I had the worst experience with theseâŠ
I had the worst experience with these people.
First was three years ago, when I received my results with a low reactive HIV test result which led to me doing a follow-up rapid test confirming negative.
Again, I have taken my screen as normal in June 2023 and all results were negative and then again in October 2023 and it took while for me to receive my results. As soon as I noticed I waited to the Monday and then somebody calls me And they left me a message on the portal. I gave them a call back in the middle of my work shift and to my surprise everything had come back negative but HIV now Iâm questioning myself, panicking stressing and having the worst anxiety immediately, and then advised that I will have to come into the clinic and get some bloods taken and those were taken as per instruction, but as I am doing this I have advised that I have a cold and when I took my self sample, it was at the beginning of my cold or flu. They still continued to take my blood and submit it and then seven days later, the results were indeterminate. They then asked for more blood which I stupidly and at this time Iâm still fighting this horrible cold, which I believe they didnât disclose submitting my specimen to the lab. This took a further seven days for them to call me and ask me for more blood, I was livid. Not only had they caused a detrimental effect on my mental health. My anxiety was up the roof I have been signed off until December 2023 because I couldnât even eat, I couldnât sleep and I most definitely couldnât come out of my head, I was one minute away from committing suicide, I had to ask them to stop contacting me and I donât want anything to do with their service. as they hadnât even considered my mental health, they kept insisting that I contact them and they can give me a plan for retests which I found very disrespectful, considering my state. What shouldâve taken five days has taken a whole month with no confirmed result so Just last week I decided to take matters into my own hands and do some rapid tests because anxiety was about to take my life when I did the test, I waited 20 minutes , as per instruction, and to my surprise, I had a negative result. These people had me really feeling like I was disgusting like I had no reassurance and I definitely was sick. I sat there with my friend and I cried heavily. I couldnât even contain myself with how much relief I had, and what this moment meant for me. Having peace of mind was what I needed in this whole experience, and the way that the staff dealt with me was negligent, Iâve never felt more neglected and alone and unheard from a service that should be assisting me in my health.
From now on, I will be using my own private doctor or different NHS sexual health service these people can actually have you kill yourself. There is no care and how the results are delivered and for future I suggest that maybe donât tell people that they have a reactive result for HIV and actually do the confirmation test then release their results. Youâd really save mental health. Thank you.
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