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Question Regarding Oraquick

Greetings all-

I have a couple of questions about Oraquick In Home Oral Swab testing that I'm hoping you can help me with.

My exposure was receptive anal (bottom) with an unknown individual. It was initially protected but the condom broke and so his penis was inside of me for probably 3 minutes unprotected.

I took Oraquick oral swab tests at home at 49 days (7 weeks) and 77 days (11 weeks). I was hoping the 11 week test could be done at 12 weeks but unfortunately miscounted and was a week premature. Both results were negative.

So my questions:
1. Is 2 negatives with the Oraquick Oral Swab test at 7 and 11 weeks enough for me to consider myself conclusively negative and move on? Or should I test again?

2. About 45m before taking the 11 week test I was at the bar and had had a beer. I did not eat or drink anything for 45m before the test but am wondering if the fact that I did have alcohol 45m before the test would've impacted it in anyway? Package says 30m so I think I'm OK but I just want to be sure since it was alcohol that I had drank.

I have had some strange symptoms on my tongue that have persisted since the incident so I am being driven to doubt, but I know they are unreliable so won't get into them - just wanted to provide the context for the question.

Thanks!
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Symptoms can be from anything including psychosomatic that seem real so HIV doc don't pay attention to them as you know so there is no context to get.
Whatever the pack says is the correct way to test and no one here will override the instructions.
A 4th gen test is conclusive at 28 days but I think you need 3 months for Oraquick. Someone else will likely post the correct interval.
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I didn't see Ruby's post so ignore mine.
370181 tn?1595629445
You can consider your 11 week test as conclusive. The alcohol would NOT have affected the results in any way.
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