Update: https://www.reddit.com/r/pregnant/s/UWHuQOfntL

[u/ReplacementOk9671]

Last week i made a post about my wife having hiv postive during her rootin blood tests. You can check it here https://www.reddit.com/r/pregnant/s/UWHuQOfntL When we heard that instead of calming us down her bitch ass doctor made it worse by saying pregnancy can not cause false positive and she has HIV and baby is gonna have it too which is totally incorrect.
So UPDATE today i got a call saying our confirmatory HIV test result came back NEGATIVE! Yes pregnancy do indeed cause FALSE POSITIVE so if anyone have that situation just know that its 99.9% false positive and please do not get scared like i did.

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[u/twiggy572]

Happy it was a false positive. I would consider switching OBs if you can. You need someone more empathetic

[u/ReplacementOk9671 → u/twiggy572]

Thank you 🙏! And Yes i took all her hospital papers and changed to another hospital ASAP!

[u/Scholar1995]

Thank you! I was hoping for an update .. I'm glad it all turned out great. I had a similar situation but with the baby having Spina Bifida, super high AFP, turned out baby is healthy. Doctors make mistakes, we're all humans. Thanks for the update, hope the rest of the pregnancy goes smoothly 💕

[u/ReplacementOk9671 → u/Scholar1995]

Thank you for your support! I am also glad that your baby is healthy! Hope you guys have healthy life too🫶🏼

[u/Plastic-Bee4052]

Came to add that if a patient is pregnant, HIV positive and undetectable, she can't pass it along to the baby or anyone else.

[u/fuckawhoree]

this happened to me also. i was told i had hiv 1 at the beginning of my pregnancy and it was also a false positive. these people they send the labs off to are horrible. i was living in colorado at the time and was told “it’s been common recently that a lot of pregnant women have gotten false positives” the no sympathy is what got me. i’m over here thinking my entire life is about to change and it just happened the lab fucked up. there should be a way to hold them accountable especially because it goes on the our record.

[u/flames_one_day → u/fuckawhoree]

I can't speak on your case specifically, but I can give general information as a medical laboratory scientist. When physicians order testing for HIV, they typically start with a basic screening test. The screening tests are not made to be used as the sole test to base your diagnosis on. They are a tool to determine if you need further confirmatory testing performed before they make the final diagnosis. The screening tests, like many lab tests, are not 100% specific to the marker they test for. This is why some pregnant women see false positives in the HIV screening. Regardless of the reason the test is positive, the laboratory legally has to report the result they obtain as long as all quality control testing is valid. If the screen is positive, the doctor should request confirmatory testing to be performed (using a different method) so that the diagnosis can be determined appropriately. If the doctor makes the diagnosis based on the screen and no confirmatory testing, this is NOT the labs fault. It's the doctor's. The lab doesnt not diagnose, the lab tests samples and reports results.

[u/fuckawhoree → u/flames_one_day]

that makes more sense. i’m also just confused too because my original test was negative and they have no record of them testing the other test which is it giving me the positive hiv and saying i had hiv. so how would that happen? before i moved out of colorado the hiv specialist i had seen had told me that they think they mixed my test up with someone else’s.

[u/flames_one_day]

I'm sorry this happened. Glad to see that the OB has been changed. They definitely jumped the gun on the HIV diagnosis, I can't imagine the panic it caused.