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Does taking pep affect ag/ab combo test results?

I have been taking pep for 5 weeks and my ag/ab combo test is negative, so can i confirm i am safe from hiv?  And does pep affect the test results?
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Your situation involves personal contact with an object in air  ( body, fluids, vagina while using condom,  blood, damaged breast, 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 not be taking pep when you have no risk.
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Please let me ask again so that I can be assured that I change condoms when having sex but vaginal fluid falls on my penis, I will die immediately, so I am safe from HIV, right
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You must be very anxious because you haven't understood a single thing that I posted.
Your questions are never-ending because you don't read anything that I posted. It is time for you to start reading then move on.
THis is the first thing to read.
Since you didn't answer the QUESTION that I asked, I will do it for you. ANSWER> No there wasn't a penis in my anus and she didn't inject me with a hollow needle so I should move on from hiv fears instead of wasting my own time asking irrelevant questions.
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Since you didn't answer the QUESTION that I asked, I will do it for you. ANSWER> No there wasn't a penis in my anus and she didn't inject me with a hollow needle so I should move on from hiv fears instead of wasting my own time asking irrelevant questions.
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So if I change my condom during sex and vaginal discharge gets on my penis, am I still safe from HIV?
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If I ask a lot, they will get angry and scold me, I have no knowledge about it, I can only read it on the internet but the information is mixed, my country is very anti-Hiv, they see it as something  It's very scary and dirty, I don't know who to talk to, I just stay in my room and worry, because when I talk about my problem people will discriminate against me, I'm a person who is too afraid of Hiv.  , thanks for your sharing, it helps me to feel a little bit, I'm so tired, I hope someone will sympathize with me :(
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You can repeat 1 of 3 things to get hiv, later if not 3 things you will be safe from hiv.  I am very heartbroken and regretful, even stressed, because I am a depressed person and being obsessed with Hiv makes me think about stress and having to take antidepressants daily, in the country.  I never accepted that.  explained like you, they only gave very little advice and made us check after 3 months, I'm so tired, help me
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I used condoms when having sex with a prostitute, but during sex, my penis became soft and I changed a new condom, I am worried that if I change it the wrong way, there will be problems and sperm.  Her fluid fell on my penis, the second risk is that when I go to massage, the staff member will bite my chest and bleed a little and she uses her breast to masturbate for me, I am afraid her breast will be damaged.  broken.  inflammation or bleeding is less because I see her as if she is fixing her breasts, I use pep in case of mishaps with prostitutes but all 4 weeks now I have kept pep in the trunk of my motorbike and hot medicine, I am afraid.  of the drug will lose its effect
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The doctor where I live confirmed that my test results after 5 weeks of taking pep are valid and I definitely don't have hiv, do I need to worry more?
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You need to be off PEP for at least 4 weeks before you test, in order to get an accurate result.

What was your risk for HIV?
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