{"id":586,"date":"2008-09-24T11:31:43","date_gmt":"2008-09-24T10:31:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.i-base.info\/qa\/?p=586"},"modified":"2024-10-14T09:16:09","modified_gmt":"2024-10-14T09:16:09","slug":"several-questions-on-testing-and-exposure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/586","title":{"rendered":"Several questions on testing and exposure"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well,<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ll be really quick in answering all your questions. If the tests show that you are HIV-negative, then you are HIV-negative and do not need to worry. As for the STDs-same goes there, apart from HepC, which may take longer. Generally speaking,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hello,<br \/>\nOn looking back at some of the other posts, my question is quite similar, although I&#8217;ll ask it anyway, as I have some side questions.<\/p>\n<p>1. Would a rapid insti test at a private UK clinic 4 months after last exposure no matter how serious be conclusive? This test followed 2 HIV duo tests at 4 and 10 weeks (all negative).<br \/>\n2. Do these tests cover all variations of HIV (including Africa)?<br \/>\n3. Will any vaccinations against yellow fever etc. slow down the production of antibodies?<br \/>\n4. Will a combination of HIV or other STDs increase the window period past 3 months?<br \/>\n5. Is the 3 month window period correct for modern tests, I notice some countries like oz say 6-8 weeks.<br \/>\n6. I was tested for all other STDs at 10 weeks (negative) is this conclusive?<br \/>\nTo conclude, I had a one off episode in Africa (unprotected oral both ways, and what I&#8217;m pretty sure was protected full sex but unsure, because of alcohol even though there was a used condom, so I&#8217;m going for worst case senario-unprotected. I have had some  muscle and joint pain post 2 months of the event which have carried on for months&#8230;I thought I had  swollen lymph nodes but the doc couldn&#8217;t find any and I&#8217;ve also had a tingling sensation on my tongue.  these symptoms seem too late for seroconversion and too early for the second stage, so could be anxiety; do you agree???<\/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-586","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\/586","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=586"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/586\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24376,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/586\/revisions\/24376"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=586"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=586"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=586"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}