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Dr. Thank you for your time. I have a quick question on the appropriate test to take. I have read several posts on oral sex being zero risk. I am a male and received from a female csw in the Dominican republic. I keep reading that a antibody test a 3 months is conclusive unless you have some type of immune compromising situation. What exactly is a immune deficiency and how do i Know if I have it. I have been reading on cvid and read that 1 in 795 people have it and dont know they do. If you can just give me a brief explanation so I can stop freaking myself out
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MEDICAL PROFESSIONAL
Welcome to the HIV forum. You've been quite busy on MedHelp, some reflecting your own anxieties, but others showing you have a certain amount of objectivity about them, i.e. with your own reassuring words for other users.
You have correctly learned that oral sex carries little or no HIV risk. But it doesn't matter how high the risk of exposure might have been, or even whether or not your partner had HIV. Your test results prove you were not infected.
As for immune disorders altering test results, that's a theory only, with few if any actually documented cases. It's probably an issue only with very serious immune deficiencies of the kind associated with terminal cancer, potent chemotherapy, and the like -- and maybe not even then. Other conditions that impair antibody response also result in prominent recurrent infections, often very serious, over many years. If you are in outwardly good health, you can be sure you have no such condition.
So for sure you don't have HIV. Try to stop worrying about it.
Regards-- HHH, MD
You have correctly learned that oral sex carries little or no HIV risk. But it doesn't matter how high the risk of exposure might have been, or even whether or not your partner had HIV. Your test results prove you were not infected.
As for immune disorders altering test results, that's a theory only, with few if any actually documented cases. It's probably an issue only with very serious immune deficiencies of the kind associated with terminal cancer, potent chemotherapy, and the like -- and maybe not even then. Other conditions that impair antibody response also result in prominent recurrent infections, often very serious, over many years. If you are in outwardly good health, you can be sure you have no such condition.
So for sure you don't have HIV. Try to stop worrying about it.
Regards-- HHH, MD
Dr I am sorry I have over staid my welcome on this forum Please accept my apologies for being a pest that was not my intention. I do agree with you 100% that the forum has nothing for me anymore. Thank you again for your time.
MEDICAL PROFESSIONAL
I'm sorry, but this forum cannot help you any further. I do not know "what is going on" with you and will not try to guess. It is not HIV, and we do not speculate about other causes of symptoms.
Dr Im sorry for coming back with another question. After your answer I dont think I will be back to this forum it is causing me to much anxiety. I have been working with my Dr on this diarrhea that Ive had for almost 3 months I had a colonoscopy and a endoscopy last week I was diagnosed with microscopic collites caused by elevated lymphocytes i was reading that in the early stage of hiv this is very common as the body is trying to fight hiv. If I understand this does it mean that at this point I would test positive with a antibody test? I took a test at 90 days and it was NEG ( thank God). Sorry again for being a WW Im just trying to understand what is going on with me.
thanks Doc.
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