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I got hiv antibody test at 6 weeks and hiv pcr plasma at 8 weeks post possible exposure.
Almost all the symptoms have been experienced. Fever, night sweats and sore thoroat are recurrent.
1. How reliable and accurate antibody test at 6 week post possible exposure?
2. How reliable and accurate pcr plasma test at 8 weeks if even viral load is very very low?
3. Could these test detect if there is coinfection with hepatitis.
4. Is fever and sore throat in hiv recurring and intermittent?
Almost all the symptoms have been experienced. Fever, night sweats and sore thoroat are recurrent.
1. How reliable and accurate antibody test at 6 week post possible exposure?
2. How reliable and accurate pcr plasma test at 8 weeks if even viral load is very very low?
3. Could these test detect if there is coinfection with hepatitis.
4. Is fever and sore throat in hiv recurring and intermittent?
Thank you for youe response! It's kind of you to answer me.
1. i don't know exactly what type of AB test it was. When I asked it fro health care professional, he said that these tests are 4th generation. However, he mentioned that they only detect AB for hiv. I doubt these tests are surely of 4th generation.
2.My exposure was protected sexual intercourse. But during intercourse, I;m not sure condom didn't break. In addition to this i just shaved some hair on/around y genital area before intercourse and during the sex, her vaginal fluid spread/spilled where i shaved just a few minutes ago. however there wasn't open bleeding. one day after possible exposure i woke up with night sweats. Following week i developed low grade fever, sore throat, rash and a spot on my genital area it was followed by angular chelitis. After 6 weeks, I experienced fever and night sweats, sore throat and angular chelitis again. After 10 week of exposure it was repeated again.
Now I have a bit yellowish in my eyes, i i dark-yellow urine. I have little pain in my right side and in my stomach too.
I read that coinfection with hcv expand window period of hiv is it true? If it's true, can it affect to only window period for antibody tests or does in have any impact on pcr tests too?
1. i don't know exactly what type of AB test it was. When I asked it fro health care professional, he said that these tests are 4th generation. However, he mentioned that they only detect AB for hiv. I doubt these tests are surely of 4th generation.
2.My exposure was protected sexual intercourse. But during intercourse, I;m not sure condom didn't break. In addition to this i just shaved some hair on/around y genital area before intercourse and during the sex, her vaginal fluid spread/spilled where i shaved just a few minutes ago. however there wasn't open bleeding. one day after possible exposure i woke up with night sweats. Following week i developed low grade fever, sore throat, rash and a spot on my genital area it was followed by angular chelitis. After 6 weeks, I experienced fever and night sweats, sore throat and angular chelitis again. After 10 week of exposure it was repeated again.
Now I have a bit yellowish in my eyes, i i dark-yellow urine. I have little pain in my right side and in my stomach too.
I read that coinfection with hcv expand window period of hiv is it true? If it's true, can it affect to only window period for antibody tests or does in have any impact on pcr tests too?
1. What type of AB test? If 3rd gen then most will know. Current AB tests are among the most accurate and specific out there.
2. Sorry, I need help with this one.
3. No. You'll need a specific AB test for that.
4. From all accounts I've read, if one is experiencing ARS, symptoms arrive in days of each other and leave around the same time though some have experienced longer lasting symptom (s).
Perhaps someone would say different but I have not heard of acute symptoms recurring or effect someone intermittently.
Keep in mind test results trump symptoms and sexual contact opens the possibility of other STDs or STIs.
What was your exposure?
2. Sorry, I need help with this one.
3. No. You'll need a specific AB test for that.
4. From all accounts I've read, if one is experiencing ARS, symptoms arrive in days of each other and leave around the same time though some have experienced longer lasting symptom (s).
Perhaps someone would say different but I have not heard of acute symptoms recurring or effect someone intermittently.
Keep in mind test results trump symptoms and sexual contact opens the possibility of other STDs or STIs.
What was your exposure?
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