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Urine Testing for HIV
#17430 - 04/17/01 09:29 PM
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Hello, I need your help. I may be positive for HIV (waiting on results). Recently, I accepted a new position with a new company. The company's insurance vendor requires that you take an HIV test via urine sample. If I am positive, I definitely do not want my company's insurance vendor to deny me coverage and then for the denial to cause a shadow to be cast over me while I am working for this new company. I don't want to take this test, but I have to. Is there anything I can do (i.e., drink or eat) that may cause a false negative result? I am sure that those of you in corporate America feel my anquish. I need this job and I don't want any rumors about my HIV status. The test is to be givin in a few days. HELP!!
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HIV tests are blood tests and not urine tests.
Urine tests are for detecting drugs.
See the forum on workplace issues for more information on your rights as a new employee.
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Seems Urine Tests have been around for a while. Insurance companies probably use them because they are more cost effective for large scale screenings.
i dont know if you are recieving my question
By Joel E. Gallant, M.D., M.P.H. (17-Dec-1998)
dear , dr. gallant you have been so nice in the past answering
my questions in my panic. im the one with the foreign exposure
qustion about the brazilian woman.
i have done well staying away from the net in my paranoia
but recently to my dismay i read that people are turning up positive in urine tests even though they were negative on the
plasma antibody tests . not good to hear . the timing is just
that my wife ha been diagnosed with the shingles (herpes zooster) by her doc , and all i can read associates shingles
with hiv. my wife is 34 and shinlge occurs on older people.
so back to my thinking im hiv positive,
i had a hiv ab test at 3 mos /5.5 mos/6 mos 7mos / 9 mos
all negative . had a pcr done at 6 mos negative and a
hiv 2 done at 6 mos neg .
i have the white tongue coating , the pain in hands and feet
and purple spots on my feet that were not there before
. do i need to retest or am i getting too paranoid
please , please
let me know yr kind thougths
My God, are you STILL obsessing about that Brazilian prostitute? I've been hearing about her since I used to work at The Body, and that was eons ago. It is not true that "people are turning up positive in urine tests even though they were negative on the plasma antibody tests." Yes, there was a small number of cases in a low-risk population in one study, but it's hardly a national trend. And besides, you've had unnecessary PCRs that would have been been positive if you were infected.
As I said in the question I just answered, let your wife get tested, but my guess is that she's got shingles because you've got her so stressed out! Stay away from the internet and get some help with your obsession. I'm through talking about Brazilian prostitutes and urine tests for a long time!
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So, I still need help with my situation. Is there a way to turn up negative on a urine sample? My fear is that there is not.
Help!!
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