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TB test

i went for a TB test today, so i just wanna know if my test come back positive, can it indicate if im HIV positive? regarding all my symptoms itchy like biting sensation, hair loss, a hairy coated tongue and cracking with bumps, swollen lymph nodes, pain on the chest and heavy breathing, red color in my hands.  
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you are lost. Go, bring yourself back with proper mental help. Until then please don't marry
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thank u guys for answering, thank u so much. really I feel like I'm lost.
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What diseases?  You haven't been diagnosed with any diseases!!!  The only thing that will affect your relationships is your obsession with this no risk event.  I strongly suggest professional help.  It's just not normal to not believe something when you have overwhelming scientific proof to the contrary.  
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you don't have hiv but get some professional mental psychiatric help before marriage otherwise you may take your wife along with your wife for unnecessary tests. 54 tests for nail scratches..you definitely need help
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hello advisers!
I just wanna thanks all of you helping people around MEDHELP FORUMS. Thank you for all your best.

I would like to update about what I'm still going trough.
I went to a new clinic just today and I'm in 19 months since DEC 2010 from nails scratches exposure involving a broken skin. I don't wanna get back to the start as it been a long time I joined the forum. today to the new clinic, after I explained everything to my doctor, she recommend me to have 4 lab blood tests include the HiV and will get my result tomorrow. really I have develop all the hiv symptoms, my hair does not grow back yet, white hairy coated toungue even cracking ( candida trush) still not change yet, I'm swelling on the side of my ears and down on one side of my chick but still really get bigger.

plz advisers, I just wanna know whether you have a few words to say. I almost tested every months with the negV results. in 18 months I had 3 lab tests plus the finger blood test for every month but the new doctor said that they will run a different hiv test. I still have a big concern about hiv... Can u plz help me!!!
I'm about to get married next year maybe, really these deseases will not affect my relationship?      
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No it has nothing to do with HIV
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480448 tn?1426948538
HIV doesn't "hide inside you", we've already been over this with you. Reread all of the answers you've gotten before.
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to teak!
if the TB test come positive, can it indicate if the hiv is hiding inside me? what about the ulcer in my mouth? this got nothing to do with hiv? u know it been 17 months now but symptoms keep on persist and i never had TB in my life.  
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TB tests have to be read within 72 hours. 48-72 hours is the guidelines for reading a TB test.
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thank u for all ur help MEDHELPand thank u for answering my thread.Again they send me to a dentist and get a TB result next thursday.
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First of all you never had a risk, secondly if your HIV test are already negative I do not understand what your Doctor is trying to do with a TB test for diagnosing HIV, I suggest you change your doctor.
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the doctor said is doing that to help me find out if im hiv positve, we already done two types of hiv testswhich is negatives so we have to see whether the TB test will indicate that. my exposure was 17 months ago with a broken skin from nails scratchs and it sound very funny with non risk exposure but can bilieve if all these come from the nails issue.
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NO.they are 2 separate illnesses.You can contract TB if you have AIDS more easily than a person who does not have AIDS.
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