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Oraquick home test false negative
What are the causes of false negative in oraquick home test? They said false negative happen 1 in every 12 in oraquick test. What could cause this?
Is it the test itself or People doing it wrong way? I mean if we test it after window period.
Is it the test itself or People doing it wrong way? I mean if we test it after window period.
If you tested with a Western Blot after your positive rapid test and you received a negative Western Blot at 3 months. Then the Western Blot trumps the positive tests you've received.
I have many test after false positive finger prick rapid test. Since then I have tested from pcr , wb, eia, cmia., oral test . But what concern me is I still have symptom and I still test positive with those rapid test. So I dont know which to believe now.
Since I tested wb I was gonna move on but after that I experienced hiv symptoms so I think I could get infected from testing from either fringer prick lancet (I didnt see him get new one from box I saw it was on the table ) or reused needle which I tested in thailand. Now I have tested oraquick for 4-5 times 3 weeks apart.
Since I tested wb I was gonna move on but after that I experienced hiv symptoms so I think I could get infected from testing from either fringer prick lancet (I didnt see him get new one from box I saw it was on the table ) or reused needle which I tested in thailand. Now I have tested oraquick for 4-5 times 3 weeks apart.
Those things are extremly temperamental, I took one in my car while driving to work, didnt time it and accidentally touched the oral swab part. When I finally looked at it only the Control had gone across. When I look closer you could see a faint red near the T but not going across, just a slight speck of red. I immediately went to Walgreens bought another one and followed the instructions word for word and I got a negative, but I was still scared I got a IMCA test the same day and it was negative. Take my advice to mess with those things go get a blood test.
But i read in oraquick insert package they said in study shown that they test HIV positive people with this test . Found 8% false negative. They didn't say invalid result. It might be sometime they hide from us.
But the test has control line. If people doing it wrong way Instead of reading negative result it would be invalid result then.
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