i just recently got a full body cat scan becuase i had thought i had abdominal pains to see what it could be. they checked everything in me out and said they saw nothing in there can now i think i could possibly have HIV can they spot HIV in you that way i think i may have gotten it possibly a year or so ago? please reply THANKS

a cat scan can not detect HIV in any way. abdominal pains are really not related to HIV, however, the only way to know for sure is a blood test specifically for HIV. good luck and i hope you start feeling better!

are u sure i thoguht they could like spot where the germ was living or somethin like that?

HIV lives in your blood. it does not create any masses or stuctural damage. it kills off the helper T4 cells, the cells that tell the army of white blood cells that there is a danerous illness in your body. when the body can not detect when a illness, like the common cold for example is in your body, the illness does some serious damage. a cat scan does not look at blood in any way shape or form. that is what blood tests are for, an HIV test looks for HIV in the blood, where it lives.

HIV/AIDS does not actually kill anyone. it makes the body so weak and vulnerable to any illness that the patient usually dies from these opportunistic illnesses. pneumonia is a common one, or waisting disease.

whats a wasting disease?

wasting disease is when your body becomes so sick that you waste away---in a nutshell

Wasting occurs towards the end stages of a disease, like certain cancers, and even AIDS. Wasting does not occur from HIV.
A CT scans image organs and other structures of the body; therefore it is only possible to see structural abnormalities.
Do yourself a huge favor and get tested for HIV if you are worried about it. The more you put it off, the worse you are going to feel. . .everything is going to be ok:-)