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Hi guys my exposure is unprotected vaginal sex and oral sex w/ a girl ive met in a pub. after my friends scares me why i havent used a protection. si i get paranoid and get tested. i test @ 4 weeks w/ a rapid antibody test @ 6 weeks orasure test and @ 8 weeks a determine duo rapid test by alere. Upon reading here in this expert forum and the doctors and international forum. Ive found out there a bit of discrepancies of information. The doctors stance that an 8 week duo test is conclusive or even a stand alone antibody test only. And this forum stance  any hiv test after 12 weeks is conclusive. Should i take another test? How come medhelp expert forum and medhelp doctors forum have different opinions about window periods? And i read here that teak says that a duo test will just make a 1 week earlier detection so if the window period is 12 weeks if a person will take a duo test it will be conclusive @ 11 weeks. Thats what i understand in teaks several post. thanks guys
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im going out the country for work mam.. hence the project i wil go to is very remote.. i will stay there minimum 6 months. anyways if its good enough a can rest my mind and the doctor gave me already a all clear conclusive hiv negative on my 8 week test
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if you are going to keep concerning yourself with this...WHY DONT YOU TEST AT 84 DAYS AND GET THAT "CONCLUSIVE" RESULT?

79?  81?  how about 84?????

geeeez
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thanks and i can take it as my conclusive test??
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186166 tn?1385259382
a test at 79 days is NOT going to change in 2 days.

now move along...your question HAS BEEN ANSWERED ! ! !
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So mr teak. What your answer to my question? Should i do it 81 days or 79 days is good enough.. Im preparing myself now. That if ever i test and i know it would be negative i will accept it and thats it no more test again
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Should have used a condom now shouldn't have you.
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Do the math. US uses 13 weeks all others use 12. Both equal 3 month. 8 weeks is not 12 or 13 weeks nor is 8 wecks 79 days.
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ok i undestand it. and the guidelines that this forums follows.. but still its out of the question anymore. im asking in your experience because i know that your in medical field also and i can say the one of the most knowledgable person here in this forum. Sir i kindly asking you to answer the question. why you tell me if i will take a 79 day test it will not be conclusive. which in a thread i post you comment that the poster to move on at his 79 days. i found also on some threads that 81 days you tell its final and good enough,. i think all you mean there is it conclusive. so again im asking what yhe difference between a 81 day test and 79 day test can i take my test @ 79 days? and i can move on and say its good enough its final for me. or should i postponed my flight and tae 81 days,.. thanks..
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It's not the forums stance, it's the manufactures and the FDA.
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ok mr teak. thats not my question i know its only a good indication as per this forum stance. i accept that opinion. but my question is according about if i will take the test @ 79 days it will not be conclusive?? why on threads ive post that you comment that @ 81 days yoy tell its final. good enough and can move on. this means its conclusive right even though you dont used that term. Now my question is there a huge difference between 79 days and 81 days,. because if im going back to the doctor for sure he will tell me its conclusive because he put me in a clear already at my 8 week test. Hope you can answer it mr. teak and i apologize if im some kind of harsh.. hope you understand how we feel.. thanks
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Read your first post 8 weeks is not conclusive.

http://www.cdc.gov/globalaids/Resources/pmtct-care/docs/TM/Module_6TM.pdf
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#4
  In an adult, a positive HIV antibody test result means that the person is infected, a person with a negative or inconclusive result may be in the “window for 4 to 6 weeks but occasionally up to 3 months after HIV exposure. Persons at high risk who initially test negative should be retested 3 months after exposure to confirm results


UK Fourth Generation  Testing
http://www.bhiva.org/documents/Guidelines/Testing/GlinesHIVTest08.pdf
Post testing
Page 11
The need for a repeat HIV test if still within the window period after a specific exposure should be discussed. Although fourth generation tests shorten the time from exposure to seroconversion a repeat test at three months is still recommended to definitively exclude HIV infection.
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ok anyone here that can answer that question?? mr. teak i dont get you.. you can just answered the question and lets be done w/ it.. its you that ask me to post that threads.. Then after i post it your not going to answer the questions and leave it hanging on there.. Hope some expert answer that question. And mr. teak i think its a valid question so stop gaving me warning response. If you dont want to answer its fine w/ me
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* Anyone who continues to post excessively, questioning a conclusively negative result or no-risk situation, will be subject to action by MedHelp. Conclusively negative results or a no-risk situation will be based upon the criteria established by MedHelp’s doctors. Action will be taken as follows:
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http://www.medhelp.org/posts/HIV-Prevention/teak-and-others-please-respond/show/369851#

thats the thread. When you say its final and good enough?? you mean its conclusive right? whats the difference betwen 79 days and 81 days? if you can tell 81 days is good enough and final why not 79 days? i will took the test maybe 79/80 days few more hours on 79 days and few hours short on 80 days.. is this things really matters? did my past 3 test means that im on a clear already and this 79 day test i will take is for my piece of mind.. because i think if i ever do really get infected somehow 1 of those test will catch the antibody most specially the duo test @ 8 weeks because even the antigen part of it will not show anymore the antibody test will surely detect it. As per the doctors here at medhelp..
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Post the thread.
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ok.. how about the 81 days test? is it good enough and is it finaleans conclusive? because i can push my flight until there.. why the 79 days is not good enough and i read in some old thread that you comment is 81 days is final and good enogh whats the difference of 2 days.. i think this virus will not gonna just pop out like that. even the doctors say @ 3 weeks a person will create enough antibody to detect for the test.
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It does not say that at all. It says, quote DUO test will identify HIV infection about 1 week earlier then a standard HIV antibody test. No where does it say anything about conclusive. Conclusive is not even mention in that post. The above post says, "After 3 months your test will be conclusive and NOT before."

Is that or is that not what is posted in that thread?

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im not arguing sir. its just my understanding on your comments.. why i should come up here then i will argue w/ the experts here.. its just i really read some of your comments telling that suo test will be conclusive 1 week earlier.. because of my situation i need some expert advise.. so if for you 79 days is not conclusive how about 81 days? because again i read some of your comments on old threads that is good enough and conclusive? what the difference of 79 days and 81 days..
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Go back and reread what it says. Try reading the whole thread and comprehending what you read.
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teak thats the thread.. so it means thats info is not correct??
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Aparently you read what you wanted to read. "Same thread that you left off the important information."


Teak  Aug 27, 2008 .

After 3 months your test will be conclusive and NOT before.


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Now if you are going to post make sure you post it correctly.
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Paste it now.
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