have not developed any symptoms, should I be tested again?

Hello and welcome to e health forum. ‎

HIV is a incurable disease. Precaution and continuous testing is recommended procedure so that chances of ‎‎detection and proper treatment can be increased and other individuals getting infected due to unknown cases can ‎‎be prevented. ‎

Your test results done until 9 months are conclusive and indicate that you do not have HIV.‎

The ‘window period’ is a term used to describe the period of time between HIV infection and the ‎production of antibodies.‎ Once a virus, is detected by the immune cells of the body, antibody synthesis is initiated and it persists ‎‎as long as the virus is active in the body. ‎

‎‎97% of normal individuals with a good immune system, produce antibodies within 4-12 weeks and the ‎‎remaining (3%) might produce the antibodies, around or after 6 months. ‎

It is extremely rare for a person to take any longer than 6 months to develop detectable antibodies.‎

In case a individuals have conditions that result in late production of antibodies - testing after 12 weeks or after 6 ‎months is advised. Most of these conditions are rare genetic diseases - and do present much earlier in life and ‎individuals will always be sick with respiratory and diarrheal infections throughout their life.‎

In case you were infected in reality, then the antibodies would be in higher titres and you would have ‎had severe manifestations of HIV infection by now. ‎

Your immune system is completely in normal condition and there ‎should not be any form of doubt about that. ‎

You do not have HIV antibodies in your blood, as you are not infected in the first place.

In your case, your issues are more due to the feeling of guilt and anxiety over the act committed, which is causing you more psychological turmoil, which is therefore causing you to feel that you may he infected with HIV.

There is no need to be tested again now, since your test at 9 months is negative.

You need not be worried about your past, but you need to be cautious about your sexual behavior in ‎‎the future. ‎

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