Hello doctors,
My experience was more than six months ago,I will describe it briefly :Receiving unprotected oral,protected vaginal sex, also fresh wound on my finger.
I did following test:HIV 1/2 CMIA after 6,8,13,17,24 weeks all Negative
then i did one final test which was exactly after 6 months(in different country),the result was:
HIV 1/2: 0.86 Negative (reference ranges: up to 1)
they wrote the index value this time.
i have persistent cough since 4 months,i went to many doctors without being able to diagnoses it! and i am afraid that maybe it could be related to HIV infection.
In one post,Dr.Edward has mentioned that if the person is infected with rare hiv strain,his result will be equivocal and need further testing.as i understand the equivocal result means index value higher than 0.9.My index value is 0.86,means only 0.04 far from the borderline ! actually that made me really scared specially that the most of results i've read here were below 0.4.However,i have been told form the lab doctor that there is no overlapping between positive and negative curves and that the shadow region is no longer exist,but still worried about rare HIV strains.
my questions are:
1- Regardless of my previous test results,is my index value result 0.86 considered equivocal? is it considered high and maybe need more test or is it normal? is there any interpretation why it is 'high'?
2- I have been told from one doctor that even if one is HIV+,he will not have such persistent cough in the early stage (after two months) maybe after some years when his immune system goes down.
i need your opinion doctors,Is the persistent cough assigned with HIV early infection?
3- Are my tests cover all HIV strains and i am now conclusively negative taking in account my final result with index value of 0.86 and no further test is required?
4-With the new test technology are there any cases where the seroconvert occurred after 6 months?
Thank you so much.