3 Negative Hiv Results Can U Still Be Infected

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HIV Is a Continuum Infection Primary Infection (or Acute Infection) Seroconversion The Asymptomatic Stage Early- and Medium-Stage HIV Symptomatic Disease Late-Stage HIV Disease (AIDS) HIV Is a Continuum Most of us are used to thinking of disease in very simple terms: if you feel sick, you are sick; if you feel healthy, you are healthy. However, because HIV may begin causing subtle changes in the immune system long before an infected...

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Negative HIV test result at 5 months "true negative"

I had a negative elisa hiv test at 5 months post possible incident. can i be confident in my negative blood test? can i confidently have sex with my soon to be husband... and not have to worry about infecting him? or is it recommended i get...

Response from Erik Glenn, M.A.

Chicago Black Gay Mens Caucus

Thanks for your question,We can trust your 5 month test! Our general recommendation is to get tested at 3 months and you waited even longer!Sounds like you're negative.Hope this helps!Erik... Read more »

diffrence between hiv infection and hiv 1/2 eia oositive and confimation negative

i was tested in september and was eia1/2 positive but confimatory westernBlot1 negative so am i called hiv positive or negative? in my lab test report it was written that negative westernBlot does not exclude hiv infection what does it mean? and i...

Response from Robert J. Frascino, M.D.

The Robert James Frascino AIDS Foundation

Hello,Assuming you had this test taken six months after your last unprotected sexual exposure to your first husband (I'm assuming he died of AIDS), your results would indicate you are definitively HIV negative. A positive EIA and negative... Read more »

Am Im infected with HIV due symptoms and false negatives test?

I had a true HIV expose due to a condom break with a female in Angola (West Africa). Reason I know it is a true exposure the women told me she was HIV+ after we had sex due to the condom break. I had several ARS related symptoms between week 2 and...

Response from Lisa Hightow-Weidman, M.D., M.P.H.

University of North Carolina

Hello-Yes at 4 months post exposure you can consider your results negative. The standards for HIV tests, whether oral swab or blood are very accurate at 28 days, and conclusive at 90 days. In addition, the viral load test which you took at 73 days... Read more »

I am not satisfied with my negative result. Maybe HIV-2?

Ok, this is probably the most bizzare story that you will ever hear reguarding HIV, but here it goes. Six years ago, when I was a freshman in high school, this kid was trying to get me to drink from his cup. I wont get too detailed, but being that I...

Response from Ryan M. Kull, C.S.W

Columbia University's Health & Related Services

There is nothing in your question that suggests that you are at any risk for HIV infection. What I do get is that you have a good deal of anxiety, and it sounds like your anxiety is making your life pretty miserable. Since HIV infection should not... Read more »

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HIV infected negative test

Posted by ruans, 6 Replies

I've only seen 2 cases here worthy of worry; red32 (had relation with HIV+ person, developed, candida, 15 days fever, etc...to this day has neuropathy same as his wife; and myself with a very similar simptomatology and serology (cd4/cd8).

I am... Read more »

Negative test results are no longer valid...

Posted by dsaklad

Negative test results are no longer valid if there's another sexual contact.

Besides AIDS HIV acquired immune deficiency syndrome human immunodeficiency virus
it would be a good idea to for both sex partners to get tested together for the other
sexually... Read more »

9 week post exposure, muscle twitches, 7 week Oraquick rapid negative result.

Posted by treeoflife1, 1 Reply

any way muscle twitches can have anything to do with 9 weeks post exposure HIV, Read more »

For anyone worried about false negative results.

Posted by JOHN_IN_LONDON, 2 Replies

PERT assay for plasma RNA HIV-1
A new assay, called the product-enhanced reverse transcriptase (PERT) assay, provides a more accurate method of detecting plasma RNA HIV-1 compared with the polymerase chain reaction (PCR) assay. Dr. Jurg Boni and... Read more »

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