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ARS and fever
Dear members is a headache and a fever from 36.8 -37.3MAX considered ARS?
I took my fever under my armpits and it was 37.3MAX . I was to the doctor and she checked me and told that I had not flue or cold.I had runny nose that has blocked the sinuses and headache She told that I have rhanit allergic
Many cases of ARS involve a fever >38 - some people get much higher fever. Some people don't get ARS at all.
Fever can be caused by many causes and happen to healthy people all the time - infections from bacteria, viruses, fungi etc. It can also be caused by inflammation (skin burns etc.). On average, healthy people get several colds a year and a flu on top of that now and then.
Fever can be caused by many causes and happen to healthy people all the time - infections from bacteria, viruses, fungi etc. It can also be caused by inflammation (skin burns etc.). On average, healthy people get several colds a year and a flu on top of that now and then.
I will just add, that not only are the temperatures not high enough to be ARS - the temperatures are completely normal for a healthy person! Look at this article:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Normal_human_body_temperature#Core_temperature
Now, the measured temperature depends on where you take it. Rectal measurement gives the highest, oral the lowest results. As the article states, the median rectal daytime temperature among adults is 37.6 C - in excess of the highest you measured at any point!
Even if what you took was an oral temperature (which is lower than the rectal) the article goes on to say:
"The range for normal human body temperatures, taken orally, is 36.8±0.7 °C (98.2±1.3 °F). This means that any oral temperature between 36.1 and 37.5 °C (96.9 and 99.5 °F) is likely to be normal."
This means, no matter how you took your temperature, at no point was it outside this normal range. You never had a fever.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Normal_human_body_temperature#Core_temperature
Now, the measured temperature depends on where you take it. Rectal measurement gives the highest, oral the lowest results. As the article states, the median rectal daytime temperature among adults is 37.6 C - in excess of the highest you measured at any point!
Even if what you took was an oral temperature (which is lower than the rectal) the article goes on to say:
"The range for normal human body temperatures, taken orally, is 36.8±0.7 °C (98.2±1.3 °F). This means that any oral temperature between 36.1 and 37.5 °C (96.9 and 99.5 °F) is likely to be normal."
This means, no matter how you took your temperature, at no point was it outside this normal range. You never had a fever.
thanks a lot teak told that a ARS fever is 38 C or higher, thes mean that body is fighting a infection and lymphocytes are active too , is this true?
Just believe me I am affraid to death , during the period " from 2 until 4 weeks from a possible expoasure" my body temperature was from 36.6 until 37.3 MAX . This fever 37.3 did not persist and in 30 min it was again 36.9 or 36.8 , so I had not a fever of 37.3 that persist for many days
What you describe is not a fever - compared to what I've heard other regular people describe as their usual body temperature over the years, this sounds a bit on the low side.
Besides, everyone is different and the temperature goes up and down either due to stress, infection and other things. I get a low-grade fever at the slightest hint of a mild-infection like a cold, and very high fever on the flu (where other people who got the same disease had much lower temperature than I had). Furthermore, I've found that after a cold or flu my temperature stays slightly elevated for some weeks after (say, 0.5 C higher than usual) before falling to my usual setpoint 36.9 - I put that down due to inflammation from the body fighting the past infection.
Finally, you can't diagnose HIV from symptoms since all ARS symptoms can be due to other causes. You don't have a fever. The rest of your symptoms sounds like the regular response from several days of stress and anxiety about HIV and are not the key ARS symptoms anyway.
The only way to tell of your HIV risk is to look at objectively at your exposure and get an HIV test. If your exposure risk is low or nil, thinking about symptoms is absolutely worthless since they are much more likely to be caused by other things.
Besides, everyone is different and the temperature goes up and down either due to stress, infection and other things. I get a low-grade fever at the slightest hint of a mild-infection like a cold, and very high fever on the flu (where other people who got the same disease had much lower temperature than I had). Furthermore, I've found that after a cold or flu my temperature stays slightly elevated for some weeks after (say, 0.5 C higher than usual) before falling to my usual setpoint 36.9 - I put that down due to inflammation from the body fighting the past infection.
Finally, you can't diagnose HIV from symptoms since all ARS symptoms can be due to other causes. You don't have a fever. The rest of your symptoms sounds like the regular response from several days of stress and anxiety about HIV and are not the key ARS symptoms anyway.
The only way to tell of your HIV risk is to look at objectively at your exposure and get an HIV test. If your exposure risk is low or nil, thinking about symptoms is absolutely worthless since they are much more likely to be caused by other things.
I so affraid from that test, I had a fever until at 37.3 MAX that lasted only for 30 minutes and without medicaments was again 36.9 , and my headache started about 8 days latter from a possible expoasure
I have same symptoms, fever for 3 weeks, headache, night sweats ...
I asked on many forums - there is no typical fever or symptoms.
All can we do – wait until 3 month – but it’s really hard :((
p.s. I want to do test on 6week, just to not going mad..
I asked on many forums - there is no typical fever or symptoms.
All can we do – wait until 3 month – but it’s really hard :((
p.s. I want to do test on 6week, just to not going mad..
thank you I am sorry but I am worried this is why I ask again and again here . so your reply mean NO ARS?
Have a great time sorry for bothering you like a stupid
Have a great time sorry for bothering you like a stupid
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