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Regarding Hiv

I had an exposure on 16th july 2017. It was safe as i used condoms but i licked the clitoria once. On 29th july i fell sick with sore throat, fever, cough. I hospitalized and get antibiotics for 14 days. There all my tests are normal for fever like maleria, typhiod, etc. I have gone through for hiv 1 & 2 screen test on day 20 & 22 which were negative. Then on day 25th for hiv rna pcr test which was negative. On day 50 for elisa test again negative. On day 63 means after nine weeks it was again negative. Now i want to now what is my hiv status. Index value was .03, .04 between two tests. Now for how long should i worry for hiv. Should i go for western blot test after 3 months. I am from india. Please guide me.
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You correctly stated that you had no risk so no reason to ever test. Your repeated negative tests indicate a HIV phobia, so your problem isn't disease, it is mentally not accepting the science. Consider therapy to try to get relief from this phobia.
HIV is instantly inactivated in air and also in saliva which means it is effectively dead so it can't infect from oral licking. It doesn't matter if you and they were bleeding at the time either because it is effectively dead.
Only adult risks are unprotected penetrating vaginal or anal sex or sharing needles that you inject with.
Even with blood, lactation cuts, rashes, burns etc air does not allow inactivated virus to infect from touching HIV or from oral activity. The above HIV science is 40 years old and very well established so nothing you can add will make it a risk.
You interact with others so colds and flu are to be expected at any time in your life so there is no purpose trying to connect your flu with HIV.
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Thanks for you reply sir. Actually here doctors are saying that there should be a confirmatory test after 3 months. At present my fever is ok but i am feeling a great fatigue in my body and i am already a immuno deficent patient with wbc between 2200 to 2800 only from last 10 years. My bone marrow test was ok. Doctors said this is drug induced. Actually i have very weak digestion and gut. So hyper acidity and gerd problem is regular. As per your reply, i am feeling very comfortable that i am not the case of hiv. My last doubt once again that is it possible that after 6 months it becomes active means hiv virus or these tests senstivity is more reliable for hiv. As on google i read Hiv RNA Pcr can detect after 10 to 12 days where as i had tested for this on 25th day which was negative. Please try to understand my phobia because Hiv is so dangours diesase.
As you have been advised already, NO RISK, NO TEST NEEDED
tomvinu17 You have no medical training so it is not surprising that you are fixated on a HIV disease you can't have. What is surprising is that you pretend your doctors are the ones with no medical training, and you are convinced that you are better at diagnosing.

Disagreeing with your doctors will always give you mental pain. Seek therapy to help you get some peace, because until you accept your doctor's diagnosis you will not be able to live a normal life.
Sorry for my mental depression. Actually this was my first exposure in my life outside my home with in the company of a friend. On falling sick, a lot of thoughts came into mind and then i started google. As some symptoms co relates with my sickness so a huge depression on mind came suddenly. This is the reason i came into this forum so that real guidence can be seeked from you experts. You have given me a lot of confidence for that i am really thankfull to you people.
The best thing you can do is stop Googling because everyone dies from something and lots of google stories aren't even true. It is guaranteed that you will feel worse after Googling for disease.
Right Sir, I will follow ur advice. Thanks again.

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