[Question #11184] Could hiv be missed?

16 months ago

Hello doctors. Still to this day having abdominal pain, oral issues, anemia, and various other symptoms. I have had countless test of different sorts over the past six years. My last ones were hiv 1 & 2 RNA Qualitative 12/2023 along with 4th gen(both neg) then most recently another 4th 2/29/2024 With quest which was negative. What concerns me is my symptoms, but now wife has developed sarcoidosis, and her neutrophils are low along with high eosinophils. It very much worries me that I have some weird hiv that isn't picked up.

1)is there any chance that with multiple negative tests over the last 6-10 years with lots of different serologic, molecular tests, that hiv somehow could be slipping by without displaying markers of infection?

2)I have a new thyroid nodule, wife now has this, son has thyroid issues, Worries me that all this is intertwined somehow.

And it is an elusive sort of hiv. Is this possible?

3)she is outright healthy, but would the low neutrophil % high eosinophil % concern you regarding hiv?

4)is there even reason to mention my hiv concern to her regarding myself?

5)would ANY sort of hiv be found if I truly had it with all tests?

6) do you feel that no matter what symptoms WE HAVE, that WE can truly be CONFIDENT it isn't HIV?

Thank you, but all these new labs are making me really sorry that it's a sort of hiv virus unable to be picked up by the testing.

H. Hunter Handsfield, MD

16 months ago

These are repeat questions that you have asked and had answered repeatedly in nine threads over two years -- or the answers are obvious from those discussions.

From Dr. Hook's closing comments last time: "Please do not return to the site. Should you, your thread will be closed without a reply and without return of your posting fee." This policy is based on compassion, not criticism, and is intended to reduce temptations to keep paying for questions with obvious answers. In addition, experience shows that continued answers tend to prolong users' anxieties rather than reducing them. Finally, such questions have little educational value for other users, one of the forum's main purposes.

You do not have HIV. If you feel you still need our advice about it, read your previous threads and concentrate on every word. I also suggest you seek counseling to address why you are unable to believe, absorb, or otherwise accept and understand the repeated, reasoned, science-based advice you have had, probably from your own doctor(s) in addition to this forum. Clearly there is an underlying mental health issue or unresolved anxieties, perhaps about sexual choice(s) you regret. Like the request about posting repeated questions, this advice also is based on compassion and genuine concern for you and should not be viewed as a criticism.

Any future attempts will not receive even this much reply. Thank you for your understanding, Best wishes to you.

HHH, MD

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