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Effect of Anti-Fungal Medication on HIV test
Hi Team,
Thank you for keeping this forum active and giving straight up and real answers.
I have a question regarding the use of medications and their effect on the HIV result, tested Non-Reactive at 6 weeks, but was taking the following meds for 4 weeks during that time:
1. Itraconazole - 100 mg - once per day
2. Minocycline Hydrochloride - 100 mg - Once per day
3. Isotretinoin - 10 mg - Twice per day
Wanted to know if these will affect my test results in any way or if they will cause a false negative.
Thank you again.!!!
Thank you for keeping this forum active and giving straight up and real answers.
I have a question regarding the use of medications and their effect on the HIV result, tested Non-Reactive at 6 weeks, but was taking the following meds for 4 weeks during that time:
1. Itraconazole - 100 mg - once per day
2. Minocycline Hydrochloride - 100 mg - Once per day
3. Isotretinoin - 10 mg - Twice per day
Wanted to know if these will affect my test results in any way or if they will cause a false negative.
Thank you again.!!!
Only cancer patients take meds that might affect their result. You can go on the manufacturer's site for any medical test or drug to see what affects it, whenever you lose the package insert which explains what affects it.
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Your situation involves personal contact with an object in air (maybe blood, finger, maybe cut, anus, bruise, scratch, etc. ) . You will be happy to learn that you had no risk, because you can't get hiv from personal contact except unprotected penetrating vaginal or anal with a penis, neither of which you did and you didn't share hollow needles to inject with which is the only other way to acquire hiv - there are ONLY 3 ways to get hiv. Note that 2 of them require a penis and the third requires a hollow injecting shared needle - there are no OTHER ways to get hiv. Analysis of large numbers of infected people over the 40 years of hiv history has proven that people don't get hiv in the way you are worried is a risk.
Hiv is a fragile virus in air or saliva and is effectively instantly dead in either air or saliva so the WORST that could happen is dead virus rubbed you, and obviously anything which is dead cannot live again so you are good. Blood and cuts would not be relevant in your situation since the hiv has become effectively dead, so you don't have to worry about them to be sure that you are safe.
There is no reason for a person to test when they are safe. The advice took into consideration that the other person might be positive, so move on and enjoy life instead of thinking about this non-event. hiv prevention is straightforward since there are only 3 ways you can become infected, so next time you wonder if you had a risk, ask yourself this QUESTION. "Did I do any of the 3?" Then after you ANSWER "No, there wasn't a penis in an anus or vagina and I wasn't injected" you will know that it's time to move on back to your happy life.
No one got hiv from what you did during 40 years of hiv history and no one will get it in the next 40 years of your life either. You can do what you did any time and be safe from hiv.
The other person's status is irrelevant when you have no exposure to live virus.
If you still have questions about your risk, after reading all of the above, then it is because you didn't answer the QUESTION above.
Hiv is a fragile virus in air or saliva and is effectively instantly dead in either air or saliva so the WORST that could happen is dead virus rubbed you, and obviously anything which is dead cannot live again so you are good. Blood and cuts would not be relevant in your situation since the hiv has become effectively dead, so you don't have to worry about them to be sure that you are safe.
There is no reason for a person to test when they are safe. The advice took into consideration that the other person might be positive, so move on and enjoy life instead of thinking about this non-event. hiv prevention is straightforward since there are only 3 ways you can become infected, so next time you wonder if you had a risk, ask yourself this QUESTION. "Did I do any of the 3?" Then after you ANSWER "No, there wasn't a penis in an anus or vagina and I wasn't injected" you will know that it's time to move on back to your happy life.
No one got hiv from what you did during 40 years of hiv history and no one will get it in the next 40 years of your life either. You can do what you did any time and be safe from hiv.
The other person's status is irrelevant when you have no exposure to live virus.
If you still have questions about your risk, after reading all of the above, then it is because you didn't answer the QUESTION above.
Your test was a waste of time.
We don't answer questions here without a risk given. What was your risk?
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Anal Fingering (Rubbing not penetration) with a small scratch/bruise near anus.
Thank you. See, you could have started with that. You had no risk. The only risks for HIV are to have unprotected vaginal and anal sex or share IV needles to inject drugs. You had no risk. Rubbing, not penetrating is ZERO risk including with scratches and bruises in the area. No risk.
Okay, thank you so much for your quick response.!
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