how immunosuppression can cause false negative results on antibody tests but they don’t consider alcohol to cause false negatives.

Question

If alcohol is an immunosuppressant, and your testing for an antibody, like say for an std or other disease, doctors say unless you’re chronically immunosuppressed you’ll be positive. But if you’re drinking a lot out of anxiety, and you take the test and it’s negative, can’t alcohol suppress the immune system enough to cause the false negative? Or is it just due to the extent of say HIV or an immunosuppressant drug is WAYYY more suppressing than alcohol.

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Heavy, chronic alcohol use is immunosuppressive. Getting drunk because you’re nervous about your STD screening won’t have that effect.