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HIV Prevention and Testing => Do I Have HIV? => Topic started by: ateeqar6 on November 03, 2006, 07:46:35 pm
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Dear all I understand in uk windows period 3 months but what is it if you fir in one of the categories
mentioned on your forum ie weak immunie system or drug takeing or cancer
Regards
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Abusive hardcore IV drug users, persons on Chemo, persons taking antirejection drugs for transpants and people with severe immune suppress systems can take up to 6 months.
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ateeqar,
Even the majority of people with severe immune system problems such as the ones Rodney outlined will seroconvert and test positive by the end of the three month period. It's pretty much unheard of for a person, no matter what their health, to take longer than three months, with the majority of people testing positive by six weeks, if they're actually infected that is.
Would you like to discuss what has you worrying about window periods?
Ann
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I tested after 6 months was negative but now I am worried about my new wife and baby baby being hiv
regards
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Why does your wife cheat on you? That would be the only way for her to be infected. You are conclusively negative. Period..... You can't give something you don't have.
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Hi all! Ann's welcome guide says most people seroconvert by 3 months. Less than 1% take upto 6 months. I hope I am not splitting hairs when I say then that a 13 week test is not conclusive as it is not true for less than 1% of those that test. I have had one at 14 weeks( negative)but am still convinced I have to wait for 6 months. Perhaps it's true for low risk cases.
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It's not true only for the 1% that fall in the above catagory that was mentioned. Most people convert by 6 weeks. You don't understand you are negative period. You don't have a window period of 6 nonths. What ever your thinking is it is not fact. We've given you the facts.
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"Some testing centers may recommend testing again at six months. All but less than 1% of those who are going to seroconvert will do so within three months (seroconversion is the development of detectable antibodies to HIV in the blood as a result of infection.) It's extremely rare for seroconversion to take more than six months to develop detectable antibodies"
Rod the above is from the welcome threadand reflects what is stated elsewhere on the net. I am not being semantic I hope when I point out that it goes from less than 1%- though I have seen 2% elsewhere!-to pointing out that it rarely takes more than 6 months which is a further 3 months window.I really appreciate your comments Rod but honestly don't see how you can be right,though I wish with all my heart you were.
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Mack keep all your questions and thoughts in your own thread. If you would have bothered to read he was told that the only ones that convert later than 3 months fall in the above categorys.
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So the fact that I have tested negative after 6months whatever the risk means i should not even consider another test in the ineterest of the childs health
Regards
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You are conclusively and reliably HIV negative. Period. End of story.
Your wife and baby can't catch something from you that you don't have. Give it up right now and get on with your life. No kidding.
Cheers,
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apologies Rod! I wasn't trying to hijack the thread! I'll do as you suggest.
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So when my wifes Antinata nurse says do oi have any concerns Should i say nothing
I dont feel it is fair that I should burden my wife with this stress/concern pregnancy is stressfull enough
and when the nurse she says do you want you baby to be tested for Hiv how should i respond
Reagards
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ateeqar,
Babies are not tested for hiv unless the mother is already known to be hiv positive. Most mothers now days are tested for hiv early on in the pregnancy. There is no reason why your wife cannot take this routine hiv test. You are hiv negative and as you have been told, you cannot pass on what you do not have.
What you say to your wife's nurse is up to you.
Ann
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Hi Anne thanks for the info how early on in the pregnancy are they tested
and do i have to ask for it specifically
Regards
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ateeqar,
In the UK, antenatal hiv testing is offered as a matter of routine. They ask you and you say yes, test, or no, don't test for hiv. It's that simple. If your wife has been been having regular antenatal check ups, she's probably already been asked to test. The tests are normally run in the first trimester, unless the mother presents later.
Ann
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But i had high risk unprotected sex
doe that change anything
Regards
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No, not with a negative result. That's what the testing is for, people that had high risk exposure.
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I wish you could see my lips when I say READ MY LIPS:
You have reliably tested negative for HIV. Period. End of story.
Maybe you have some lingering guilt or whatever about the situation. That's something it would be good to not burden your relationship with so take a good deep breath and let it go.
You are HIV negative. Really.
Cheers,
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Thanks for all your help this is my testing history
Tested in june 2004 a year after incident result negative with Abbots Rapid test
Tested again in July 2004 with Elisa result negative
Tested again in 2005 November 7th , Rapid Test negative
I Am negative
Thanks again for all your help
Best wishes to all and thanks
Regards
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Negative. Negative. NEGATIVE! You ARE HIV negative.
No matter what fears crop up in your mind to the contrary you are STILL
HIV NEGATIVE. Finis.