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hep and hiv?
#164025 - 11/13/05 07:47 AM
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If you are exposed to hiv and hep at the same time, will that extend the window period for testing. Or will you still get a conclusive test at the 12/13 week mark?
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from what I read on Dr. Bob's page, he said it would not affect the window period.
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In general, it would not extend the window period. However, one of the long seroconversion cases (8 months) was for a healthcare worker who got a needlestick injury and got infected with HCV and HIV at the same time and so her immune system was laboring to catch up (i.e. she was very sick).
You can get experimental evidence that people's immune systems generate multiple antibodies at the same time by the way we do vaccinations. Haven't you had the experience of getting multiple vaccinations (diptheria, measles, HepA, HepB, tetanus) You can end up looking like a pin cushion! People's bodies will generate all those antibodies just the same. It's a multi-threaded immune system that can handle multiple invasions at the same time, which is probably more than can be said of the operating system that we all use, but I digress.
If you think you may have gotten exposed to Hep ( I assume C?) you should get tested for that too ( would recommend a PCR test as Hep C antibody period is way to long, IMHO) and get treatment with pegylated interferon if infected.
If it's Hep B, I belive the preventive vaccine also works to some extent in therapeutic mode. Go to the doctor and find out for sure.
In general, I would not advise waiting for 12 weeks for HIV test. Get tested earlier, so that in case you are infected you can get treatment that may save your immune system from long term damage. Test at 4 to 6 weeks. The CDC guideline is 6 weeks, 3 months and 6 months.
Good luck.
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