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can i trust my hiv tests

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hi everyone. my boyfriend was a real lowlife and i discovered after we broke up that he slept with a sex worker unprotected. we broke up in june. anyways, before we dated i got mono and have had chronic ebstein barr virus since. (the virus that causes mono). mono and hiv share almost identical symptoms. chronic ebv is a condition i have been learning to manage however i have such horrible health anxiety and ocd and started thinking my ebv symptoms was actually hiv. i went for a test 6 months after exposure- full std panel was negative and ebv panels were high. i was relieved but continue to experience odd symptoms (fatigue, aching, painful gums, blurry vision, anal fissures, painful lymph nodes to groin) which fuels my hiv fear so i got another test at 8 months post exposure (4th gen) and it was negative but my ebv was not. can i trust my 2 hiv neg results despite similar symptoms? i want to move on from this. i plan to see a counselor for ocd bc my worry is obsessive. i want to get a western blot to be 100% sure. thank you

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  • matthew13887
    matthew13887 Guest

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    you can fully trust your first hiv test after 6 months and most definitely you can trust your second test as well. now this advice isnt STD related. im sorry about your ex bf, but the good news is he didnt give you an std. sometimes worrying so much can make you bring symptoms out. kind of like a placebo effect just backwards in this case. fatigue can be due to your anxiety of this causing poor sleep. your gums could be gingivitis. the point is your issues can be tied to anything. for example, if you google fever, headache and coughing some sights will say you have a common cold or something ridiculously unlikely like scarlet fever. i hope this helps and you find peace of mind.

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      Guest matthew13887

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      thank you sooo much. i will try. its hard when you have a risky exposure plus symptoms. but i guess a negative test wins every time.

  • nicole87503
    nicole87503 Guest

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    Trust the tests! If they say you don't have HIV, you do not.

  • nicole87503
    nicole87503 Guest

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    Trust the tests! If they say you don't have HIV, you do not.

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