Uneducated after HIV information

[Walter341]

Hi just a few questions on testing for hiv really appreciate it if you could help me out. I had unprotected sex anal with a girl of unknown status and i have take a test at 33 days it was a ab/ag test at the clinic samples sent to the lab. This test came back negative however I have had pains in my ankles and burning sensation in my heels would this warrant for another test or can i move on with my life.

Kind regards
Walter

[GuitarRox]

Glad you tested negative.  Obviously an unprotected anal sex exposure is a risk for HIV transmission. But it is LOW risk at less than 1% for a one time incident.  And your ab/ag test at 33 days is conclusive.  You did NOT get HIV. Your ankle pain and heel pain is unrelated.  Check the state of your shoes, they may need replacing which can cause those problems.  Also physical activity with lack of stretching prior or cool down after can.  But it's not hiv.

[Walter341]

Thank you, so regardless of what symptoms come up now I can be confident in that result and move on with my life.

[GuitarRox]

yes, regardless of symptoms. And as you are anxious, you are taking anything that happens and trying to apply it to HIV.  It's not.  So, yes, you can move on with your life.  

[Walter341]

It’s just that these pain have come up out of no where, after my test.
I had a whole range of symptoms before my test which prompted me to get tested obviously the previous symptoms would have come up in the test if it was related to hiv. However these pains in ankles and burning sensation have come up now

[Walter341]

Just read your response thank you i will try and forget about it now take care guitar Rox

[Walter341]

Hi sorry to bother you once more just a quick question if for any reason i start getting symptoms different to the ones i have would that require another test say at the 6th week mark I’m sorry I’m asking you a lot of questions but i just need to know as I’m not educated in any of this. Kind Regards Walter

[GuitarRox]

You gotta stop.  You tested negative and the result is conclusive.  That's it.  Stop trying to apply symptoms to HIV.  HIV doesn't work that way.  You do not need any more testing if you had a 4th generation DUO test which you did.  It is conclusive at 28 days.  

[Walter341]

Got it thanks, i just have one more question then i promise to close this subject, have you ever seen a negative at 33 days turn positive or ever heard of such a thing. That’s all and once again thank you so much for being here for all us worried wells.

Thank you
Walter

[GuitarRox]

no

[AnxiousNoMore]

Even if symptoms were useful to diagnose hiv - which they aren't so doctors don't try - you would be in a hospital if your symptoms were coming from hiv because there would be lots of serious problems, not sore ankles. See doc to see if anything can be done to solve them.

[Walter341]

Hi AnxiousNo,More, Trust me this is not the only symptom i had however the symptoms in the past i have managed to ignore as i read somewhere that if my symptoms were due to hiv then my test would of been positive. These symptoms came on the morning of my test and still linger on.  That’s when i thought I’d tested to early at 33 days. I’m just asking these questions as i needed to know the window period and when to move on from this experience i had i think 15 minutes of pleasure is not worth the risk of waiting so long to get an accurate result messed up i know.

KIND REGARDS
WALTER S

[AnxiousNoMore]

Well, symptoms are irrelevant because doctors can't diagnose from symptoms so no one here pays attention to them either. You shouldn't pay attention to them and stop googling hiv symptoms cold turkey because it is a total waste of your time plus it can only make a person anxious.

[Walter341]

Yes i have stopped doing so, and taken the advise of GuitarRox that anytime past 28 days a 4gen combo test in conclusive and i am going to try and get my life back to normality hopefully, you guys are doing an amazing job. Keep it up.

[Walter341]

Hi all, sorry to have to bother one last time i have had another test at 40 days post exposure due to having pains in my legs I couldn’t take it any longer so had to go and get tested. May i ask you one last question this evening i have notices a red rash top half of my chest and side of my body should i be concerned about this?

[AnxiousNoMore]

Reread the advice about symptoms because the advice can't change. "Symptoms are irrelevant because doctors can't diagnose from symptoms so no one here pays attention to them either."
At this point your anxiety is a bit of a mental health issue so consider therapy or talk to your doc.

[AnxiousNoMore]

Take it easy on yourself and find a professional to talk to because you are living with a lot of mental agony for no physical reason.

[GuitarRox]

Again, no risk, you are continuing to post about a non risk.  We hope you speak to someone about this anxiety, your symptoms are not HIV related.

[Walter341]

Thank you so much for your wonderful answers. I appreciate your Help to many of us worried wells.
When I went for the last test the nurse had finished with her last patient and let him out then put her samples at main reception and called my name i followed her back however as soon as i entered the needle had been waiting could she have used the same needle as she had no time to open a new one as it wasn’t done in front me when she tried to draw the blood she couldn’t so she ride the other arm please could you tell me if its something to worry about and whether  or not i should report this. Many thanks

[AnxiousNoMore]

Your mental health anxiety caused by an unnatural fixation on hiv is a more serious problem than what someone on ANY forum can help you with. Consider one on one therapy or a discussion with your doctor because this is an hiv prevention forum and you don't have hiv. There are 5,000 other diseases and conditions that you can acquire with NO notice but you don't spend every day testing for them to see if you picked up one overnight.

[AnxiousNoMore]

Clinics and hospitals do not infect people with hiv, so there is nothing for you to report. The only non-sexual way a person can get infected is by sharing hollow needles used to inject with, but you were not injected so you had zero risk from the blood draw.
Your situation involves personal contact with an object in air  ( needle, Let's pretend the nurse did the impossible  and was dumb enough to use the same needle to draw your blood - then for this example I will pretend there was a trace of someone's blood left on the outside of the syringe - however this did not happen but bear with me and keep reading below.). No hiv worries, because you can't get hiv from personal contact except unprotected penetrating vaginal or anal, neither of which you did and you didn't share hollow needles to inject with which is the only other way to acquire hiv. Analysis of large numbers of infected people over the 40 years of hiv history has proven that people don't get hiv in the way you are worried is a risk.
HIV is a fragile virus in air or saliva and is effectively instantly dead in either air or saliva so the worst that could happen is dead virus rubbed you, and obviously anything which is dead cannot live again so you are good. Blood and cuts would not be relevant in your situation since the hiv has become effectively dead, so you don't have to worry about them to be sure that you are safe.
There is no reason for a person to test when they are safe. The advice took into consideration that the other person might be positive, so move on and enjoy life instead of thinking about this non-event. hiv prevention is straightforward since there are only 3 ways you can become infected, so next time you wonder if you had a risk, ask yourself this QUESTION. "Did I do any of the 3?" Then after you say "No, I didn't" you will know that it's time to move on back to your happy life.
You have never read of anyone getting hiv from a blood draw because it doesn't happen.