I had a questionable encounter with a female i met online through dating site. I live in Canada and had a protected sex (latex condom) later to realize that her periods were on and i had blood all over the condom but the condom didn't fail at all. Also I i had received Fellatio (BJ) from her.
The whole episode (blood on the condom) disgusted me so much that i started reading blogs about STD's and got really anxious.
At that point i went crazy. I went to a infectious disease specialist and he performed another Elisa test and a Combo test (7 and a half weeks post exposure). The elisa came back positive again, with the same results as the last test (that was performed 2 and a half weeks before the second test), with no antibody dinamics (no increase in the amount of antibodies compare to the 1st test). The Combo test came back positive as well (because of the Elisa), but the p24 antigen was not detected.
My concern here is- 1) Can seroconversion be possible after two years?
2. What worries me is after the series for 3 tests i did over the past two years after exposure, i am scared if i serconverted after 2-3 years and ended up infecting my wife???I dying with guilt, all this while after the 3 tests
i though i was fine, but after my wifes positve elisa and negative wb result i am scared.Doctor please advice.
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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