# Negative Result On My Hiv Test!!! **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [November 22, 2006, 4:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/negative-result-on-my-hiv-test/381434 "2006-11-22T16:37:43Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Sampiro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)\ **Post date:** [November 22, 2006, 8:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/negative-result-on-my-hiv-test/381434/21 "2006-11-22T20:15:31Z")
Congrats. Apologies for slight hijack: I also got a negative (in the positive way) result on a recent HIV test though I had absolutely no reason whatever to think I wouldn’t. It quite irritated me, however, that my doctor insisted I take the test even though I told him "Yes, I’m gay, no I’m not usually sexually active, yes, I have had sex in the last seven years [I think- what’s today?]… HOWEVER [I won’t get as explicit here but I did with him] I’ve done nothing in years that could conceivably transmit HIV, or if I have then you can write a paper that HIV can also be transmitted by a new method. Still, he insisted I have the test even though I had one during a routine physical a year ago (it was just part of the battery included) and shall we say it’s been a dry year. Irritates me as pretty much any straight male friend I have is more sexually active than I am and higher risk and yet they don’t get this. (Of course the same doctor witnessed to me about Jesus [or tried to] while still lubed and latexed- I’m thinking of getting another Primary, which is such a pain.) ---
**Author:** ![appleciders](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/85f322/32.png) [@appleciders](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/appleciders)\ **Post date:** [November 22, 2006, 8:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/negative-result-on-my-hiv-test/381434/22 "2006-11-22T20:16:05Z")
Just don’t get _too_ drunk tonight celebrating. Might do something you’d regret… 😉 I had a friend who got a false positive about six months ago. He _knew_ it was a false positive, because he’s about the lowest-risk case you can imagine (virgin non-drug user with no blood transfusions) but it was still quite a scare. ---
**Author:** ![jjimm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba8739/32.png) [@jjimm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jjimm)\ **Post date:** [November 22, 2006, 8:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/negative-result-on-my-hiv-test/381434/23 "2006-11-22T20:22:14Z")
I got my first ever HIV test a few months ago for life insurance purposes. They gave me life insurance, so I guess I’m clear. That’s because whenever I donk 'er, I cover my plonker. ---
**Author:** ![the\_chicken\_of\_exeter](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ac8455/32.png) [@the\_chicken\_of\_exeter](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/the_chicken_of_exeter)\ **Post date:** [November 22, 2006, 8:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/negative-result-on-my-hiv-test/381434/24 "2006-11-22T20:36:07Z")
Well I got a letter today saying thank you for my last blood donation so I guess if I was positive they would have told me then. Not that there is any reason to think I could have been positive. ---
**Author:** ![MysteryFellow63427](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a88e4f/32.png) [@MysteryFellow63427](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MysteryFellow63427)\ **Post date:** [November 22, 2006, 8:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/negative-result-on-my-hiv-test/381434/25 "2006-11-22T20:42:01Z")
[QUOTE=the chicken of exeter] Well I got a letter today saying thank you for my last blood donation so I guess if I was positive they would have told me then. Not that there is any reason to think I could have been positive. [/QUOTE] I hope everyone out there knows that attempting to donate blood is NOT the proper way to get yourself screened for HIV. :eek: (not insinuating anything against you, chicken) ---
**Author:** ![Foxy40](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/a9a28c/32.png) [@Foxy40](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Foxy40)\ **Post date:** [November 22, 2006, 8:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/negative-result-on-my-hiv-test/381434/26 "2006-11-22T20:46:15Z")
[QUOTE=Ogre] Congratulations! And remember: Before you, uh, fuck somebody, cover your dick. I guess I’m not the poetic type. [/QUOTE] That just struck me as hysterical! Thanks for the laugh. 😛 ---
**Author:** ![xanthous](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/x/53a042/32.png) [@xanthous](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/xanthous)\ **Post date:** [November 22, 2006, 8:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/negative-result-on-my-hiv-test/381434/27 "2006-11-22T20:48:26Z")
[QUOTE=eleanorigby] It’s a good feeling, isn’t it. I’ve been lucky enough to have been tested on two separate occasions, several years apart, and I remain negative. \* \*no, I’m not randy; I’m a nurse who has managed TWICE in 20 years to stick myself with a used needle from two different known HIV+ pts. Thank god we have needle-less systems now… [/QUOTE] Oh.My.God. ---
