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20821855 tn?1523395301

RNA + antibody test

Hello folks, recently I took 2 HIV tests after a low risk exposure (I did oral sex on a woman)
PCR - after 2 weeks / Antibody (drop blood test) - after 6 weeks
Both came out negative.
I've read from experts this combination of test results can reduce the window period but I didn't understand why.
Should I take another one on 8 weeks mark or are these results conclusive?
If someone smarter can give me an explanation I'd be very thankful :)
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Any more testing will be abnormal.
You had no HIV risk so tests were a waste of time - which is a good thing.   More testing will be abnormal.

HIV is instantly inactivated in air and also in saliva which means it is effectively dead so it can't infect from touching, external rubbing or oral activities. It doesn't matter if you and they were actively bleeding or had cuts at the time either because the HIV is effectively dead.  
Only adult risks are the following:
1. unprotected penetrating vaginal
2. unprotected penetrating anal sex
3. sharing needles that you inject with. Knowing these 3 are all you need to know to protect yourself against HIV. Your situation is a long way from any of these 3.
Even with blood, lactation, cuts, rashes, burns, etc the air or the saliva does not allow inactivated virus to infect from touching, external rubbing or oral activities. The above HIV science is 40 years old and very well established so there is no detail that you can add that will make any of your encounter a risk for HIV.  No one in 40 years of HIV history got HIV from the situation you are concerned about so it is unlikely that it will happen in the next 40 of your lifetime either.
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It doesn't make sense to me infection through this way either, being sincerely. I just tested for reassurance.
Thanks for the explanation, Anxious :)
You can't spend your life testing for all 2,000 diseases that humans are susceptible to, (and in this case are not even susceptible) so you need to live your life instead.
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