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Between 3rd week of August 2005 and 10/23/05 I was sexually active. I used a condom and played as safely as I knew how. In November of 05 I got sick and noticed a tonsil stone on my left tonsil. Then I started freaking out thinking that I had HIV. (The tonsil stone comes back still.) In late Jan./early Feb. 06 I got two ulcers on the sides of my tongue and a severe double ear infection, that went away and kept me afraid that I had HIV. Then on 4/20/06 (5 months 29 days after sex.) I got tested with the Orasure HIV test and the results came back non-reactive and I was told that meant negative. On Dec. 3rd of 06 I was having a sore throat and the doctor drew blood to check for a viral infection and the blood work came back normal. Then the week before Christmas I got really sick with a 103 temp and generally feeling awful. Should I get tested for HIV again? Thank you for any help.

Between 3rd week of August 2005 and 10/23/05 I was sexually active. I used a condom and played as safely as I knew how. In November of 05 I got sick and noticed a tonsil stone on my left tonsil. Then I started freaking out thinking that I had HIV. (The tonsil stone comes back still.) In late Jan./early Feb. 06 I got two ulcers on the sides of my tongue and a severe double ear infection, that went away and kept me afraid that I had HIV. Then on 4/20/06 (5 months 29 days after sex.) I got tested with the Orasure HIV test and the results came back non-reactive and I was told that meant negative. On Dec. 3rd of 06 I was having a sore throat and the doctor drew blood to check for a viral infection and the blood work came back normal. Then the week before Christmas I got really sick with a 103 temp and generally feeling awful. Should I get tested for HIV again? Thank you for any help.
PS: No sexual activity since 10/23/05.

The HIV tests work like this:

After 25 days of potential exposure/transmission, they are 80% accurate

After 3 months they are 98.5% accurate

After 6 months, they are 99.9% accurate.

Tests today are very sensitive, much more so than they were previously.

Also, keep in mind that you used a condom, which yields an almost zero chance of transmission.

The chance you have HIV is in the 1/millions range.

That said, if you are nervous and anxious, doesn't hurt to get another test for piece of mind I suppose.

If you were HIV-negative at 5 months, it's highly unlikely that you have HIV. You may still have another STD that can present with mouth ulcers. I'm much more experienced with HIV then other STD's, but if memory serves correct Hepatitis can also present with them.

If you've been sexually active since the last HIV test though, I'd get retested, as the "generally feeling awful" could be an acute HIV infection, which is the part before you test positive with HIV, while the virus's DNA (well, actually it's RNA, but they're about the same thing) is replicating in your blood.

Rarely HIV will show up after 6 months. The sores in your oral cavity need to be looked at. No you don't have to even bring up the sex deal. The doctor can have a culture run and see what that shows. Get it done and stop worrying.

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