nursegirl i need your help please

[scared2343]

Nursegirl please help me..no one is answering me properly....please i will be very greatful to you....after my hiv exposure on 13th june....i have got really fed up of muscle and joint pains all over my body from last 2 months....I know u guys will tell you its because of stress and anxiety....but i have done blood tests in which my esr and crp values are very high it means i got inflammation in my joints and muscles due to infection...Pain is constant in all joints and muscles of my body :(..persistent pain 24 hours....m.really fed up of this pain..i havent slept from last 2 months....i have tested for hiv after 6 weeks by 4th gen elisa..then i had done my hiv 1 proviral dna pcr test after 47 days..it came back negative at less than 100 copies per ml..i again did elisa test after 63 days it came back negative..i wanna ask that do muscle and joint pain with hiv initial infection lasts this long?Is there any connection between hiv infection and arthralgia...and any other stds cause this much of chronic muscle and joint pain?in my 27 years i have never experienced this kindof pain.... :(..m a sports person and now i cant even do my daily activities properly....i m sead sure this arthralgia pai. Started after my sexual exposure with that street prostitute..

[ThePinkFloyd]

The same sience that tells you that allmost every new hiv infections will get some kind of rheumatic disease it tells you that after 3 months negative is 100% conclusive.Why don't believe that one too? And even if your immune system was wear and the antibody test would need 6 months to show...your negative pcr prooves your negative status.Because if your immune system was weak and it couldn't handle the virus making you having health problems for so long then the viral load in your body would be very hight.That means positive pcr.You are free of hiv. :)

[scared2343]

Thank u broda....m worried about hiv2 also..the pcr test i did was for hiv 1..are there any rare strains which modern elisa test could not detect?i have tried each and every doctors medicines znd antibiotics for my joint and muscle pain..nothing is working :(..they arent able to find out my infection?i havent heard any viral illness causing this much chronic joint and muscle inflammation

[ThePinkFloyd]

If you think that it will help you,you can allways take a pcr for hiv 2 also.But after 3 months the test is conclusive for hiv 1 and 2.I am not a doctor so I dont know much about joint pains and infections.I know that psychosomatic problems can go on for months.I know because after 10 months I still have psychosomatic issues.Maby talking to a psycologist will help you.It really helped me.Dont give up,you are hiv free.

[scared2343]

ThaNx broda..but your esr and crp tests all would have been normal right?have u felt the same joint and muscle pains which i am having 24 hours?

[ThePinkFloyd]

When you experience extreme anxiety your immune system weakens and its more open to infections.I can't tell you fi you have an infection or not,only I can tell you is that after all those tests it is proven that you have not hiv.I haven't felt that kind of pain but I had other symptoms. If doctors can't find anything wrong with your joint pain then you should try a psychologist,if this is due to anxiety and fear then he will help.

[nursegirl6572]

Continue to work with your doctor to find an answer....it isn't HIV.