**Author:** ![jjimm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba8739/32.png) [@jjimm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jjimm)\ **Post date:** [November 22, 2006, 9:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/negative-result-on-my-hiv-test/381434/28 "2006-11-22T21:00:20Z")
[QUOTE=neuroman] I hope everyone out there knows that attempting to donate blood is NOT the proper way to get yourself screened for HIV. :eek: [/QUOTE] No, but it is a side-effect, at least in the UK. You donate; they tell you if you’re positive and give you counselling if you are. ---
**Author:** ![eleanorigby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ee7513/32.png) [@eleanorigby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eleanorigby)\ **Post date:** [November 22, 2006, 9:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/negative-result-on-my-hiv-test/381434/29 "2006-11-22T21:07:33Z")
[QUOTE=annewaldron] Oh.My.God. [/QUOTE] YOU ohmygod–what about ME? Jeebus-lemme tell you-not a nice thing to live through. Twice. I am very glad that folks here are tested, have been tested and will continue to get tested-I’m all for it. And please use condoms. [/public health ad] I also agree with **sampiro** -heteros should be tested as frequently as gays, if they are um, how you say, actively active. (meaning many partners). ---
**Author:** ![Roboto](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/b77776/32.png) [@Roboto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Roboto)\ **Post date:** [November 22, 2006, 10:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/negative-result-on-my-hiv-test/381434/30 "2006-11-22T22:12:03Z")
Contratulations! Those test results surely must make you feel better . . . in a way, they are aids to your self confidence. ---
**Author:** ![Khadaji](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Khadaji](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Khadaji)\ **Post date:** [November 22, 2006, 10:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/negative-result-on-my-hiv-test/381434/31 "2006-11-22T22:26:27Z")
That is good news. Wishing you safe sex in the future. ---
**Author:** ![Anaamika](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Anaamika](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anaamika)\ **Post date:** [November 22, 2006, 10:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/negative-result-on-my-hiv-test/381434/32 "2006-11-22T22:38:54Z")
Do we \*know \*he didn’t practice safe sex? I don’t see where he says he didn’t in the OP, although I could have missed it. And even if I used a condom with someone and they called me three months later with this news, I’d still get tested anyway. \*\*Skald \*\*- care to set us straight, either way? Also, my sympathies to your buddy. ---
**Author:** ![Skald\_the\_Rhymer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ecccb3/32.png) [@Skald\_the\_Rhymer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skald_the_Rhymer)\ **Post date:** [November 22, 2006, 10:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/negative-result-on-my-hiv-test/381434/33 "2006-11-22T22:54:31Z")
[QUOTE=Anaamika] Do we \*know \*he didn’t practice safe sex? I don’t see where he says he didn’t in the OP, although I could have missed it. And even if I used a condom with someone and they called me three months later with this news, I’d still get tested anyway. \*\*Skald \*\*- care to set us straight, either way? [/QUOTE] I knew there was a reason I loved you best, Anaamika, thought I had always thought it was your general sexiness. Anywhistle, I’ve typically been safe in sex, and always with the former fuck buddy in question; the last time I wasn’t safe was when I was in a long-term (for me) monogamous relationship and we’d both been tested. (I admit to having a lot of unsafe sex in college.). That said, the FB insists that she was always, always, always safe, and even condoms don’t always work. > [@](#): > > Also, my sympathies to your buddy. Thanks for this as well. I’ve been feeling faintly guilty in my glee (is there an opposite to schaudenfreude?) because of her situation. It seems unfair; she’s no more a slut than I am. (Okay … no less a slut than I.) But that’s the way the dice rolled, I 'spose, along with the fact that M-F transmission is, as I understand it, considerably easier than F-M. Anywhistle – the long national nightmare is over; I no longer feel obliged to be utterly celibate. Whee! ---
**Author:** ![JRDelirious](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jrdelirious/32/9531_2.png) [@JRDelirious](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JRDelirious)\ **Post date:** [November 22, 2006, 11:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/negative-result-on-my-hiv-test/381434/34 "2006-11-22T23:12:01Z")
[QUOTE=Sampiro] Apologies for slight hijack: […] […] the same doctor witnessed to me about Jesus [or tried to] while still lubed and latexed[…] [/quote] :eek: :eek: :eek: I’ll take “There’s a time and there’s a place” for 2,000 Alex… … I guess he figured, if it’s not a “captive audience” when he \*materially \* has you by the whazzis … Anyway, enjoy the relief, **Skald** and in the immortal phrase from Hill Street Blues: “Let’s be _careful_ out there”. ---
