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HIV RNA when to test

Hello, I have a question regarding the HIV RNA test.

Fortunately I’m able to get a RNA test with Labcorp at a reasonable price. I had an exposure 9 days ago, and the HIV RNA description says that it is reliable between 9 and 12 days. I also read that during that timeframe it is around 95% accurate. But my question is if that accuracy is the same at 9 days or it is less and I should wait until day 12?
I’m planning on confirming the result with a 4th gen test on day 28+, but I would like to get some reassurance with the RNA a little earlier.
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Your situation involves personal contact with an object in air  (penis, mouth, body, fluids 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.
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What was the risk that warranted testing?
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It was oral with another male, insertive and receptive. But I have been feeling something in my throat since a few months, I thought it was globus sensation but I think it is more a lesion in my back tongue. I suffer of GERD. But I also had another exposure 3 months ago where I could have contracted a std such as oral gonorrhea. (It was in a bathhouse, so it would be considered a high risk environment for the stds). For that exposure I was on pep and tested negative 6 weeks after finishing it (10 weeks after exposure).

I know from previous post that the risk of oral sex is negligible, but I’m in a relationship and I don’t want to put my girlfriend on risk.

In the worst case scenario I contracted throat gonorrhea from the first exposure, my hiv risk by oral sex could be increased in this one?

Hope I explained myself clearly. And thank you
You didn't read the previous post well enough because the risk is zero - your claim of "negligible" is incorrect - which makes any circumstances you can think of (such as gonorrhea) irrelevant. You can search this site and all posts say zero.

It is time to move on from hiv fears. You should get a better doctor because you should not have been on PEP.
Ok thank you. So no risk for this exposure.

For the one I took pep it was because I was the insertive partner unprotected. That is why I took pep. But it was closed with the negative test 43 days after finishing pep
Anything you can add to your encounter - including insertive - is irrelevant since oral is zero risk.
But just for the sake of knowledge, that RNA test at day 9/10 would be as accurate as one taken at day 12?
There are no guidelines for a placebo test. You have wasted a lot of time with purposeless PEP treatment and don't believe anything you have ben told here because you unfortunately won't accept that you are pursuing an impossible dead virus infection idea.  
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