thanks again, i really appreciate it :-)!
It will have no effect on your test results.
Thanks Dr.HHH,
Your Professional opinion helped to decrease the anxiety and guilt i had about the encounter, (first and last time ever engaging with a Sex Worker)
and my family knew about the incident due to extreme stress. I am happy to report that I took my 12 week conclusive Insti Hiv test which was negative :-). I hope to move on, started doing charity work once a week for homeless in Toronto area.
I just have one lingering question, I was prescribed APO-TERA 250mg Capsules (Tetracycline), the course was for a total for 7 days which ended on August 25th!
The reason i ask is, the info sheet for Tetracycline states that "This Medicine May Affect certain lab test results. Male Sure laboratory personnel and your doctors know you use this medicine.
I took my test yesterday Sept 15th (a full 21 days after my last pill), and i right to assume that this Will not affect my results, since it is an antibiotic?
I am sorry, this will be my last post, i will move on, thanks!
This forum has no advice about non-HIV, non-STD symptoms. But certainly I don't recommend treating irritated parts of the body with additional irritants (which I believe is what green tea oil is). People with unexplained symptoms should try gentle, common sense things (maybe a moisturizing oil?), and see a health care provider if the problem continues.
Thanks Dr.HHH,
Do you have any recommendations for the heat i am experiencing? Should I soak in a bath with green tea oil (Diluted?). Do u have any suggestions? Further testing?
The shaved genitals/HIV risk question has been discussed many times on this forum. There is no known increased risk of HIV transmission as a result of genital area shaving, and there are all kinds of biological and anatomic reasons for no signficant enhanced risk. Further, as we have pointed out incessantly on this forum, in the US and most industrialized countries it is the relatively rare sex worker who has HIV. Finally, we have also pointed out repeatedly that 1) with modern HIV antibody tests, newly infected people always have positive results within 6-8 weeks (i.e., your 52 day test is highly reliable) and 2) such test results always outweigh other potential risk indicators, like possible exposure, symptoms, etc. And your symptoms don't hint at HIV anyway.
Bottom line: All is well. Your risk of HIV was virtually zero due to the condom use plus low chance your partner had HIV; your test results show you weren't infected; and neither your genital shaving nor your symptoms changes that judgment.
Best wishes. Stay safe-- HHH, MD