Have you ever tested for HIV?
By taraelocin
@taraelocin (1138)
October 8, 2009 2:54pm CST
I am currently going through some medical treatment and in the preparation for this I had a blood test done to test all kind of potential illnesses and infections. HIV was one of them.
I wasn't really concerned, but you can never be completely sure until you get tested. My results came back just fine.
I never went for a test in the past even though you are always told nowadays you should test if there is any chance at all.
Have you ever been tested? Were you worried about the results?
3 responses
@srganesh (6339)
• India
10 Oct 09
No!But once I was tested for veneral disease.I was sure,I didn't have any chances to get a positive sign.But the doctor was adamant to rule out his doubts.So,I had to go through the test and the result was what I expected,negative.And my doctor was relieved to continue with his diagnosis.Cheers!
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@mysdianait (66005)
• Italy
10 Oct 09
These tests that they make us take can sometimes stress us out but once the negative results come through at least the doctors can rule out something else.
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@srganesh (6339)
• India
11 Oct 09
it is not only stress but also shocking to us,why they ask us to go for some tests.This is more common with the allopathy doctors who travel in a stereotyped path and don't want to take any parallel ideas of diagnosing.It is our close relatives who are more worried about the tests and I think some of them will change their views about us.
.Cheers!
.Cheers! @mysdianait (66005)
• Italy
8 Oct 09
Yes. I was taken into hospital five years ago after I had been running a temperature for a month and the doctor had been prescribing nedicines but I was not improving. I went in under observation and stayed there for seven weeks before they discovered I had some weird virus that only one person in so many goodness knows how many gets.
They did pratically all the available tests that there are including a lumbar puncture and a biopsy on a gland which they removed from my underarm during surgery. They also did the HIV test.
Was I worried? No because I was too sick to worry. I just hoped that they would find out what it was that was causing the temperature and the tiredness. The test was negative and once they got an idea of what I had wrong with me and I was given the right treatment I started to recover. It took another six months to get back to normal though 
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@srganesh (6339)
• India
10 Oct 09
Sometimes,the doctors want to rule out all the misleading symptoms and we have to undergo some silly tests without choice.When we are confident about our records,we need not worry even a little.I think,only people who have more extra relationships have to anticipate some trouble and wait for the results,biting their nails..Cheers!
.Cheers!@mysdianait (66005)
• Italy
10 Oct 09
You are so right except that some of the ones I underwent were not very simple and very stressing for those who were close to me. They would not have been necessary either if the doctors had gone a doifferent way round trying to find out what was wrong.
I was convinced that particular test would have been negative though juts as it was 
@joy_evaldez (461)
• Singapore
10 Oct 09
HIV test was among those test that were required for getting an employment pass here in SG. I was tested for this last 2006 when I get my first job here. I was not quite worried as I know it will be strange of me getting affected by that virus. My instinct is correct as my result turned out fine.
