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Author Topic: Help I need some peace of mind?!  (Read 2394 times)

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Offline brokenwingz

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Help I need some peace of mind?!
« on: September 29, 2013, 11:55:38 pm »
I was with a guy for 3 months. The last month we became sexually active. He never wanted to use a condom and we had sex probably 10 times over the course of the month. We stopped dating because a girl started texting me informing me she was his girlfriend. 2 weeks later I get an anonymous phone call from a girl informing me he is HIV positive. I contacted him and he confirmed it and told me he has been taking stribilt for the last year and that his viral count is undetectable. I am extremely scared, I feel like and idiot for believing his lies, I am going crazy. I was tested immediately after the girl initially texted me and I was positive for chlamydia and negative for everything else including hiv. I know that i need to retest every couple months for a while to be sure whether I contracted HIV. Any advice or words of wisdom would be appreciated....Im going out of my mind.

Offline Jeff G

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Re: Help I need some peace of mind?!
« Reply #1 on: September 30, 2013, 12:09:51 am »

The testing window period is 6 weeks past exposure and again at 3 months to confirm the results . It will only add to your anxiety if you over test , so if you test at 6 weeks and again at 3 months you will have your answer .

If he is indeed undetectable there is a good chance you will come out of this OK .
« Last Edit: September 30, 2013, 12:17:56 am by Jeff G »
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