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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
Early detection is not the same as a conclusive result. You need test 3 months post exposure to obtain your conclusive NEGATIVE test result.
so how about your post before that ive read that 11 weeks of duo test is conclusive. Can i take it by 11 week? because im going out of country work and the place is isolated and remote it is on papua new gunea. i will take it before my flight. And why my doctor gaves me a clear conclusive that im on a clear that im hiv negative? He explain that there is no chance that a negative 8 weeks duo test will turn possitive. Is it correct? But teak if i will take @ my 11 week and two days can i rest my mind that its conclusive or should i think about it in my next 6 months while im away at my work?
Actually its been confusing about window periods. because when i took my orasure test @ 6 weeks the doctor tells me the window period is 6 months. and he just show me the brossure of the test and some cdc guide lines. saying 97% of people will create antibody but there our 3 % will take more up to 6 months. And i found it very very wrong.. Because ive read here in medhelp its is 12 weeks. and doctors forum 8 weeks is conclusive.. what is the ral deal upon this window periods?
ok i will just copy and paste it when i found it. but your comment goes something like this.
DUO test will identify HIV infection about 1 week earlier than a standard HIV antibody test.
Just read some few threds that your saying that a duo will be conclusive 1 week earlier than a standard antibody test.. so it will be 11 weeks ryt?
DUO test will identify HIV infection about 1 week earlier than a standard HIV antibody test.
Just read some few threds that your saying that a duo will be conclusive 1 week earlier than a standard antibody test.. so it will be 11 weeks ryt?
teak can i take my 11 week and 2 days duo test will be conclusive? it will be 2 weeks from now..
Early detection is not the same as a conclusive negative test result. There are no tests marketed or sold to give a conclusive negative test earlier than 3 months post exposure and the window period is 4 weeks to 3 months.
No it won't be a conclusive and anything over 4 weeks and and the antigen part of the DUO test is useless.
http://www.orasure.com/products-infectious/products-infectious-oraquick.asp#faq4
Are all negatives true negatives?
A Non-Reactive (negative) test means that anti-HIV antibodies were not detected in the specimen. This test result is interpreted as Negative.
It is possible to get a negative screening test if the infection is very recent. This may be because there is a window period of several weeks when a person may be infected but antibodies to the virus have not reached a concentration that is visible. Therefore, if a person has certain risk factors, or thinks they may have been exposed to HIV, they should be retested in three months to be certain of a negative result.
Are all negatives true negatives?
A Non-Reactive (negative) test means that anti-HIV antibodies were not detected in the specimen. This test result is interpreted as Negative.
It is possible to get a negative screening test if the infection is very recent. This may be because there is a window period of several weeks when a person may be infected but antibodies to the virus have not reached a concentration that is visible. Therefore, if a person has certain risk factors, or thinks they may have been exposed to HIV, they should be retested in three months to be certain of a negative result.
Teak
Aug 27, 2008 DUO test will identify HIV infection about 1 week earlier then a standard HIV antibody test.
Aug 27, 2008 DUO test will identify HIV infection about 1 week earlier then a standard HIV antibody test.
i cant find the tread that you teel that 11 week duo test is conclusive gonna dig up on search queries.. Or all of those are old threads w/c you dont remember anymore.. So my qyestion is a 11 weeks and 2 days is conclusive?? so if antigen part of it is useless at that time. i will take a normal rapid antibody test. I understand teak your in medical field so medically lets just stay away in the guidelines, Do you think negative 8 weeks duo test will miss out an infection. As i understand on the doctors here in the forum any duo test in 4+ weeks is conclusive. but i know still this expert forum will not change there stance unless cdc change there guidelines,.. so im asking in your own medical experience teak. and interpretation of this hiv virus.
You just said you looked at it, post the thread. We don't want to hear you said someone said something without the proof. How did you copy and paste the part with the date if you can't find it?
thats the post teak. i cant copy the url of it.. its your comments on some old threads.. But i dont think you can remember that.. So is that statement from you are correct or not? that a duo test will detect 1 week earlier on a standard antibody test
3 months post exposure is when you can obtain your conclusive negative test result.
The window period is 4 weeks to 3 months. Period.
The window period is 4 weeks to 3 months. Period.
http://www.cdc.gov/globalaids/Resources/pmtct-care/docs/TM/Module_6TM.pdf
Page 11
#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.
Page 11
#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.
ok teak if i take it @ 81 days.. its just hair splitting days of 84 days.. why is this window period is complicated. Cmon why 79 days is not conclusive..
ok serch olley.. its his thread.. ok i will copy and paste it. and you even state that 11 week duo test is conclusive.. later i will paste it.. ok? thanks
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.
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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