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Does Beta-glucan affect hiv 4th gen eclia test at 95 days

I had oral sex with a guy and swallow his semen. He actually did ejacuate outisde but after approx 10 second, he asked me to licked it.I dont have any sores or active bleeding wound in my mouth. I get tested for hiv at 10 days cmia 4th gen, 19 days and 32 post exposure days using 4th gen eclia blood from vein. The guy also tested 4th gen eclia post 3 days and 36 days exposure. We both non reactive. Then after the 32 day test, i started to take a mushroom supplement which contains beta glucan.
Active Ingredients:
400 mg Organic Yunzhi (Turkey Tail) Extract  ( Trametes versicolor) +  150 mg Proprietary Blend Mushroom Extract  (Agaricus blazei, Trametes versicolor, Ganoderma  lucidum, Grifola frondosa, Lentinula edodes, Cordyceps sinensis  and  Cordyceps militaris)
The level of beta glucan per capsule is 110mg and the level of polysaccharides is 330mg per capsule.
Moreover i dont take the supplement frequently,  i just took around 25 pills in 55 days. So i did another hiv test 4th gen eclia post 95 days exposure and it come non reactive.  Now i am worried what if the supplement cause false negative hiv test. When i checked chatgpt and poe.com, it said there was some rare cases of false negative due to beta glucan.
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Your situation involves personal contact with an object in air  (body,  fluids,  maybe blood, cuts, mouth,  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.
It is time to move on from hiv fixation and stop wasting your time worrying about your tests since they were  purposeless.
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I don't know if this is your first time posting here (like you've had previous accounts . . . ) but if you read for one minute, you'll see what the risks are for HIV. The risks are having unprotected vaginal or anal sex or sharing IV needles to inject drugs. Air and saliva inactivate the virus. Your oral sex exposure was NEVER a risk and you NEVER needed to test. Every test you took and take will be negative because you didn't have a risk. You are wasting your time and money testing.
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But can the supplement cause false negative hiv at 95 days?  Just for peace of my mind
you didn't have a risk. You suffer an anxiety disorder it appears and that is something that I won't give you reassurance for as it just makes your anxiety worse. See your doctor for anxiety.
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