{"id":2012,"date":"2010-06-10T10:15:54","date_gmt":"2010-06-10T10:15:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/?p=2012"},"modified":"2024-10-14T09:18:06","modified_gmt":"2024-10-14T09:18:06","slug":"is-it-possible-that-the-virus-can-hide-from-the-tests","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/2012","title":{"rendered":"Can the virus  hide from tests?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Thank you for your question.<\/p>\n<p>You cannot know if you caught HIV or not. Only a test will tell you the answer to this. You have had several tests all of which were negative. You do not have HIV. The tests look for an immune response that shows in any blood sample, so this is not a question of the virus hiding. Your symptoms may be a result of anxiety or another infection altogether.<\/p>\n<p>If you are worried about putting your wife at risk then you should follow this <a href=\"http:\/\/www.avert.org\/howcan.htm\">link <\/a> to read about how protect yourself from HIV infection.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hi,<\/p>\n<p>7 weeks ago I had sex with someone who is HIV positive. 8 days after the encounter I develop muscle aches joint pains headaches and shortness of breath. It last for 26 days and now I have the same symptoms but not as bad as the first 26 days. I have been to the doctor 5 times in they haven\u2019t found anything.<\/p>\n<p>Last week I had a RNA PCR test and a rapid antibody test they both came back negative. Is it possible that the virus can be hidden in the body? Before the incident I was in good shape I\u2019m 26 years old and never had a problem with my health, should I go to a HIV specialist because I\u2019m almost positive that I caught the virus and I don\u2019t want to put my wife at risk?<\/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-2012","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\/2012","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=2012"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2012\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24502,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2012\/revisions\/24502"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2012"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2012"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2012"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}