window period for HIV

somebody please help me. do i need to repeat any test?

Please help me. I beg of you guys.

Hello, don't worry about the lack of responses, you are not being ignored - the bulk of the users here are from the US so they were still in bed while you wrote your posts

To answer your question, relax! Not only is it unlikely you would have caught HIV that way but you've had 2 negative tests now. Just to be sure you could have another test in a few months but I really think you're okay.

I did a final test after 86 days of my exposure. do I yet require a test. i mean i missed the mark by 4 days... does such a short period make a difference? I MEAN IS IT REALLY IMPORTANT TO REPEAT A TEST?

Can you please help

no, you can not get AIDs that way. HIV can not live out side the body. relax.

it was 86 days when i did a repeat test.... do you think 4 days could have changed the report? it is 12 weeks but 90 days... do you see risk in it? also what does neck and neck mean? can i consider my second test report it conclusive?

Can I consider it conclusive....

Yes. Conclusive. When i said neck and neck I meant that the only way you could give or get HIV from bleeding from your neck would be if some one who had HIV was also bleeding from there neck and you put the bleeding cuts together. I was just trying to give you an example about how hard it actually is to pass the virus from one person to another. You have to exchange body fluids. You say you were cut by a razor? You cant get it from that. The virus can only live for a few seconds outside the body so you can forget about it. You are safe. Enjoy your life. let this go. You are fine.

Homer, if the virus only lives for seconds outside the body, why do they make piercers and tatooists sterilise all their equipment? I know other nasties can be passed on but I thought it was because of the HIV risk too?

thanks a ton sir. your confidence brought hope and happiness. oh by the way your thumbnail is an Indian Deity- Lord Shiva in a Tandav Avtar...that means in a dancing state of anger

hope this doesn not rtelate to my incident at all... does it?

No, you are fine my friend.

Thank you.. it is time for me to go off to bed.. good night.

Also let me add this. Even if some one who has HIV used a razor and then you used the came razor, if the blood was dry you could not get the HIV that way.

How long can the HIV virus survive outside the body? What conditions would be necessary in order for the virus to live?

The best answer I have found for this question is from a CDC pamphlet, from which I extracted the following information:

HIV in the Environment

Scientists and medical authorities agree that HIV does not survive well in the environment, making the possibility of environmental transmission remote. HIV is found in varying concentrations or amounts in blood, semen, vaginal fluid, breast milk, saliva, and tears. (See below, Saliva, Tears, and Sweat.) In order to obtain data on the survival of HIV, laboratory studies have required the use of artificially high concentrations of laboratory-grown virus. Although these unnatural concentrations of HIV can be kept alive under precisely controlled and limited laboratory conditions, CDC studies have showned that drying of even these high concentrations of HIV reduces the number of infectious viruses by 90 to 99 percent within several hours. Since the HIV concentrations used in laboratory studies are much higher than those actually found in blood or other specimens, drying of HIV- infected human blood or other body fluids reduces the theoretical risk of environmental transmission to that which has been observed--essentially zero.

Incorrect interpretation of conclusions drawn from laboratory studies have alarmed people unnecessarily. Results from laboratory studies should not be used to determine specific personal risk of infection because 1) the amount of virus studied is not found in human specimens or anyplace else in nature, and 2) no one has been identified with HIV due to contact with an environmental surface; Additionally, since HIV is unable to reproduce outside its living host (unlike many bacteria or fungi, which may do so under suitable conditions), except under laboratory conditions, it does not spread or maintain infectiousness outside its host.

HIV is sensitive to fluctuations in temperature and the presence of oxygen. One place that HIV has been know to survive in is drug injection syringes since these are airtight and often contain blood from the injector.