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Should I test again?
First of all thank you for taking time out of you day to help me. I'm a 22 year old male who had unprotected oral sex with another men. I don't think I had any cuts I my mouth, and the oral sex happen in the morning before we could brush our teeth. I had oral sex with him two times, the first happend on 3/28, and the second happend on 4/13. Later I got nervous and decided that I should get tested, and I asked him if he was negative, and he said yes. I got tested on 05/19 ( 36 days ), and it was negative ( QraQuick). My question is should I have any more testing done? I wanted to tested after 8 weeks, but I'm afriad it may be Indeterminate or false-positive. I won't bother with symptoms because I know thier not reliable, but I've had some swollen lymph nodes in the 8th week ( right side of my neck, armpits, and groin), but I think that they are from being in the rain. I'm a wreck! I don't know what to do. Should I just move on?
MEDICAL PROFESSIONAL
I already did. EWH
Dr. Hook,
I just test negative after 9 weeks. would you way that I'm in the clear now?
I just test negative after 9 weeks. would you way that I'm in the clear now?
MEDICAL PROFESSIONAL
It sounds as though you are doing all the right things and thinking about this clearly, i.e. carefully considering your risks, working to avoid anxiety driven over-testing (it's hard) because of concerns regarding false positive tests, etc. Let's analyze your risk-
2 episodes of unprotected oral sex. Each exposure has an average risk of 1 in 10,000 if your partner was infected, this, if he was infected, your odds of infection are 1 in 5,000.
Your partner claims to be negative, thus he probably is.
You have a negative test at slightly more than 5 weeks at a time when 85-90% of all tests will be positive.
Putting all of this together, at this time I would put your chance of being infected at somewhere in the range of less than 1 in 100,000. Retesting at 8 weeks will increase those odds 10-fold ( to about 1 in a million). You have to decide if it is worthwhile. If the anxiety is getting to you I would either get tested yourself at 8 weeks or, better still, get your partner to test now. If he is negative, then you have no reason for further testing for this exposure. Either way your risk is tiny. Good luck. EWH
2 episodes of unprotected oral sex. Each exposure has an average risk of 1 in 10,000 if your partner was infected, this, if he was infected, your odds of infection are 1 in 5,000.
Your partner claims to be negative, thus he probably is.
You have a negative test at slightly more than 5 weeks at a time when 85-90% of all tests will be positive.
Putting all of this together, at this time I would put your chance of being infected at somewhere in the range of less than 1 in 100,000. Retesting at 8 weeks will increase those odds 10-fold ( to about 1 in a million). You have to decide if it is worthwhile. If the anxiety is getting to you I would either get tested yourself at 8 weeks or, better still, get your partner to test now. If he is negative, then you have no reason for further testing for this exposure. Either way your risk is tiny. Good luck. EWH
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