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OraQuick Has anyone here experience with false negative
Hello,
sorry for my english. I am from germany and i hope to find answears of my question here in your forum.
Unlike in the US, home HIV tests like OraQuick are not permitted in Germany. I have no idea why... Maybe the sensitivity...
9 years ago i had a exposure risk with a woman. 9 years I thought nothing of it... But now i have some symptoms which let me search in the internet...
Now the result is panic... I ordered 3 OraQick Advance test kits in the Internet. All of them where negativ.
Now i read that the sensitivity is only about 92%.
My questions are:
One can be false... but the second and the third too?
Has anyone here experience? Is the sensitivity after 3 the same?
Is there someone who has been tested false negative? I searched so much but i never found a real statement that sombody says... Yes i tested wrong.
Maybe someone can answer my questions here. The test is so widespread in the US.
Regards
Dab
sorry for my english. I am from germany and i hope to find answears of my question here in your forum.
Unlike in the US, home HIV tests like OraQuick are not permitted in Germany. I have no idea why... Maybe the sensitivity...
9 years ago i had a exposure risk with a woman. 9 years I thought nothing of it... But now i have some symptoms which let me search in the internet...
Now the result is panic... I ordered 3 OraQick Advance test kits in the Internet. All of them where negativ.
Now i read that the sensitivity is only about 92%.
My questions are:
One can be false... but the second and the third too?
Has anyone here experience? Is the sensitivity after 3 the same?
Is there someone who has been tested false negative? I searched so much but i never found a real statement that sombody says... Yes i tested wrong.
Maybe someone can answer my questions here. The test is so widespread in the US.
Regards
Dab
Thx for your assessment... As I said I really appreciate the experience here... That's why I want to find out the reason of the high amount of false negative results... In the Internet you find only the same information... But no real experience... No real statement...
A 3 month test is conclusive. I think you're a little further along than 3 months.
That's the next what I want to do... I don't know why... But I feel more comfortable when I know that the test which I made is safe too... Next week I go to a doctor... You never heard about a false negative after some years tested with oraquick?
Thx Vance...
here in germany i cant get informations about the oraquick test. Thats why i ask here in a US Forum. I am sure many people used this test. And i ask myself why the hell there is only 92% right negative rate. What is with the other 8% what was the mistake? Why the didnt test positiv when the people are positiv. And maybe there were people who uded this test after 9 years with the wrong result....
That make me crazy
here in germany i cant get informations about the oraquick test. Thats why i ask here in a US Forum. I am sure many people used this test. And i ask myself why the hell there is only 92% right negative rate. What is with the other 8% what was the mistake? Why the didnt test positiv when the people are positiv. And maybe there were people who uded this test after 9 years with the wrong result....
That make me crazy
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