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thanks dr. hhh for your help. may be i will move over to anxiety forum
Read my replies above and concentrate. You shouldn't need to hear the same information three different times in different words. Move on.
That's all for this thread.
thanks. so this means i do not need any more tests and i can put this behind me and treat other symtopms as something unrelated?
thanks. so this means i do not need any more tests and i can put this behind me and treat other symtopms as something unrelated?
dr hansfield's words to you above:
"Anyway, absecesses and fistulas are not the kind of infection that raise suspicion about HIV."
thanks dr. hhh. one quick question.....is an anal abcess actually one of the symptoms of acute hiv infection? can this happen without any other sysmptoms?
The timing is reassuring, not scary. All your symptoms, abscess, etc were too late to be caused by acute HIV infection and too early to be due to advancing immune deficiency.
dr.hhh
thanks for your assurances. i have been scared due to timing of event. i have been healthy with no mdeical issues what so ever but i havent been feeling like the same person past 6 months. i will now put this behind me and try to move on
Welcome to the forum.
Bottom line: As long as HIV testing is done sufficiently long after the last possible exposure (and 3 months is always enough), the results overrule all other considerations. In other words, your exposure history, symptoms, and anal abscess/fissue are irrelevant; your test results prove you didn't catch HIV during your Tijuana adventure last December.
Anyway, absecesses and fistulas are not the kind of infection that raise suspicion about HIV. The frequency of infections may be slightly higher in HIV infected persons, but only a little; and the vast majority of people with such problems do not have HIV.
Finally, the HIV antibody tests are among the most reliable lab tests ever developed. And labs go to great effort to be sure that one person's specimen isn't confused with another; and so do doctors' offices. Can you imagine the lawsuits they could face if they ever told a positive person s/he didn't have HIV, and s/he then infected a partner? Or if someone were falsely told s/he was HIV positive? All concerned in the testing sequence are very, very careful about it. You can be sure your own HIV test was truly engative.
As for your weight loss and night sweats, the same answers apply: HIV is not a common cause of such things, and your tests prove you don't have HIV.
So ontinue to work with your doctor(s) about any symptoms that concern you, but stop worrying about HIV. It's not an issue for you.
Regards-- HHH, MD
in addition, i have been having very heavy night sweats lately, have been diagonized with gastritis and lost 6 pounds in last 4 weeks. would like to contribute all this to anxiety but di need an expert opinion