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Does valtrex affect the outcome of an HIV test

Had a rapid test and lab gen 4 test completed at 65 days. Will taking valtrex around the time  of the test cause a false negative?
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3191940 tn?1447268717
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ZERO risk, and no medication would alter the results of an HIV test, apart from chemotherapy - and even that is questionable.
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What was your risk and did you use a condom?
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Unprotected oral, protected vaginal.  I no this was a low risk encounter. I am still curious on the valtrex question. Thanks
Your situation involves personal contact with an object in air  ( hands, body fluids, sweat, penis 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, neither of which you did and you didn't share hollow needles to inject with which is the only other way to acquire 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.
hiv is fragile in air and saliva, unlike Covid so you are worrying about the wrong disease for the encounter you had.
You can't get hiv when you use a condom. If a condom fails it is a large rip down the seam and hangs in tatters so that would be obvious to both people.
Both tests were a waste of time so knowing that now, any more tests would be abnormal.
I forgot to mention that whoever told you oral is low risk doesn't know what they are talking about. You have greater chance of being hit by a meteorite than of hiv from oral.
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