{"id":348,"date":"2008-03-25T11:02:08","date_gmt":"2008-03-25T10:02:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.i-base.info\/qa\/?p=348"},"modified":"2024-10-14T09:15:40","modified_gmt":"2024-10-14T09:15:40","slug":"testing-question","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/348","title":{"rendered":"Testing question"},"content":{"rendered":"

You are not likely to have HIV. Your risk was negligible if it was a risk at all. Your ‘symptoms’ are more likely to be stress. Don’t beat yourself up just for using a commercial sex worker. you have not ruined your life.<\/p>\n

Information on different tests are included here <\/a>in answer to an earlier question.<\/p>\n

I’m not sure if there is added value for private tests – this is your personal choice – if the test offered is an antibody+antigen test, then they are sensitive 4 weeks after exposure. There is no benefit for paying for a PCR (viral load) test as these are expensive and add nothing to the information from the joint antibody+antigen test.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I had sex with a woman who I paid to have sex with me in the UK which was protected, until the condom broke. As soon as i realised i withdrew from the girl, however have developed many problems since.<\/p>\n

Week 1 – I went to the GUM clinic after developing a problem while urinating. I was given doxycyline, and told i had some kind of urehthal virus.<\/p>\n

Week 2 – I felt very dizzy\/had severe mouth problems and went to my local gp, who advised me to stop taking doxycyline and he prescribed me ciproflaxacin. I was taking this for a few days, then started having diarrhea. I phoned the surgery and the doctor told me to stop taking it. Meanwhile my tests from the GUM clinic came back all negative (for any stds and hiv).<\/p>\n

Week 3 – Developed a mild flu, and more recently as in today have got pain under my arms. I’m thinking its the lymph nodes. I have been very stressed, and spend all day looking on the internet. I am almost certain I have had most of the ars symptoms (although they have been not altogether), and contracted HIV.<\/p>\n

I was stupid to go and see an escort, im relatively young (in my twenties), and spoil the rest of my life.<\/p>\n

I wanted to ask about testing. The gum clinic have told me to come back at the three month mark. However, as I have devleoped most of the symptoms already, would the 4 week test advertised at most private clinics be a good indicator of my HIV status?<\/p>\n

many thanks for your advice<\/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-348","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\/348","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=348"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/348\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24256,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/348\/revisions\/24256"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=348"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=348"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=348"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}