Your reply stated if PCR testing was positive , you were infected. You know, sometimes I feel like my doctors aren't as knowledgeable as me. This causes me anxiety I don't need.
Some definitions are in order first.
HIV PCR comes in 2 flavors, DNA PCR, which measures HIV in cells, and RNA PCR which is also refered to as a viral load test. There is always the possibility of false positives with any test. No test can be perfect all of the time. It can be related to sampling handling, operator inexperience, or other retrovirus infections to name a few. The actual test takes a day.