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Positive ELISA, indeterminate Westernblot
About a year ago I got tested for HIV. First ELISA or EIA (are these the same?) test came back preliminarily positive, second came back positive, so lab routinely did a Westernblot which came back "indeterminate." The Westernblot test revealed "non-specific staining obscuring bands in that region."
Doc told me to go get another test in one month. ELISA came back non-reactive/negative for both HIV-1 and HIV-2.
Should I trust these results? No sexual exposures prior to testing (at all) and no intravaneous drug use, whatsoever.
Doc told me to go get another test in one month. ELISA came back non-reactive/negative for both HIV-1 and HIV-2.
Should I trust these results? No sexual exposures prior to testing (at all) and no intravaneous drug use, whatsoever.
Thanks yo. No more posting. I posted once before, but I did not realize that the ELISA test came back positive so the lab had to do the Westernblot test and I was not sure about the "accuracy" when a situation like that happened. Thats a little scary to look at on paper.
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