Hiv concerns for false negatives?!


Question: Hiv concerns for false negatives!?
hi i was just wondering if anything like immune helping vitamins ect could give you a false negative test result for hiv!? also smoking marijuana could stuff up the results!?Www@Answer-Health@Com


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HIV will not go undetected!. If you have both tested after 3 month (which it sounds like) you are negative!. The only way HIV is undetected is when people don't test!. People can go 10-12 years with out a sign of being HIV+, but once a person tests, they know!. The only thing is there is a 3 month window period !. And you are both well past that!.

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I actually feel prepared to answer this one, I just attended an 8 hour seminar with my physician colleagues on HIV!. Although it was a boring seminar, there was some good info!. To answer your question, no, you can't get false positives with HIV!. To test for HIV, they will draw blood and look for antibodies!. Your body produces antibodies in response to it's detection of the virus in your blood!. Your body won't produce those particular antibodies in response to anything but HIV!. Another test is one to check for the HIV antigen!. And a definite no regarding whether anything but HIV will produce that particular antigen!.

Are you asking about a false negative (getting a negative blood test for HIV when in fact you DO have HIV), or are you asking about a false positive (getting a positive reading for HIV when in fact you DON'T have HIV)!? Because either way the answer is no!.

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