Anyone Ever Tested Negative At 3 Months Retest Positive Later

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Positive elisa, negative western blot and viral load.. Retest?

Last year i had a false positive HIV test result. My elisa was positive and western blot was negative. My doc told me she didn't think I had HIV but wanted to do a viral load test to be sure. That was negative and she told me' no need to...

Response from Robert J. Frascino, M.D.

The Robert James Frascino AIDS Foundation

Hi.A "false positive HIV test" is by definition a negative HIV test. A positive ELISA with negative Western Blot outside the window period is considered to be a negative HIV-screening test. The undetectable quantitative HIV RNA PCR plasma... Read more »

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Negative at six months but positive later.

Posted by Anonymous, 5 Replies

Does anyone know of any cases where someone tested negative at six months and positive later. Is this possible? I recently tested negative at six months but I'm still worried that I'm slow to seroconvert and that I'll find out I'm poz later. Read more »

do i re-test?

Posted by anxious66, 3 Replies

hiv negative 6 week exposure with a 4th gen duo test

risk: unprotected oral msm me giving, no ejaculation, doubt there was precum, for about a minute in total

it's been 3 and a half months since exposure and i still have a barely noticeable irritated... Read more »

Anyone negative at 13 weeks.....but positive later

Posted by Anonymous, 1 Reply

Has there been anyone here, that tested negative at 13 weeks and then later went back and tested positive.?
Im meaning from a single exposure, and knowing when it happened.
Has anyone gone thru this.? Read more »

Anyone negative at 6 weeks..but positive later??

Posted by Anonymous, 2 Replies

Has there been anyone here, that has PERSONALLY tested negative at 6 weeks (or so) and then later went back and tested positive??

Im meaning from a single exposure, and KNOWING exactly when it happened...

I know there's some that have more than one... Read more »

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