I reallly appreciate your positivety. I need alot of reasurance..havent slept properly for two days.. was so terrified last night, i vomited. :) It's scarry stuff. I'm always imagining how i'm gonna live the rest of my life.. lol maybe i'm over doing it. but never the less, i wont be at rest until the test at 12 weeks... 12 weeks of hell, i'm gonna go for a pcr, just called a close friend of mine, hes a doctor at a hospital. he's telling me not to worry so much.. but it's difficult.. He'll give me more feed back about the availability of PCR in kuwait.
If immediate urination was a quick "PEP" for HIV, it would have definitely mentioned somewhere in the research. I do not think, it is an appropriate way to "wash out" what has been picked up.
Never the less, as said earlier, you have very low probability due to being a male (females have higher probability to pick), circumcised (uncircumcised males have more risk due to "additional area of exposure" of their inner foreskin) and having vaginal sex (anal sex is far riskier).
I dont have any std's nor do i have any sores or cuts on my penis, i am also circumsised.. saying this.. i have read that there's a chance of the prostitiutes vaginal fluids entering my urethar.. Now would it make a difference if i urinated right after the sexual encounter?? wouldn't that help wash out and eliminate any chance of infection through my urethra?
I dont have any std'd nor do i have any sores or cuts on my penis, i am also circumsised.. saying this.. i have read that there's a chance of the prostitiutes vaginal fluids entering my urethar.. Now would it make a difference if i urinated right after the sexual encounter?? wouldn't that help wash out and eliminate any chance of infection through my urethra?
Enough debate on PCR. Its your decision, you may go for it, but please be prepared to get a "false positive" which might raise your anxiety level many times. If it comes negative, it is negative for sure.
Accuracy and reliability of a standard ELISA is second to none, I still maintain.
Last but not the least, in future, avoid those Chinese ****** roaming in the middle eastern emirates and entertaining 10 clients a day (as Moh pointed out). Pleasure of sex does not last for more than a few minutes, but picked up HIV stays with us until the end of our remaining post infection miserable lives.
I think the common consensus is 28 days for a PCR, but I have read literature as little as 2 days...
Truth is I have had mabe 5-6 PCR tests done over a period of time. I was not haveing a lot of luck, broken condom, blood exposure etc.... all pretty much 3 months apart.
Any ways that is behind me now. But I was very fortunate to have PCR tests readilly available. I re-checked the math. Currently a PCR done on the cheap is 50$ and on the high is around $150 in Thailand. The 150 is from one of the BIG expensive expatriot type hospitals, but they send the sample to the same lab as the 50$ operation. The 50$ place is actually a God send. What it is is a large research facility at a medical school that is multi nationally funded. So prices there are very reasonable, all done in a clean professional environment. If the sample is taken from a small private clinic, the fee is around 70 USD. So those are some more prices from Thailand.