Can diet affect HIV test result?

[bobogz]

Some articles show certain food can prevent HIV infection or inhibit the virus. Please see the links below.
If I ate the food listed in those articles after exposure, will it change the window period and affect the test result?

https://guardian.ng/features/health/more-medicinal-plants-employed-in-hiv-treatment/
https://www.rxlist.com/chinese_cucumber/supplements.htm
https://ncifrederick.cancer.gov/about/theposter/content/scientists-grow-therapeutic-protein-engineered-soya-bean-seeds-prevent-aids

[GuitarRox]

I think during your annual physical exam you should talk to your doctor about anxiety. It's irrational thought to fear HIV from a physical exam. The only ways that people get HIV is to have unprotected vaginal or anal intercourse (no condom with penetration) or to share IV drug needles to INJECT drugs.  Popping of a pimple by a barber, blood draw at the doctors, etc. will not result in HIV transmission. Your anxiety level needs to assessed by a mental health professional as it sounds to be impacting you.

[bobogz]

I talked with a doctor online and he said I am not on risk only if he had body fluid on his hand. I am not sure if he had. Now I am afraid of my test result will not be conclusive because I had some food that has somewhat effect on HIV virus.

[GuitarRox]

Get help with your anxiety. That's all I can say. Answered what risks are and you didn't have any and completely ignored that to continue the anxious spiral.  Anxiety is a treatable disorder. good luck

[AnxiousNoMore]

Your situation involves personal contact with an object in air  (blood draw, barber's bleeding hand , barber clippers, etc. ). You will be happy to learn that you had no risk, because you can't get hiv from personal contact except unprotected penetrating vaginal or anal with a penis, neither of which you did and you didn't share hollow needles to inject with which is the only other way to acquire hiv - there are ONLY 3 ways to get hiv. Note that 2 of them require a penis and the third requires a hollow injecting shared needle - there are no OTHER ways to get hiv. Analysis of large numbers of infected people over the 40 years of hiv history has proven that people don't get hiv in the way you are worried is a risk.
Hiv is a fragile virus in air or saliva and is effectively instantly dead in either air or saliva so the WORST that could happen is dead virus rubbed you, and obviously anything which is dead cannot live again so you are good. Blood and cuts would not be relevant in your situation since the hiv has become effectively dead, so you don't have to worry about them to be sure that you are safe.
There is no reason for a person to test when they are safe. The advice took into consideration that the other person might be positive, so move on and enjoy life instead of thinking about this non-event. hiv prevention is straightforward since there are only 3 ways you can become infected, so next time you wonder if you had a risk, ask yourself this QUESTION. "Did I do any of the 3?" Then after you say "No, I didn't" you will know that it's time to move on back to your happy life.
No one got hiv from what you did during 40 years of hiv history and no one will get it in the next 40 years of your life either.  You can do what you did any time and be safe from hiv.
The other person's status is irrelevant when you have no exposure to live virus.
You should stop wasting money paying some online doctor who gave such bad advice about hiv. He will tell you that you have a risk for anything that you worry about because he collects a fee and has no liability if he answers that way.

[AnxiousNoMore]

First, please state what your risk was that you tested for.

[bobogz]

I don't have any risk, but I feel extremely anxious about my annual physical exam. I am afraid of blood drawn I did in a clinic earlier this year and I am afraid of my acne got popped off by a barber deliberately.  I asked this question because I want to have a conclusive test result.