rapid test conondrum. Very scary!!! Please help!!!!

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Please help me! I am so scared. Last october I bought a rapid hiv test, but I did not have the nerve to use it until the middle of this past july. As far as I could see, there was no line next to the "T", but only a fairly light line next to the "C". Around that time I bought another test kit, but did not use it until about a week and a half ago. This test kit again, did not produce a line next to the "T", but only a line next to the "C" (as far as I could tell). Against my better judgement, I kept this test stick as sort of a lucky charm, and I bought another one. This again appeared at the time to only produce a line next to the "C". I also kept the test stick for this one. Just today (about a week and a half after testing, I looked at both sticks again really carefully (for about the millionth time). This time, I noticed somthing on one of the sticks that I had not noticed before. Next to the "T" line on one of the sticks, there is a very faint, barely perceptible white band type thing, almost the same color as the rest of the white paper on the stick!!!! It looks kind of like a groove, or an indentation where pigment would ordinarilly appear if the test were positive. The test does say that any line (even a faint line) could mean that you have hiv. It also says that the test is only accurate for the 20 to 40 minute period, and after that, the lines could become "overdeveloped", I figure that this could be the case with the stick, or maybe all that I'm seeing is the indentation groove where pigment would adhere if the test were positive, but I'm not sure!!! As far as my risks are concerned, I have never had unprotected vaginal or anal sex and I have never injected drugs. In fact, I've only had vaginal sex like five times in my life, (always with latex condoms) and I've always checked the condome for breakage after, and found none. The only hiv tests I have had in the past were at the doctor's office, and they were negative.The risk which caused me to test was that one year ago towards the end of july, I messed around and made out with a girl that turns tricks for money, and is an injection drug user with hep c. I fingered her with a finger that had a scrape from about 2 to 4 days prior, but was not bleeding or pussing from what I could see. We performed oral sex on each other (only with dental dams!!!!) but at one point she took the dam off herself, flicked it around a bit, and put it back on herself, so I'm worried that maybe some of her vaginal fluids could have gotten into my mouth, even though I made a point to wait several seconds before proceeding on her so that anything that might be on the dental dam would be exposed to the air, and also used only the very tip of my tongue. She also fingered me, and the palm of her hand had dried blood from a fight she had been in days before, but she only used her fingers on me. I was tested for hep c 4 days, 5 weeks, and than 6 months after making out with her and it was negative. I have no other past hiv risk behaviors, but I'm not sure what to make of this test stick with a barely perceptible white groove that you can see if you look really close or hold it up to light. Was that groove put there by the manufacturer? What do you guys think? Teak? Lizzie? Nursegirl? Please help me!!! What should I do?? Do you think that the test stick just became overdeveloped over a matter of days??? Help!

Jane22789 · Answer

Thank you teak, you are a dear and sweet man. But sir, please, what do you make of the unusual state of one of the test? sticks. (i had trouble with login so i had to set up a new profile)