{"id":2948,"date":"2010-09-14T16:58:39","date_gmt":"2010-09-14T16:58:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/?p=2948"},"modified":"2024-10-14T09:18:25","modified_gmt":"2024-10-14T09:18:25","slug":"are-the-hiv-tests-wrong-or-are-all-these-health-problems-due-to-prolonged-stress-and-my-unhealthy-lifestyle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/2948","title":{"rendered":"Are the HIV tests wrong if I still feel unwell?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Thank you for your question.<\/p>\n<p>If you have had two negative HIV tests results then you do not have HIV.<\/p>\n<p>You should speak to your doctor about your yeast infection and other symptoms so that he\/she can investigate the cause.<\/p>\n<p>Your doctor will also be able to advise you on how to go about improving your lifestyle to make it easier to manage and more healthy. Stress can cause many symptoms that people mistakenly believe are related to HIV.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am really worried about my health. I had unprotected sex in May 2008. I am worried about HIV. I have had a few symptoms in February 2010 and have chronic yeast infection. I have also had a very emotionally stresssful life for almost 7 years now and an unhealthy diet.<\/p>\n<p>I have had 2 HIV tests in 2010. One was in June 2010 and the other one was in August 2010. One was HIV-1\/2 antibody test that was done at the Labcorp and the other one was PCR with HIV-1 antibodies test and they both came back negative.<\/p>\n<p>I still have anxiety about HIV. My question is can this test be wrong or can all these health problems be due to prolonged stress and my unhealthy life style?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2948","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-all-topics","category-hiv-transmission"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2948","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=2948"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2948\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24785,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2948\/revisions\/24785"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2948"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2948"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2948"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}