Hi there<\/p>\n
Thanks – sometimes we hear of similar experiences.<\/p>\n
When you were first diagnosed, do you know if you had a second HIV test sent to a laboratory to confirm the positive result?<\/p>\n
If this wasn’t done, the first test might have been a false positive result. The doctor should not have treated you without the second test, but sometimes this is done.<\/p>\n
If this was the case, then a regular 3rd generation HIV antigen test or 4th generation Antigen\/Antibody test will test negative now. This could be why you now test HIV negative.<\/p>\n
If you were actually HIV positive when first diagnosed, these tests would be positive now.<\/p>\n
Did you ever have a viral load test that was positive? If not, this could also mean the first HIV test was a false positive. If you ever had a detectable and high viral load test though something else might explain this.<\/p>\n
A first false positive is a much more likely explanation than anything else. There isn’t a test you can do now though to find this out.<\/p>\n
Please also talk to your doctor or clinic about this so they know you are okay now. Also so this doesn’t happen to anyone else..<\/p>\n
This is just a possible \u00a0explanation though and a doctor should confirm this.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Please I was diagnosed of HIV positive 5 years ago and have been on drug since then. About a year later, I went for another test and i was HIV negative.<\/p>\n
So I have been testing HIV negative since then and am still on drugs. I noticed the drug is weakening my body system after a year I started taking it, it really affected my body that I couldn\u2019t walk very well again. So I stopped taking the drug since last year January (2023) til now (April 2024) and am still testing negative.<\/p>\n
Please does it means testing positive is wrong right from the start?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23143","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-all-topics","category-hiv-testing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23143","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\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23143"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23143\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23219,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23143\/revisions\/23219"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23143"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23143"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23143"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}