What i your opinion on this?? Medical?

3 years ago... I was diagnosed with testicular cancer and went through chemo therapy and luckily I recovered from it... unknowing this past Sept. I found out that I had AIDS. What make me mad is that i had it for 10 years!!!!
I think that the doctors should have caught it when I had cancer with a simple test before starting chemo =(
what do you think??

yes ten years is a long time to not know about something so serious. I don't blame yo for being mad at all, i would be fuming. Luckily you recovered from cancer but this you won't recover from. Have you thought about talking to a lawyer or looking more into this, im not sure if you can, but i think you need some justice x

An AIDS test is not a standard blood test given to patients. You have to either request it yourself, or there needs to be reason for the doctor to order the test (it IS standard when pregnant, for example.). Unless they do a blood test with your consent, you could go a lifetime without ever knowing about it.

It's unrealistic, not to mention extremely costly, to expect the medical professionals to test everyone for everything regularly. It that was the reality, then whenever I go to the doctor for a cold then he'd be testing me for every other disease on the planet!

It is your personal responsibility to get tested for AIDS/HIV regularly if you think you are at risk for it. I'm scared for anyone you've had sex with for the past ten years, because YOU couldn't be bothered to have been tested for it. I'm sorry, I know I sound rude, but it's true. YOU are the one who should have kept up with your personal health...got tested every six months if you were at risk, which obviously you were.

there are different blood tests that have to be performed, and each you need a seperate vial of blood. for example, if you were being tested to check your liver enzymes, they're not going to do a drug test. in your situation, they were testing to see the spread of the cancer, not to see if you had aids. im very sorry, and i hate to sound rude, but its your responsibility to get tested, not your testicular cancer dr.

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