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Quote: lofthouse @ August 16 2011, 9:31 PM BST

Earlier in the year I was struck down with a mystery illness and had tests for everything but they found nothing. Anyway, I apparenty had some symptoms of HIV, so they took some blood for an AIDS test and said I should get the results in a few days. Do you know how long I had to wait to get the all clear....FIVE FUCKING WEEKS. Over a month I waited and managed about 4 minutes sleep in the meantime.

Bastards. Total bastards. Wankers put me through hell. I was suicidal.

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What?! That's appalling. Where do you live/who was dealing with your case?
HIV tests that give you an over 99% certain negative result in a few minutes have been around for a while now..

Noo. They just less incentivised if they're dealing with NHS patients.
I had a 'mystery illness' many years back and there were mutterings of MS and MND. Fortunately I was on Bupa and rather than waiting two months for an MRI scan was in within a couple of days. The only minor irony was nothing showed up. It took an xray to show that I'd dislocated two vertebrae in my neck and that was what was causing the problem.

Actually to be fair to my doctor he was angry about it too

he kept badgering them about the delay

And when he finaally dragged the results out them he had the decency to ring me at home to give me the good news

boy did I get drunk that night!

Relief isn't the word

Thats good news Loft, crap it took so long though

Quote: lofthouse @ August 16 2011, 10:25 PM BST

Actually to be fair to my doctor he was angry about it too

he kept badgering them about the delay

And when he finaally dragged the results out them he had the decency to ring me at home to give me the good news

boy did I get drunk that night!

Relief isn't the word

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'kin 'ell!
Where I used to work, anyone could walk in off the street and get an HIV test, with, as I mentioned, confirmed negative result within minutes. Am really, really shocked that you were put through that.
But hurrah and congratulations!

Quote: chipolata @ August 16 2011, 9:16 PM BST

At least uber-nasty chav horror film Eden Lake is on ITV4 at 10.

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Okay, the chavs are making me hate the world, the man is so stupid it's pissing me off and the woman has a really annoying face. I'm turning it off!

Well yeah I saw a TV show once where they did it like that and they got a result in a matter of minutes

which is why I was shocked when they told
me it would take 'a few days'

but yea

that turned it to five weeks virtually to the day

nightmare!

And to cap it off I still don't know what was really wrong with me to this day

bloody waste of time

Quote: zooo @ August 16 2011, 10:38 PM BST

Okay, the chavs are making me hate the world, the man is so stupid it's pissing me off and the woman has a really annoying face. I'm turning it off!

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Lightweight! It's one of the best horror films of the last ten years.

Did they test for a variety of other stuff as well? There are so many symptoms of HIV (including no symptoms for ages- use a condom kids!) that they could have decided you should have that test based on anything, regardless of your sexual history. Shocking.

Quote: chipolata @ August 16 2011, 10:42 PM BST

Lightweight! It's one of the best horror films of the last ten years.

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Well it must get a f**kton better after this advert then!
It's been pretty boring so far. Although quite uncomfortable and a bit tense.

So, he tells her to go and get help, and she sits in the dark all night and does nothing, then goes and watches them torture him, still neither trying to intervene or going to get help.

Talk about a bloody useless girlfriend.

Quote: zooo @ August 16 2011, 10:45 PM BST

this advert then!
It's been pretty boring so far. Although quite uncomfortable and a bit tense.

So, he tells her to go and get help, and she sits in the dark all night and does nothing, then goes and watches them torture him, still neither trying to intervene or going to get help.

Talk about a bloody useless girlfriend.

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Wow, what's this advert for?

Dumbest woman of ALL TIME.

Quote: AJGO @ August 16 2011, 10:53 PM BST

Wow, what's this advert for?

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Lol. See above!

Quote: AJGO @ August 16 2011, 10:43 PM BST

Did they test for a variety of other stuff as well? There are so many symptoms of HIV (including no symptoms for ages- use a condom kids!) that they could have decided you should have that test based on anything, regardless of your sexual history. Shocking.

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I lost loads of weight

I had really bad night sweats

and a swollen lymph node in my neck

all are symptoms of Aids

Quote: lofthouse @ August 16 2011, 10:56 PM BST

I lost loads of weight

I had really bad night sweats

and a swollen lymph node in my neck

all are symptoms of Aids

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So we're okay to joke about this now, right?

Quote: zooo @ August 16 2011, 10:45 PM BST

Well it must get a f**kton better after this advert then! It's been pretty boring so far. Although quite uncomfortable and a bit tense. So, he tells her to go and get help, and she sits in the dark all night and does nothing, then goes and watches them torture him, still neither trying to intervene or going to get help. Talk about a bloody useless girlfriend.

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It's a horror film - people behave stupidly. Then pay the price. Dems da rules of the genre!