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The relation between propecia and HIV test

Dear Friends and readers

I need your advise please

I had unprotected sex 105 days ago and I feel guilty about it, it did involved touching Virginia fluids with my pennies and deep kissing and then I have noticed I had a cut on my tongue and now I'm so scared as my face and body is itching  me for the last 2 months,

After that exposure I had HIV rapid test 3 weeks later it did came positive then in the same  day I did ELISA test and came Negative then I repeated Rapid test 3 days later and came negative  after 6 weeks after that exposure  I did another  ELISA and came negative then my doctor noticed my anxiety and he offered me to do PCR and  W.B which was 40 days after the exposure  and came Negative  both of them.

Today I'm really scared because my face, my hands and upper body is itching me now and this is since the last 2 months but with normal body  temperature  as I do measure my temp. every 2 to 3 hours,

I'm I at risk and as I did toke minoxydil and propecia for hair loss for the last 6 months  with doctor's advie and this might did the affect the  HIV first test reading which came positive as I stopped taking those medicine after the first rapid test which came positive, and do I need to repeat the HIV test again as the doctor asked me to do the HIV test again in 1 year time which made me worried more as he might knows something which I don‘t know and honestly the last days were a disaster for me but what about waiting for 1 year which I‘m sure I will die before that?

Plus I was reading that the BLOOD DONERS who taking propecia are not eligible to donate for 1 month after the last dose, do you have the reason of that.

My employer is requesting me to do the test every year and I'm worried about losing my life and my job.
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Thank you very much for your help but what do you think about the itching  on me face and upper body for the last 2 months?

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Your test was conclusive. Nothing else is an HIV concern.
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