[Question #118] HIV Risk - Anxiety Need Help Dr. Handsfield
110 months ago
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Dr.
Handsfield:
Please
help me
The facts
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10 months (24th of November) ago I had a
protected vaginal sex with a sexworker, I was completely drunk, however I’m
aware I used condom, and as far I remember it didn’t break, however as I was so
drunk it has been hunting me the idea that it brooked and I didn’t realize it.
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I’m married this is the first time I have a sexual
encounter with another person.
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15 days after this encounter I did a ag/ab
Axsym (Meia) test Blood drawn and it came out negative
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8 weeks after this encounter I had some fever (37°5
C), it only lasted one day, the doctor gave me antibiotics and it went away.
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60 days after this risk I took another test ag/ab
Axsym (Meia) test blood drawn and it came out negative
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A month ago I had a canker sore and after that
another one and so on, total 4.
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I understand that this was a low risk exposure and
that my results came negative, however I have developed an obsession and
anxiety over the risk of having HIV and affecting my love ones, so I have spent
a lot of time searching on different sites, I’m very anxious and stressed (also
ashamed and with a huge regret).
After analyzing my
situation I believe it would help me to get answers directly from the best on
the field, and that is how I came to your name.
I know the tests overrule
the risks and that, however a panic of a false negative don’t let me relax. I
would help me and give me reassurance if you could answer me the following
questions (I will print the answers and every time I start getting stressed I
will look at it)
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Was I ever at risk of HIV?
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Was it an important risk?
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Is it an ag/ab Axsym (Meia) blood drawn at a lab a
good test?
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I know the 15 day test is not conclusive however is
it useful at all, does it gives any indication?
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Is the 60 day ag/ab Axsym (meia) test (8,5 weeks)
conclusive?
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What is the risk of a false negative
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Did the fever I had could be the acute infection?
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Did the antibiotic could have any effect on the
results of the test?
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Has the canker sores alone without any other symptom
(not candida, just a aphtasus sore) may have to do with the weak system or it
is more my stress and anxiety?
I would appreciate your answer, sorry if I had any misspelling mistake
(English is not my first language)
Thanks Dr.
H. Hunter Handsfield, MD
109 months ago
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109 months ago
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109 months ago
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H. Hunter Handsfield, MD
109 months ago
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109 months ago
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Doctor:
Is not
so easy on google to find what AxSym really is, it is shown as a Machine not as
a test, and when I look for ag/ab tests it always comes as
"Arquitect" or other names not as AxSym, that is why I was wondering
if this AxSym test was good or not. It seems that Abbot has several tests with
different names, it is confusing in the google.
Anyway,
I wanted to thank you and Dr. Hook for all the help you have been give through
the years on the Internet, definitely both of you have made a major contribution
and have help a lot to all the anxious
and irrational people like me that finds hard to believe their negative tests
and spend hours searching on the Internet inexistent and imaginary risks.
Thanks
for your patience to answer over and over the same questions to people that are
in a very irrational state.
You can
close this thread. Thanks again
H. Hunter Handsfield, MD
109 months ago
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