Because your Western Blot test was negative, and you haven’t had another exposure in the last two years, you do not have HIV.<\/p>\n
The symptoms you describe are not particularly associated with HIV.<\/p>\n
Although CD4:CD8 ratio does fall to below 1 in untreated HIV infection, I’m sure other things could cause this, but this is something you need to ask your doctor about or contact a general medical site.<\/p>\n
If your doctor cannot suggest another reason, you could always re-test for HIV in the rare case that your samples were involved in a lab error.<\/p>\n
Sorry not to be able to help more.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Hello,<\/p>\n
Some background….
\nI had my HIV test done last month, the ELISA was positive but Western blot was negative. My last risk factor was about 2 years ago. I am male and 42 years old.<\/p>\n
My problem is I’m experiencing quite few problems with my body which seems to suggests its HIV related. I’ve seen a few doctors but can’t seem to find out what is the cause. My problems are:
\n– gum recession (from what i read, gum recession is usually due to a compromised immune system)
\n– burning sensation on my tongue, very sensitive to hot and spicy food
\n– occasionally stinging pain in the gums
\n– i just did my CD4 count and came back with 550. The CD4\/CD8 ratio shows 0.8 (from what I read, its quite abnormal for a non-hiv person to have CD4\/CD8 ration lower than 1)<\/p>\n
My questions are:
\n– are all these problems a manifestation of HIV\/AIDS
\n– I’ve seen quite a few doctors and they can’t seem to tell me the problem. Any suggestion what I should do to get help?<\/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-258","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\/258","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=258"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/258\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24283,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/258\/revisions\/24283"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=258"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=258"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=258"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}