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HIV - ELISA - MEIA test query
I had a risky encounter (well risky by paranoia standards) 6 months back. I waited for the long window period to get as accurate a test as possible and avoid false negatives.
I walked into a hospital and got a test yesterday. The results say "anti-bodies to HIV - Non Reactive" with a reading of 0.274. The report classifies values within 0.9-0.99 as intermediate and values greater than 1 as reactive.
Now this is a MEIA test while I asked for a ELISA and and receipt says "Test for HIV I&II ELISA". AFAIK Elisa test takes a few days to 2 weeks to test. I got my test results within 24 hours of the test. I have visited the premier hospital in my city.
Am not sure . . . is it time for me to breather easy. . . or is there any other test I should go for. Am quite a paranoid hypochondriac. I have had no symptoms in the past 6 months which would be construed as HIV related.
Your help would be highly appreciated and relieve me of great tension and depression.
Thanks.
I walked into a hospital and got a test yesterday. The results say "anti-bodies to HIV - Non Reactive" with a reading of 0.274. The report classifies values within 0.9-0.99 as intermediate and values greater than 1 as reactive.
Now this is a MEIA test while I asked for a ELISA and and receipt says "Test for HIV I&II ELISA". AFAIK Elisa test takes a few days to 2 weeks to test. I got my test results within 24 hours of the test. I have visited the premier hospital in my city.
Am not sure . . . is it time for me to breather easy. . . or is there any other test I should go for. Am quite a paranoid hypochondriac. I have had no symptoms in the past 6 months which would be construed as HIV related.
Your help would be highly appreciated and relieve me of great tension and depression.
Thanks.
thanks a lot for you help guys. really appreciate it. taken a load of my mind.
cheers!
cheers!
ELISA, MEIA. and MEA tests are all the same tests. You never had a risk and didn't need testing.
well . . . it was it a stranger. While i used a condom, i had a slight skin abrasion on my testicle sac. as i said I am quite a paranoid person as it is.
But my query is largely about the test conducted. Is the MEIA test result that I received within 24 hours reliable? Because I was under the impression ELISA takes several days and up to 2 weeks. Also initial Google-ing seems to suggest that ELISA and MEIA are one and the same. So am worried about how I got my test results this quickly.
But my query is largely about the test conducted. Is the MEIA test result that I received within 24 hours reliable? Because I was under the impression ELISA takes several days and up to 2 weeks. Also initial Google-ing seems to suggest that ELISA and MEIA are one and the same. So am worried about how I got my test results this quickly.
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