nursegirl6572]

Are you by chance pregnant?  If so, it's not unlikely to have these kind of results.  It would be a false positive.

[unknown284]

It was just a routine OB/GYN visit.  Nothing actually prompted me to test.  My only partner tested negative 3 weeks prior to my test...

Is this a seroconversion pattern?

[Vance2335]

What was your risk that made you test?

[Vance2335]

It means that your initial test was positive but the confirmation test was not positive. Normally when this happens you will be asked to retest and the WB will come back negative.