I know you will say I need checked out and I agree in my brain, but the other part of my brain wants to know if these long pain free periods over the course of 3 or so months without a perforation are typical of appendicitis issues? So, in summary, I am curious about the long course of this and the pain free periods. Thank you.
When you combine these facts with the facts the your exposure was essentially no risk for acquisition of HIV (HIV is not transmitted in the context of condom protected sex or frottage), there is simply no way for you to have gotten HIV from the encounter you describe.
have you been tested at as yet for HIV? If so, I am confident that your test was negative. On the other hand, if you have not yet been tested, then I urge you to get tested and put your concerns to rest.
There was a local surgeon that apparently only removed part of the appendix in three patients in a month. They all returned with recurrent appendicitis and he was run out of town.
Needles from 73 HIV-positive patients were studied. In these samples, 7 were PCR-positive (9,6%). Each patient sample was compared to their respective viral load. Negative results were observed in the 21 patients with undetectable viral load (below 80 copies/mL), and in 42 patients with detectable viral load below 150000 copies/mL. In 10 patients with viral load higher than 150000 copies/mL, 7 were PCR-positive (70%).
My obe also insisted they do surgery, saying in pregnant patients if in doubt they should operate. Finally they did surgery and it was appendicitis! My obe apologised to me that I had to suffer so long. Fortunately my baby was ok.
Now, your case may not be appendicitis, but the pain needs to be properly considered and closely monitored. Are you having fever? If so this is an alarm signal! Do follow up with your doctor and be persistent.
They noted that the incidence of appendicitis in HIV-infected patients was 4 times higher than that in age-matched controls. In addition, there was a trend toward a higher rate of perforation. "
http://www.medscape.org/viewarticle/443384
Complications (tick co-infections?) occurring because " due to lack of knowledge that they are infected with HIV, lack of access to care, or failure to respond to available antiretroviral agents.
In some cases proteinuria may be present before surgery in case of appendicitis. In case there has been urinary tract infection during this period, this could be the cause for proteinuria. I would suggest that you get a workup done for this for early initiation of treatment.
Best.
The doctors were laughing at me and said I was HIV positive that I was infected from the hiv test. Woke up started worrying what if they did that?! Went on YouTube for more info about hiv, bad mistake. Saw a bunch of conspiracy videos about hiv which made my anxiety worse. Then I got naseua, dry mouth, diarrhea, pin and needle pain on my hands. It made me more convinced they infected me. Everything went away except for the tingly in the hands pin and needle pain. I still worry what if they did.
You have made an assumption as to what is causing the pain which is not possible without appropriate studies. Appendicitis isone of hundreds of things that can cause pain in the abdomen. The statement that your appendix feels like it getting bigger doesn't make sense. It is possible to have pain originating from the appendix without true appendicitis. An appendicolith can be sitting in the appendix and cause pain as the appendix attempts to expell it.
You have mentioned that you were diagnosed with appendicitis. Was an appendectomy done? In this case I would suggest that an abdominal ultrasound may be done to ascertain the cause of the pain. A baseline urinalyis and urine culture may also be helpful to determine if infections or urinary tract stones may be present. I do not think the fungal infection has been causing the pain. Unless the area is swollen and severely infected the tenderness may be noted when the skin is palpated.
Symptoms are MEANINGLESS when it comes to determining whether you have HIV. There are NO specific HIV symptoms. If you in deed had a real risk, then only a test 3 months after the exposure will let you know your conclusive status. Your five week results are encouraging, but again, if you have had a real risk, then you need to test out to three months for conclusive result.
Exhibited symptoms can vary from a mild pain to a severe pain as in acute appendicitis; however, patients do not usually experience vomiting, fever, or gastritis. A rumbling appendix is inflamed, but not infected; hence, there is no need for emergency surgery. The pain associated with a rumbling appendix is usually restricted to the lower right abdomen, but sometimes shifts or extends to the upper right abdomen. Rumbling appendicitis can be treated, if diagnosed correctly.
thank you for your reply iv read a report in BMJ saying an unusual cause of this as appendicitis would this have shown up in the ultra sound scans or is a CT scan the only way to see this
Second, it morally reprehensible to refuse to treat HIV positive patients because they are HIV positive. Third, it creates disharmony in my practice to have an employee making alarmist statements of doom and gloom when the actual risk of transmission in the healthcare setting is infinitesimally small.
This report describes the field and laboratory investigation of eight patients who had clinical evidence of HIV infection, but repeatedly negative HIV-1 antibody screening results in the course of their clinical care. In all patients, HIV infection was proven [sic] by other diagnostic methods [PCR/viral load, p24 antigen and culture techniques]...Patient 2...HIV EIA result was negative during admission, but HIV infection was identified by HIV p24 antigen testing and DNA PCR...
RegularJoey- I was not aware that a friend informed the hospital that he was in a high risk group. If so, then yes, I think his organs should have been rejected. I also hadn't thought about potential transmission from the patients to their sexual partners. This is very true that the recipients could have spread HIV to their sexual partners.
So glad this information is finally getting more publicity. Much of the HIV positive community is in denial including doctors and healthcare workers. I have been infected twice through sex (I am HIV poz). The first time was 5 or 6 years ago and everyone thought it was some other way (I injected a drug once but didn't share a needle and tested neg for Hep C several months later).
Recommended
