Not everyone who gets HIV develops symptoms but those who do tyically develop antibodies within a week of the beginning of symptoms. EWH
Thank you doctor, just for my knowledge, is this why they say that 6 week is a good time to test, because if someone gets his symptom at 4 week (because they say ars comes at 2-4 week as i read), so it takes aproximative 10 days to appear (antibodys) in the blood?
Thank you doctor, and i won't ask any other questions,
No, stress/anxiety would not effect your ability to make antibodies and, in this way make you test inaccurate. Believe the tests- they are very good. EWH
Doctor, im the one who wrote this, medhelp disabled my account dont know why, so i couldnot write back. so i did this one here.
Just to come back on it,
Can stress afect the imune system to the point to not get detected at 5 week? (Normally i dont get sick often). After all these symptoms, i got really scared, i know that the immune systeme is weakened after stressing alot, and i havent been sleeping since my symptom went away, consediring i got the flu (ars) and stressed that much, could this have made me not create enough antibody that make this appear in the 36 days?
Thank you doctor
Welcome to the Forum. following anal sex with an HIV infected sex partner, your risk for infection is 1 in 100 (1%), thus the odds are in your favor that you would not get infected. furthermore, if she was on therapy, your risk for infection was even lower still.
The flu-like illness you describe was not HIV. I say this with confidence as when these sorts of symptoms occur in early HIV, they are due to the reaction of the virus with antibodies that are beginning to form. As a result, if your symptoms had been due to HIV, your blood test would have been positive a week following the beginning of your symptoms. That you did not have a positive test on day 36 is strong evidence that you r symptoms were not due to HIV. That you had the flu a little while later would have no effect on your antibody development
Since your 36 day test was 36 days after exposure and some people (but not many) can take as long as 8 weeks to develop a positive test, there is a very small chance that you still could have gotten HIV but it is very, very small. I would suggest another test at day 56 of beyond to be entirely sure you were not infected. I would be surprised if you were.
Hope this helps. EWH