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STD/HIV TESTING TOO EARLY?
I'm sure you've seen my pop through this forum lately.
RECAP: Condom broke / 5 second exposure with a girl of unknown status. She ends up on her period. I freak out.
STD: With all the research I've been doing on HIV, I'm totally clueless on more common stds. At 3 weeks I had a case of epididymis. Ran a test for Ghonorea and Chlimitia and both came back neg. My doc said Ecoli or a UTI. Anyway went on Doxycyline for 12 days and that got wrapped up. I also tested for all other STDS at 3 weeks and all those came back ok. But I'm starting to think all those were done too early? I havnt had any thing show on my privates since the encounter some 7 weeks ago. SHould I retest for all this stuff? Would the Doxy clear up Syphlis if I had it?
HIV: Since I'm here I might as well ask the typical HIV testing questions. Like everyone else on here my symptoms are through the roof but I'm trying to stay focused on the tests and not my body. The only symptom I didnt seem to have was a fever. At least none that I can recall. I've developed alot of pimples on my forehead in the last week which Im hoping is due to stress a couple on my arms. I would think that a rash (if it is a rash) wouldnt show up after 6 weeks. COuld it be from coming off the Doxy?
Tested at 4 weeks and at 6 weeks via Bio-rad ab/ag + 0 at lab (California Standard). Both neg. When assessing the actual tests would 2 negs be better than one or does it matter? Should I be scared to test again? I was thinking of 10 weeks but my doc didn't think I needed the 6 week test. I would like to believe the odds are at least in my favor now. My risk contained blood which might have pushed me into the high risk catagory? Of course I'm freaked out. I tried to do the math on all this but I suck at math.
Thanks Doc
RECAP: Condom broke / 5 second exposure with a girl of unknown status. She ends up on her period. I freak out.
STD: With all the research I've been doing on HIV, I'm totally clueless on more common stds. At 3 weeks I had a case of epididymis. Ran a test for Ghonorea and Chlimitia and both came back neg. My doc said Ecoli or a UTI. Anyway went on Doxycyline for 12 days and that got wrapped up. I also tested for all other STDS at 3 weeks and all those came back ok. But I'm starting to think all those were done too early? I havnt had any thing show on my privates since the encounter some 7 weeks ago. SHould I retest for all this stuff? Would the Doxy clear up Syphlis if I had it?
HIV: Since I'm here I might as well ask the typical HIV testing questions. Like everyone else on here my symptoms are through the roof but I'm trying to stay focused on the tests and not my body. The only symptom I didnt seem to have was a fever. At least none that I can recall. I've developed alot of pimples on my forehead in the last week which Im hoping is due to stress a couple on my arms. I would think that a rash (if it is a rash) wouldnt show up after 6 weeks. COuld it be from coming off the Doxy?
Tested at 4 weeks and at 6 weeks via Bio-rad ab/ag + 0 at lab (California Standard). Both neg. When assessing the actual tests would 2 negs be better than one or does it matter? Should I be scared to test again? I was thinking of 10 weeks but my doc didn't think I needed the 6 week test. I would like to believe the odds are at least in my favor now. My risk contained blood which might have pushed me into the high risk catagory? Of course I'm freaked out. I tried to do the math on all this but I suck at math.
Thanks Doc
Well called MonkeyFlower! A very good friend of mine, who is in the highest of high risk categories, who gets tested every 3 months (always negative). Well, he just accepts that thats the way it has to be. I can say for certain, that he doesn't go down Hell Avenue like the rest of us. I guess it's because unlike most of the Worried Wells here (like myself, though I'm finally starting to move on), he can see HIV froma different prospective.
BUt you're right it is easier for the rest of us to talk online. Maybe it's because we call hide behind nicknames and that there will be no comeback, whereas, talking in the "real" world can. I've wanted to tell y two closet friends about whay i've been so withdrawn over the past few months and i love them to bits, i really do, but you end up thinking what if we fall out. It's easy then for that secret to become common knowledge. Online you can talk safe in the knowledge that your talking with others int he very same situation as yourself.
BUt you're right it is easier for the rest of us to talk online. Maybe it's because we call hide behind nicknames and that there will be no comeback, whereas, talking in the "real" world can. I've wanted to tell y two closet friends about whay i've been so withdrawn over the past few months and i love them to bits, i really do, but you end up thinking what if we fall out. It's easy then for that secret to become common knowledge. Online you can talk safe in the knowledge that your talking with others int he very same situation as yourself.
Hi skerd hope you are well today, not sure if we will get an answer but the doc states in several threads he has never seen someone post positve after four weeks, who previouslt tested negative. I wonder is he has ever seen someone test positive within four weeks, I could not find the answer in any of the forums? Just wondering as it could be that its a simple case of everyone who has been to his clinic is negative.
In terms of timeline I am pretty much in the same boat as you, two tests one after four weeks / one after six weeks.
Doctor would you be good enough to answer?
In terms of timeline I am pretty much in the same boat as you, two tests one after four weeks / one after six weeks.
Doctor would you be good enough to answer?
MEDICAL PROFESSIONAL
Good grief. Of course my STD clinic sees people with positive HIV tests, hundreds over the years. No more anxiety-driven questions that defy common sense, please.
HHH, MD
HHH, MD
"a simple case of everyone who has been to his clinic is negative."
I *seriously* doubt that scenario, since he directed the STD clinic at the King County Health Department in Seattle for like 30 years. I have a sneaking suspicion that he's seen more than a few HIV positive folks pass through his door :-)
I think the posters here and elsewhere may be giving you a false impression of reality. This board and others like it are self-selecting. You almost never find people who are at genuine risk posting on these kinds of boards; I have a feeling most just go to the doctor, get tested without undue angst, and move on. Online, though, you find anxious people who are desperate for some reassurance; perhaps they feel guilty because they're otherwise monogamous, are religious, conflicted about their sexuality, whatever. They're frightened and don't feel they can talk to others in their life, so they come online, where they meet lots of others who are in exactly the same situation. So just because you don't find a particular (realistic?) scenario in the forum/archives means nothing. What you read here isn't necessarily reflective of reality... but it is a fascinating phenomenon.
I *seriously* doubt that scenario, since he directed the STD clinic at the King County Health Department in Seattle for like 30 years. I have a sneaking suspicion that he's seen more than a few HIV positive folks pass through his door :-)
I think the posters here and elsewhere may be giving you a false impression of reality. This board and others like it are self-selecting. You almost never find people who are at genuine risk posting on these kinds of boards; I have a feeling most just go to the doctor, get tested without undue angst, and move on. Online, though, you find anxious people who are desperate for some reassurance; perhaps they feel guilty because they're otherwise monogamous, are religious, conflicted about their sexuality, whatever. They're frightened and don't feel they can talk to others in their life, so they come online, where they meet lots of others who are in exactly the same situation. So just because you don't find a particular (realistic?) scenario in the forum/archives means nothing. What you read here isn't necessarily reflective of reality... but it is a fascinating phenomenon.
This should make everyone feel good.
http://peds.wustl.edu/labmed/retrovirus/
http://peds.wustl.edu/labmed/retrovirus/
Everything you ever wanted to know about HIV tests..
http://liam.gnn.tv/print/1775/HIV_Antibody_Assays_Overview
http://liam.gnn.tv/print/1775/HIV_Antibody_Assays_Overview
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