Tests are pefectly fine with any sub-type. If they say that you are HIV-negative, then you are HIV-negative.<\/p>\n
May I suggest, however, that you see a councellor or a clinical psychologist, as paranoia may have a very detiriorating effect on your quality of life.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
I had 1 x unprotected exposure with a woman who I paid to have sex with me in Thailand on 26th May, then 4 x unprotected exposures with another Thai sex worker between 28th May and 4th June.<\/p>\n
When I returned (Thursday 5th June) I had NSU and got given 2 x antibiotic pills to take in one sitting.<\/p>\n
On Saturday 7th June I awoke with a big swollen red rash down the side of my nose which had an insect bite in the middle.<\/p>\n
A week later I was playing football and received 2 x insect bites on the leg. I awoke the next day with my whole calf swollen. It swelled up so much I developed pain and bruising.
\nI then started to develop pins and needles all over my body which then developed into a burning sensation in my feet.<\/p>\n
This lasted a couple of weeks. In the meantime I also got night sweats, lost my appetite and bread started to taste of cardboard .
\nI also had neurological headaches and my tongue felt metallic.<\/p>\n
Since then the neuropathy has changed from pins and needles \/ burning into sharp pains in my hands and feet.<\/p>\n
I have had a number of tests which have all come back negative but I fear that these tests will be looking primarily for subtype B, not subtype AE, which is what I may have caught in Thailand.<\/p>\n
The tests I have had so far are:<\/p>\n
HIV \/ P24 Antigen Duo test at 3-4 weeks since exposure (private London)
\nViral load PCR test at 4-5 weeks since exposure (private London)
\nHIV Antibody test 6 weeks after last exposure (NHS)
\nHIV Viral load test 6 weeks after exposure (NHS)
\nHIV P24 Antigen Duo test 8 weeks after exposure (private London clinic)<\/p>\n
All of these tests have come back negative but I have read that they might not be sensitive enough to detect subtype E.
\nAlso, with my symptoms being so pronounced and in the HIV symptom timeline I don’t feel confident.<\/p>\n
I’m still experiencing neuropathic pain in my hands and feet although the other symptoms have gone now.<\/p>\n
If you could let me know what the latest thinking is on UK viral load tests for subtype AE that would great.<\/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-534","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\/534","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=534"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/534\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24384,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/534\/revisions\/24384"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=534"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=534"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=534"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}