The vast majority of people who test for HIV have been at very low risk of catching HIV.<\/p>\n
Over 99% of tests each year in the UK produce HIV negative results.<\/p>\n
While it sounds like you are worrying a lot about this now, HIV is a very difficult virus to catch sexually, especially if you do not know your partner was even HIV-positive. Even then the risk is estimated as perhaps 1 in 300 for anal sex any 1 in 1000 for vaginal sex.\u00a0These are only estimated figures just to give you an idea that the risk from one exposure is generally low. If your partner was HIV-positive and on treatment, these risk would be even lower still.<\/p>\n
I don’t know anything of your circumstances, but medically, nothing would be different if you found out you were positive a few days earlier.<\/p>\n
Whether you want to spend \u00a3100 on a private test is your personal decision, but in the UK there is no need to do this, as routine fourth generation tests such as DUO will detect 95% of infections by 4 weeks after exposure.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Hi<\/p>\n
I fell so lost. I put myself in a very risky situation. I have been to my GP and they suggested if i was this nervous they would order me a multiplex test. I searched online and called the lab where they do the testing. They said the test is 99% accurate after 10 days however I have to wait 7 days from the day I send the sample back, so that would be thursday they get it and then if it takes 5 days to do – 11th august then 1-2 days for post? bringing my exposure to exactly 3 weeks, on that day?<\/p>\n
Should i just test next monday with a duo for free – at 17 days would that give me a good indication or should i wait? or go for that test please any advice is greatly appreciated – this test is also costing me 96.00 which i don't mind but its the time frame.<\/p>\n
Thanks <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,22,23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2528","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\/2528","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=2528"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2528\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24469,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2528\/revisions\/24469"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2528"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2528"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2528"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}