Former partner test result
I'm sure questions like this are asked a lot. I did a search and read through a hundred posts but couldn't find anything like my question.
I have a hetero partner (I am male) that reached out and says they received a preliminary positive on an HIV screening blood test. It's strange because I see in this forum that generally, there's an established pattern of testing. Preliminary screening with antibodies and antigens, then if either of those are positive, move to PCR/naat confirmation. My partner sent results from LabCorp that said negative for HIV 1 and 2 antibodies, but no antigen test was ordered it seems. Next on the results is an HIV 1 and 2 RNA line. The HIV 1 is listed as reactive, the HIV 2 is non reactive. Why would this protocol be used, and what would a result like this mean? The sheet says it's "indicative of an acute or early infection" which I guess answers my question.
My last encounter (and only) with this partner was exactly 30 days ago. Unprotected oral sex, but protected normal sex. I had a negative 4th Gen HIV screening about 2 weeks prior to that. I had another partner about a week prior to this partner (exchanged negative test results, again unprotected oral sex, protected regular sex).
I immediately went and got a blood draw today to be tested and I'm awaiting the results.
I'm not totally sure what I'm asking, but I guess I'm trying to figure out the logistics of what could have happened. I admit I didn't really know this particular partner's sexual history/testing status at the time of the encounter but was told that it was several months since the last encounter and protection was used, while the last test was run around 1.5 years ago with around 3 to 4 partners in between.
I apologize because I'm spiraling while there's a lot of people in worse situations than myself, I just wanted some feedback