{"id":1855,"date":"2010-05-14T17:10:02","date_gmt":"2010-05-14T17:10:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/?p=1855"},"modified":"2024-10-14T09:18:07","modified_gmt":"2024-10-14T09:18:07","slug":"i-have-had-3-negative-hiv-tests-have-i-got-hiv","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/1855","title":{"rendered":"I have had 3 negative HIV tests \u2013 have I got HIV?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Thank you for your question.<\/p>\n<p>I am sorry to hear you are unwell. If you have had 3 negative HIV tests then you do not have HIV. It could be your anxiety causing these symptoms or maybe another infection altogether.<\/p>\n<p>HIV tests are very accurate at 4 weeks after a possible exposure (they will pick up 95% of infections). By about 12 weeks they pick up more than 99.99% 0f infections.<\/p>\n<p>More importantly, these negative results rule out the possibility that HIv is causing your symptoms. If your symptoms were caused by HIV, these tests would have picked it up.<\/p>\n<p>For more information about HIV transmission and testing please follow this <a href=\"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/faq\/hiv-transmission-and-testing\">link<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I had unprotected vaginal sex with a friend 14 weeks ago. Since then I have had range of symptoms such as a white tongue, nausea, sore throat, muscle pains, pins and needles etc. I went for full STI screening at five and a half weeks and it was all clear including a 28 day, fourth generation finger prick test for HIV. Then symptoms started at week 8\/9. I had a second 28 day, fourth generation test at nine and a half weeks, it was also negative. I was still panicking so I had a third fourth generation test at eleven weeks and two days, it was again negative.<\/p>\n<p>My doctor told me there was no need to wait until twelve weeks as 4th generation tests are accurate from 28 days. I still have the symptoms. Do I have HIV?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,22,23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1855","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-all-topics","category-hiv-testing","category-hiv-transmission"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1855","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1855"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1855\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24317,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1855\/revisions\/24317"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1855"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1855"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1855"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}