from what my infectious disease doctor said it would be diffiucult to tell how long i had been exposed to hiv, and because my body was dealing with it great on its own with no medicine he said it was even more difficult, i went to a group meeting for people with HIV shortly after i was diagnosed and i was surprised that some people had it for 13, 15, 20 years and never was on medicine and they had constant low viral loads which meant there body was not allowing it to take over there immune system
i later learned that your immune system is something you inherit and that some people have stronger ones then others and some people can live with hiv for many years before ever taking meds where as after my diagnosis it took me 7years before starting meds a buddy of mine was one of the first cases and he has never been on meds and his viral load stays around 1000 copies and his t-cell count is always in the high 800's
the only regret for me with having hiv is telling a potential partner, thats what i feel is the only difficult thing in this. now dont get me wrong if its a one night stand and i know that i "DONT TELL" i make sure to wear a condemn and its almost no fun because i constantly check to make sure its on and it did not break and i am always pulling out to check, however since being poz and knowing i liked someone and having to sit them down and let them know i am poz is so hard, luckily i have never had anyone say oh well forget it. i think most educated people are aware of the facts and they are not as afraid anymore however i always still feel the need to pull out my latest test results to show i am undetectable and explain what that means.
as for someone saying you usually dont get tested for western blot the first time around, thats what took my results so long to come back, my clinic ran them twice once with ALISA and the second was WESTERN BLOT my doctor said they do that to prevent false
positives.
i decided to prevent that awkward conversation about me being positive i would date other positive people and oh my god thats fucking great, no awkward conversation, no guilt of a condemn breaking and now my doctor said that whole thing about a SUPER STRAIN is FALSE. he said that he has never seen it in his practice and that 2 positive on meds and undetectable its fine.
so once again my friend when you get your results monday either way educate yourself, be careful and be thankful that this is 2012 where if you are positive you can still live a long healthy life if you take of yourself speaking of taking care of yourself i am heading to the 24hour gym now.......later and good luck