kindly help

[nurav14]

i m a 26 yr male, hving a very loving n sweet gf...m going to marry her in next few mnths.....m in a good job,.....24 days ago  i went to attend a seminar in companies head office where i met my seniors and boozed up high...i was blacked out nd when i opened my eyes i was in a local brothel with my seniors...they were taking girl so do i took one...i allways have spare durex condom in my wallet...i was having sex with her when i notice condom is broke totally...i stopped and shocked...i asked her if she is having some infection her ans ws no, i sweared that till time i will get tested i will not have unprotected sex with my gf..when i came back my gf jumped on me nd we had unprotected sex, this kept on for next few days, after 9 days my gf complained me of some red dots on her tounge which give pain during swallowing food, she also told mild pain in her lymph nodes under neck, i told her to drink more water n this will go away, they went away after 2 days, then she had sever headache that lasted for 40 hours, then again one ulcer pooped out under her tounge that lasted for 3 days and again her lymph nodes starting paining while touching under neck, armpit and groin region. now when ulcer is gone then again she has got red dots on her tounge along with pain in her lymph nodes...its been 16 days till we had sex... i asked a frnd of mine who is doc, he told me to give her antibiotic, i gave her and all her problems were vanished in 2 days, till that day she didnt had any prob. m not feeln any symptoms...but really getting worried n stressed watching her.....plz advice.....

[Joe K]

You did have a risk from the broken condom, to what extent we cannot determine because you are unsure of what happened.  Because you had a risk, the only way to know your status is to test and since you had unprotected sex with your girlfriend, she will need to test as well.

You can test 6 weeks past any possible exposure and again at 3 months to confirm the results.

Anyone who is sexually active should be having a full sexual health care check-up, including but not limited to HIV testing, at least once a year and more often if unprotected intercourse occurs.

If you aren't already having regular, routine check-ups, now is the time to start.  As long as you make sure condoms are being used for intercourse, you can fully expect your routine HIV tests to return with negative results.

Don't forget to always get checked for all the other sexually transmitted infections as well, because they are MUCH easier to transmit than HIV.  Some of the other STDs can be present with no obvious symptoms, so the only way to know for sure is to test.

Use condoms for anal or vaginal intercourse, correctly and consistently, and you will avoid HIV infection. It really is that simple!

Joe

[nurav14]

tx...m just waitin for six weeks..i will go for test, sir but my gf symptoms disappeared after antibiotic....can hiv related symtoms cured with antibiotic?

[Joe K]

tx...m just waitin for six weeks..i will go for test, sir but my gf symptoms disappeared after antibiotic....can hiv related symtoms cured with antibiotic?

No, HIV symptoms cannot be cured by antibiotics.  HIV is a virus, whereas antibiotics work against bacteria.

Joe

[nurav14]

tested neg after 5 weeks test....also did pcr dna which also came neg,,...can i b sure now or still have to do test again?

[Ann]

nurav,

Long answer:

DNA PCR testing is not supposed to be used as a diagnostic test. Any PCR result - positive or negative - must still be confirmed with standard antibody testing at the appropriate time.

The vast majority of people who have actually been infected will seroconvert and test hiv antibody positive by six weeks, with the average time to seroconversion being only 22 days.

A six week negative MUST be confirmed at the three month point, but is highly unlikely to change.

Short answer:

You need to confirm your negative result at three months. There are no short-cuts to obtaining a conclusive negative hiv antibody result.

Ann