**Author:** ![Freudian\_Push\_Up\_Bra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/edb3f5/32.png) [@Freudian\_Push\_Up\_Bra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Freudian_Push_Up_Bra)\ **Post date:** [November 23, 2006, 12:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/negative-result-on-my-hiv-test/381434/35 "2006-11-23T00:39:24Z")
As the saying goes, (a) “Never ever deck her with an unwrapped pecker.” (b) “If it’s not on, it’s not on!” © “Glad wrap salami to ensure its ongoing freshness.” (Which one of these things is not like the other?) ---
**Author:** ![Mbossa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/73ab20/32.png) [@Mbossa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mbossa)\ **Post date:** [November 23, 2006, 1:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/negative-result-on-my-hiv-test/381434/36 "2006-11-23T01:41:16Z")
[QUOTE=Freudian Push Up Bra] As the saying goes, (a) “Never ever deck her with an unwrapped pecker.” (b) “If it’s not on, it’s not on!” (c) “Glad wrap salami to ensure its ongoing freshness.” (Which one of these things is not like the other?) [/QUOTE] Hmmm…I’m gonna go with (b). (a) mentions “pecker” and (c) has “salami”, but (b) contains no such wacky euphemisms for diddles. Oh, and remember boys: Don’t do someone from Venus without covering your penis. Same applies if you’re into people from Mars (hehehe…into), but that doesn’t rhyme as well. ---
**Author:** ![Seven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Seven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Seven)\ **Post date:** [November 23, 2006, 5:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/negative-result-on-my-hiv-test/381434/37 "2006-11-23T05:39:02Z")
AIDS/HIV has been known for 20-some years. Is there any reason why educated people would get HIV anymore? I mean, I can understand people getting infected up until the mid 90’s, but in 2006? ---
**Author:** ![Rigamarole](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/77aa72/32.png) [@Rigamarole](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rigamarole)\ **Post date:** [November 23, 2006, 5:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/negative-result-on-my-hiv-test/381434/38 "2006-11-23T05:43:30Z")
[QUOTE=Seven] AIDS/HIV has been known for 20-some years. Is there any reason why educated people would get HIV anymore? I mean, I can understand people getting infected up until the mid 90’s, but in 2006? [/QUOTE] That’s kind of an asinine thing to say. Even when safe methods (i.e. condoms) are used, there’s still some possibility of infection, however small. Not to mention symptoms of HIV may not show up for several years after infection, so many people who are carriers don’t even know it yet. ---
**Author:** ![Antigen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/848f3c/32.png) [@Antigen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Antigen)\ **Post date:** [November 23, 2006, 6:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/negative-result-on-my-hiv-test/381434/39 "2006-11-23T06:54:21Z")
[QUOTE=Rigamarole] That’s kind of an asinine thing to say. Even when safe methods (i.e. condoms) are used, there’s still some possibility of infection, however small. Not to mention symptoms of HIV may not show up for several years after infection, so many people who are carriers don’t even know it yet. [/QUOTE] Not to mention a frighteningly large number of younger folks who aren’t all that worried it’ll happen to them. Because, you know, you’re immortal at 17. And they have all those drugs for AIDS now and they keep people alive, right? No, really, some people think it’s not a big problem anymore. “Won’t happen to me, and if it does I have those drugs anyway.” :rolleyes: Happy you’re clear, **Skald**. Because I work in a hospital lab, I’m sure that at _some_ point in my life, no matter how careful I am, I’ll be waiting for a blood test result myself. ---
**Author:** ![Seven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Seven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Seven)\ **Post date:** [November 23, 2006, 8:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/negative-result-on-my-hiv-test/381434/40 "2006-11-23T08:22:03Z")
[QUOTE=Rigamarole] That’s kind of an asinine thing to say. Even when safe methods (i.e. condoms) are used, there’s still some possibility of infection, however small. Not to mention symptoms of HIV may not show up for several years after infection, so many people who are carriers don’t even know it yet. [/QUOTE] I didn’t mean it to be snarky. I’ve lost many a friend and family member to AIDS. I just kind of hoped in this day and age people understand the risks and are more careful. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/negative-result-on-my-hiv-test/381434.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/negative-result-on-my-hiv-test/381434.md?page=3)