hello all, i have recently been diagnosed with HBV, (absolutely by accident). My gastroenterologist keeps running batteries of tests, the last of which have included ANA levels and HIV screening. my ANA's are elevated and the HIV was indeterminate. I am almost at my wit's end. my reading leads me to believe that the elevated ANA could cause the indeterminate HIV reading. Does anyone know if this is so. We suspect that the HBV resulted from a cut from a straight razor at a barber shop. the doc advised you could also get HIV this way. As far as I know, i don't have HIV. Just please help.

Respectfully

Just_Jake

Just_jake,

I'm pretty sure that ANA or antinuclear antibodies are elevated when you have some sort of autoimmune process (like rheumatoid arthritis) going on.

I'm not sure if they become elevated with HIV or Hep B. I've never heard of an HIV test being indeterminate. How long ago were you cut by the straight razor ? It does take a certain amount of time to show positive but I would think if the hep b was positive the HIV would be either neg/pos by now.

Glenn

hello all, i have recently been diagnosed with HBV, (absolutely by accident). My gastroenterologist keeps running batteries of tests, the last of which have included ANA levels and HIV screening. my ANA's are elevated and the HIV was indeterminate. I am almost at my wit's end. my reading leads me to believe that the elevated ANA could cause the indeterminate HIV reading. Does anyone know if this is so. We suspect that the HBV resulted from a cut from a straight razor at a barber shop. the doc advised you could also get HIV this way. As far as I know, i don't have HIV. Just please help.

Respectfully

Just_Jake

Jake,

Hang in there bud!

Just because your ANA's are up there, doesn't mean you have every virus and disease that comes with it (Cuz that would be a lot!).

When I got tested for Hep, as a routine, they checked for HIV, and although I tested negative on the very first test, they said that false positive occur very, very frequently! So if you test positive the first time, you must go back again and re-test. If the second one come back positive, then you have contracted HIV, if it comes back negative, then you are in the clear.

Also if you get a negative on your first HIV test, you don't have to be re-tested because a negative, is a negative.

So hang in there, get re-tested, and let us all know how things go!

Take care!

Mike.