Anyway, the test was a rapid test, where they prick your finger and put in a little contraption that looks like a pregnancy test and then you wait 15 minutes. This test came back negative. How effective is the rapid test? Should I get a ELISA test to confirm that its negative? Any help is greatly appreciated.
Few days later (total 10 days after exposure) I went to medical center and took an ELISA test the result is negative. At the same time I came down with diarrhea for few weeks. About 2 weeks later I experienced rash at neck and armpit. It is recovered now.
Please find my question below
1. Does the ELISA test result accurate after the dizziness and fatigue happened first?
2. In fact I experienced the dizziness suddenly during walking in a shopping mall.
hmm, I think you have a pretty good reason to start reading all you can about Lyme disease, btw there is no "s" in lyme disease.
Here's what I did:
go to lymenet.org
click on Flash Discussions
then Medical Questions it's a large site filled with lymies and they offer tons and tons of support and info. There's a link called Newbie Links on the Medical Section. I would also suggest you post this very question there.
other sites to visit..ILADS.org canlyme.
The first lab again was an IFA test, and just the HSV1 was positive. HSV was negative. On the second lab it was an ELISA test (the test sensitivity says 99% for HSV1 and 92% for HSV2) and it was negative on both. Although compared to the last month ELISA test, the values for HSV1 were a little bit higher this time (5.6 vs. 4.4 of a lower than 9 scale for negative).
I called both labs and told them the contradictory results. On the lab with positive results they retook the test.
i am gay, i had an exposure last two weeks, i swallowed semen but we are protected, last december he had an HIV test using ELISA which tested negatively.. today i have sore throat, sinusitis and cough. is it possible for me to get infected though he was tested negatively ? and how effective is ELISA for detection ?
All i can say is i wish you well, if its after 3months then put your feet up-relax and never do it again, abstinance is the best defense, ive had 3 elisa one pcr and next week i go for another elisa (week 6) i have all the symptoms of sero illness and am as scared to death.I feel ive just screwed up a very bright future that i had.
That said i wish you all the best from the bottom of my heart.If you are negative dont take any more chances...not even with a condom.
It has been 30 days since my last encounter and I got the Elisa test today just to feel at ease. The nurse at the testing center said after 14 days you can get the Elisa test and if negative not to worry, but if I am absolutely positive I have HIV I should get retested at the 3 month mark if I didn't trust the 30 day test.
etc etc. Result was my ocd got me to go take one more test (ELISA) at 80 days (11 weeks) = Negative result.
then on crazily surfing google i came across this link which made my OCD worse :-
Heres the link:-
http://dhanrajm.sulekha.com/blog/post/2008/03/how-safe-are-condoms-really.htm
i know the site is not a registered and recognized and the data shared is bogus however wanted an experts opinion to settle my anxiety around the effectiveness of condoms.
After 15 years together, I am negative twice by Elisa, she is positive for type 1 and 2 by both Elisa and Western Blot. Given transmission rate data and probability, I do not see how our current viral status is probable. Take into account 4+ years of unprotected sex while trying to have a family. (Reference: Wald et al, J Infect Dis, 2006, 270 days disclose verses 60 days not disclose)
2] Is it possible she has a false positive on both the Elisa and WB?
my doctor is said to me to give pcr-rt (quantitative) test? what is pcr? I am very worried.
There is a lot of new tests but elisa is just the type of test, there are 1st, 2nd, 3rd and 4th generation of elisas, and there continue to be a lot of research for new tests, the newest teste tend to be rapid test accurate as elsia tests, there has been also improvement also in the NAAT tests, and some labs are trying to come up with a new 5th generation rapid test (PCR+Antibody+p24) but is not ready yet.
My husband had positive elisa test with 3.45 value in august 2016 for hepatitis c. Then he got treatment aND it showed 0.85 value in January 2017. He got checked his hepatitis C by elisa test again two days back. It showed a value of 85.0. He's active n doing job. No cough or any other symptoms. He did it as just a routine checkup. Please guide if elisa test can be 85.0 ?? What should we do next? Much worried! !
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