Hiv symptoms early signs
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Doctor,
About 6 weeks ago I had sex with a prostitute very briefly when I noticed the condom had ripped and I immediately stopped.
Since then I've experienced these symptoms...
Abdominal pain, hot and cold spells, strange sweating, diarrhea over 3 weeks, mild headaches, feels like sinus. Sneezing and running nose in the morning, white mild ulcerations in the mouth and inner lip.
I can understand how looking at web sites that provide lists of symptoms can fuel anxiety, particularly for an infection like HIV that causes few symptoms and for which the symptoms that are caused tend to be non-specific. The long and the shot of things is that for HIV diagnosis there is simply no substitute for testing.
Hi all
I had unprotected vaginal sex approx 11 weeks ago. About 3-4 weeks afterwards I started having symptoms which are worrying the hell out of me. I have a burning tingling sensation in my scrotum which goes into my inner thighs and sometimes my calves. I have been getting a rash which is not raised but is red and tends to appear on my stomach and forearms, it comes up and then dissappears (doest stay) I felt as though I was hot but temp ok.
I'm around the same time as you. I've had several different early symptoms. I haven't tested yet but I do know that increase in appetite is an early sign, so good luck!
Hi, I recently had two encounters with another male - the first time was almost 2 months ago, and it was relatively safe - I got rimmed, received anal sex with a condom (did not cum inside) for less than a minute, and gave head for about 15 minutes (did not cum in mouth). I had no symptoms after this encounter, and about a month later (around mid-December) we had another encounter.
How common is it for HIV symptoms to appear within the first year of exposure (not counting ARS, just later HIV symptoms). I had a possible heterosexual exposure in 9/07 (I'm a woman) and I'm waiting on the results of my HIV test..just got the blood drawn yesterday.
Meanwhile for the last several weeks I've had low grade fevers that come and go (never above 99.5 or so) and 3 hard glands in the back of my head at the hairline.
HIV is diagnosed through a blood test, not through signs and symptoms.
If you have had unproetcted sexual intercourse, you can go for a HIV test earliest 1 month after exposure and retest at the 3rd month for a conclusive result.
Women don't usually have many obvious symptoms so early along, breast changes are common, tender swollen breasts, a missed or abnormal period. Some experience cravings or food aversions and nausea early on, something that I had never read about is stomach soreness, I experienced that before I missed my period. I felt as if I had been doing a lot of ab workouts. With certain movements or stretches I would feel that my insides were really sore probably because of the stretching of the uterus.
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