False Positive HIV result while pregnant?
None of mine ever came back inconclusive or positive, but if your dr said she occasionally sees false-positives, I wouldn’t worry, but would definately get retested. I looked it up and it does seem like this happens. Here is one answer http://www.avert.org/hivtesting.htm#q18a Do flu vaccinations or pregnancy cause false positive HIV test results? There are a number of factors, including recent flu vaccination and multiple pregnancies, that may make people more likely to receive a false positive result in the initial screening test for HIV, though such results are still unusual. Confirmatory tests such as the Western blot are used to distinguish between these false positives and genuine HIV infection. The risk of a false positive during confirmatory testing is extremely tiny – around 1 in 250,000 for the Western blot, for example. What is an indeterminate Western blot result? The Western blot test is used as a confirm
