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HIV Prevention and Testing => Do I Have HIV? => Topic started by: Hbk001 on October 23, 2017, 01:47:55 pm
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First off, I'd like to thank everyone on here that contributes, I have been reading a lot and would love to hear back from some of you who have more knowledge about the topic. I am a 30 year old male in the US, with a few questions and concerns. A few weeks ago on a trip I visited 3 csw's within a 7 day period. I received protected oral and had protected vaginal intercourse with all 3. To my knowledge, there were no condom failures ..after each encounter the condom looked to be intact as I took it off and my understanding is that if a condom breaks, it will be very obvious? A few days ago I took a 4th gen combo test, which marked the 21st day of the first encounter, and the 14th day of the last encounter, negative. I was feeling sick yesterday, had a fever and chills..really not sure if this is from anxiety or something else. I don't really sit on google all day searching symptoms or anything but is this something I should be concerned about? I know many experts say 28th day is conclusive but does my 2-3 week test mean anything? Is there any reliability in that window period? Lastly, what kind of risk am I at having protected intercourse with a csw..as stated before I am pretty sure the condom was intact after each encounter, does that leave any chance for transmission? Thanks in advance
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Hi
Nothing you mentioned here was a risk for HIV transmission. When condoms fail they shred leaving no doubt.
So as you had no risk, no test was needed. HIV 4th generation test have the same window as any other generation of test. 3 months is conclusive. Reason is most will test positive by 28 days except a few outliers.
Not that you need to test in the first place and so my advice is move on with your life, no need to test.
Continue to use condoms and as routine test at least yearly for STI's and HIV.
Jim