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I just came to update you all on my anxiety with HIV and testing
Hey you all, I know by now now I'm a familiar poster. I just wanted to update you guys that I will finally be getting tested next Tuesday. I'm very very afraid. I just need someone to talk to and some reassurance once more again.
Here is the story for a memory refresher
I had sex with my ex boyfriend once in March and in May.
In March I had unprotected sex with but it resulted in no ejaculation. I went to get tested at 5 weeks and also 3 weeks. All were negative.
The month of May I had sex with a condom and this time he ejaculated but with the condom on. It break it stayed on.
Im just hoping and wishing for a negative I'm so scared. I'm so anxious that I've had 2 dreams about hiv one where I water negative and the other where I was positive. I also starting to see things about HIV pop up everywhere. I hope these are not signs
Here is the story for a memory refresher
I had sex with my ex boyfriend once in March and in May.
In March I had unprotected sex with but it resulted in no ejaculation. I went to get tested at 5 weeks and also 3 weeks. All were negative.
The month of May I had sex with a condom and this time he ejaculated but with the condom on. It break it stayed on.
Im just hoping and wishing for a negative I'm so scared. I'm so anxious that I've had 2 dreams about hiv one where I water negative and the other where I was positive. I also starting to see things about HIV pop up everywhere. I hope these are not signs
I had called the laboratory clinic yesterday and talk to the medical technologist who did my test. She told me everything is accurate when it comes to my test. It was 11 months after exposure and I tested. It made me feel relieved. It was rapid test. She told me if something is there it will definitely show up.
I am glad you are back to your life now.
I am glad you are back to your life now.
Congratulations! I am very happy for your resault! Your resault is one more good example that there is no need for extended and prolonged worrying! Go on with your life and I wish not to ever have to come back here with anxiety problems!! :)
I just wanted to come back to tell everyone and those going through the same problem that I've been tested and all was negative after all both of my sexual encounters I had with my ex. I'm glad this period of anxiety is over. I've decided to stay away from sex for a little awhile and focus more on myself. I pray that everyone who is suffering from this horrible anxiety ends up being ok
Hey there!! Yes you are right. I just need someone to talk to about this and thanks for being here for me. I'm just very jittery about tomorrow
When anxiety takes over and you keep thinking about certain situations you will make your self believe of things that it was just never there.Just like leaking condom.I have done that so many times.I created so many scenarios on my mind...what if this and what if that.It never made any good for me.I know this is a very very deficult thing for you to accept.Hell,its been 10 months for me and I havenen't accept it yet.But thinking it over and over and try to ''uncheck'' certain situations will only make you believe that they just happened.If you keep thinking of leaking condom you will believe that there was a leak.I wish the very best of luck with your testing resaults.
Hello nursegirl I take my test tomorrow along with other tests. I Know a lot of Srs say it is hard to get HIV but it's so hard fore to accept that fact because my ex boyfriend just sleeps around. I keep thinking some how his semen just leaked out the intact condom. I'm so scared that I can't sleep at all
To both of you.....at some point, you have to either accept the facts for what they are, or get professional help to assist you in doing so.
Remember, fear is not fact. The FACTS are, HIV is actually very rare and VERY difficult to get. Even people who have engaged in very high risk activities don't always get infected.
The people who are testing + for HIV are the people who consistently, and frequently engage in high risk behaviors, most of them having MULTIPLE exposures (ie IV drug abusers, and men having unprotected anal sex with other men).
Tests don't lie...HIV tests are VERY VERY accurate, HIV is one of the EASIEST conditions to diagnose.
Dreaming about HIV and being hypersensitive to seeing things about HIV is anxiety talking. Your mind is overwhelmed with thoughts of HIV, which is why you would dream about it, and why you would notice seeing any kind of ad about it. If you weren't having this anxiety, you wouldn't even pay attention to those things.
Get yourselves some help before the anxiety spirals even further out of control, which it will if left unaddressed.
Remember, fear is not fact. The FACTS are, HIV is actually very rare and VERY difficult to get. Even people who have engaged in very high risk activities don't always get infected.
The people who are testing + for HIV are the people who consistently, and frequently engage in high risk behaviors, most of them having MULTIPLE exposures (ie IV drug abusers, and men having unprotected anal sex with other men).
Tests don't lie...HIV tests are VERY VERY accurate, HIV is one of the EASIEST conditions to diagnose.
Dreaming about HIV and being hypersensitive to seeing things about HIV is anxiety talking. Your mind is overwhelmed with thoughts of HIV, which is why you would dream about it, and why you would notice seeing any kind of ad about it. If you weren't having this anxiety, you wouldn't even pay attention to those things.
Get yourselves some help before the anxiety spirals even further out of control, which it will if left unaddressed.
You are both going to be ok. Anxiousme, you have nothing to be anxious about you are 150% negative if you tested negative after 11 months. Blissfuljoy, I know how nerve wracking taking a test can be. I've been there before and I swear I started seeing HIV stuff every where too but it is only because that is what we are focused. Your negative test at 5 weeks is a GREAT indicator you are negative. Once you get the results back you HAVE to put this fear behind you.
I got HIV Test and got the result after 2 hours. They took blood from the vein in my arm and ask to come back after 2 hours. I don't know if its really that fast and what kind of HIV Test they did??? Do you have idea?
I got HIV Test and got the result after 2 hours. They took blood from the vein in my arm and ask to come back after 2 hours. I don't know if its really that fast and what kind of HIV Test they did??? Do you have idea?
I got HIV Test and got the result after 2 hours. They took blood from the vein in my arm and ask to come back after 2 hours. I don't know if its really that fast and what kind of HIV Test they did??? Do you have idea?
Yes me too. I can't help it. Mine start whenever I see something about HIV on tv or on a social network. I kid you not that ever since I've made my Dr appointment to be tested I've been seeing a plethora of things about hiv and the word positive everywhere
I think we should calm a bit. But I don't know how to start. It's like one day i will wake up fine but then will start searching on the internet to rule out cause of this symptoms.
Yea I know. It's so hard to just come to terms with everything. I'm so afraid and even worse that I have to wait 3 whole days until I find out.
Hello, I was on the same situation and got tested 11 months in a local lab after that incident and came back non-reactive.
Mine was protected also but my mind is playing tricks you know, every pain i feel and everything happen to my body, I relate it with HIV. (which is wrong)
I still have the anxiety about this incident and sometimes can't accept my result. On the back of my mind I still have what if's. I really can't move on. Sometimes I am ok, sometimes I overthink.
But I read some posts here. If it's protected there is no risk.
Mine was protected also but my mind is playing tricks you know, every pain i feel and everything happen to my body, I relate it with HIV. (which is wrong)
I still have the anxiety about this incident and sometimes can't accept my result. On the back of my mind I still have what if's. I really can't move on. Sometimes I am ok, sometimes I overthink.
But I read some posts here. If it's protected there is no risk.
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