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Hello!
I want to ask question, hope you can help me. I tested 4 years after my last exposure with ELISA 3rd generation, i tested 3 times:
first test index value 0.377 nonreactive <0.9
second test 0.586 nonreactive <0.9
third test 0.289 nonreactive <0.9
When i lokked at this forum, i saw on Herpes medhelp forum that some person who works in hospital and her name is Terri Warrem, she says that hor herpes elisa test, true negatives are index values up to 0.2 and higher indexes can indicate reason for worry. I thought that anything less then 0.9 in ELISA is negative in every sense. I am well out of winodw period.And most of people get index values like 0.09 or up to 0.15 and so. So my questions are:
1. Am i clearly negative for HIV with my index values of 0.3, 0.5 and 0.2?
2. Do i need more testing and what kind?
3. Can you explaine why that woman Terri say that for herpes it is not clear negative if it is higher then 0.2? (i do not have internet card and i can not ask her direct)
4. Are let say index value of 0.8 equaly negative like let say 0.1?
Please help me i am so scared every day of my life! Thank you so much
I want to ask question, hope you can help me. I tested 4 years after my last exposure with ELISA 3rd generation, i tested 3 times:
first test index value 0.377 nonreactive <0.9
second test 0.586 nonreactive <0.9
third test 0.289 nonreactive <0.9
When i lokked at this forum, i saw on Herpes medhelp forum that some person who works in hospital and her name is Terri Warrem, she says that hor herpes elisa test, true negatives are index values up to 0.2 and higher indexes can indicate reason for worry. I thought that anything less then 0.9 in ELISA is negative in every sense. I am well out of winodw period.And most of people get index values like 0.09 or up to 0.15 and so. So my questions are:
1. Am i clearly negative for HIV with my index values of 0.3, 0.5 and 0.2?
2. Do i need more testing and what kind?
3. Can you explaine why that woman Terri say that for herpes it is not clear negative if it is higher then 0.2? (i do not have internet card and i can not ask her direct)
4. Are let say index value of 0.8 equaly negative like let say 0.1?
Please help me i am so scared every day of my life! Thank you so much
Are you nuts? Symptoms are irrelevant, Every person have some symptoms in life of course. Do not use my case for your obsesions ;)
Thank you for your answer and every help you do in this forum. I saw how you help others! You are GREAT man!
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