Teak, LFanswers 5 years testing ??

[2muchdrama]

Hi I did little reading why is he posted false stories about 5 year testing period. CDC send me Booklet about HIV TESTING . The rare cases was saying 6 months but all cases 3 months. I talked to Doctors at local hospital and they also told me 3 and 6 rare. if that was 5 years this whole world would be spreading it to anybody. Can you clear this

[Frank303]

Clinicians have experience of HIV testing and risk as-essment. They are also able to use knowledge-based judmement in determning if someone medically needs to test further than the 3 month guideline. A guideline is a *guideline* remember not a solid rule. Public health agencies CDC, HPA, HPS, and Sexual health professional bodies (e.g. BASHH) are aware the datasets the guidelines are made up from are limited as the individual cases within those datasets may contain erroneus exposure dates.

An accurate and realistic study of seroconversion time will never be done. It would require more exact exposure times and known hIV+ sources. The only accurate way of doing that is to introduce the virus to people at known times and test every day until seroconversionThat is obviously unethical.
The other way is if the individuals in the studies only had one exposure. By the nature of the infectivity of the virus those with only one known exposure statistiacally will vey probably not seroconvert.

Remember many people who do tset positive have had repeated risks and basing that  individuals exposure date as the last exposure (when they may have contracted the virus at an earlier exposure) would not provide accurate datasets. When rik in terms of HIV is poken about it is patterns of risk not incidental risk. By nature high risk behaviour taking people are unable to pinpoint their exact exposure. Many of the people posting here, it has been pointed out by the Doctors, could pinpoint the hour, perhaps the minute of  exposure and actually have low probability of seroconverting.

[LFanswers]

tell the same to everyone and their "rumors" and "stories" and " a clinic told me" nonsense.

[mike12565]

This is not a place to use sarcasm bro. People come here to get advice and help. Lots of them are worried and scared. Next time try a pub and entertain some people with your sarcasm there.

[LFanswers]

it was sarcasm, and I posted it because there were other people posting also unaccurate info.

People continue time and again caliming that a 6 months testing is needed if you were high risk, that is WRONG, 3 months is conclusive for everyone. 6 Months is in the very minuscule posibility that you are having SERIOUS health problems to produce antibodies, not if your risk was high.

sorry not being clear in my sarcasm.