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Can’t accept the results
Try not to judge the exposure. Please answer my question considering it’s a real exposure.
I was very healthy man and it’s not possible to get all these symptoms as coincidence.
My problems is,
In March I had a possible exposure to HIV, which is a condom broke which I wasn’t sure about it so I moved on with my life.
I had sex with my wife few days later, 2 weeks after she started to develop the worst flu which lasted 7 weeks.
I got so worried and went and did a blood test exactly 30days from the exposure and a rapid antibody test at 42 days both came negative.
Then I started feeling sick so I went back and did a antibody test at 108 days which was negative too. At this point I felt like telling my wife about the exposure and she agreed to test at 100 days from her exposure for both antibody and ab/ag test which came negative for her as well.
At around 120 day mark I started to feel upset stomach and stuff so I went again and tested for blood test at 130days and negative.
Every time I try to relax my mind some new symptoms pop up. Around 150 days I started to get blurred vision, photophobia and no taste so I did another test at 158 days which came negative.
I am so confused at this point with all my testing but with these new symptoms so I convinced my wife to test again so we both went and did a rapid antibody test which is 178 days from my exposure and 170days for her which came negative.
I still have blurry vision, photophobia, pins and needle all over my body and white tongue,bad taste and lost taste sensitivity and I am so lost and can’t even settle my mind from thinking all this.
What is your opinion on this?
I was very healthy man and it’s not possible to get all these symptoms as coincidence.
My problems is,
In March I had a possible exposure to HIV, which is a condom broke which I wasn’t sure about it so I moved on with my life.
I had sex with my wife few days later, 2 weeks after she started to develop the worst flu which lasted 7 weeks.
I got so worried and went and did a blood test exactly 30days from the exposure and a rapid antibody test at 42 days both came negative.
Then I started feeling sick so I went back and did a antibody test at 108 days which was negative too. At this point I felt like telling my wife about the exposure and she agreed to test at 100 days from her exposure for both antibody and ab/ag test which came negative for her as well.
At around 120 day mark I started to feel upset stomach and stuff so I went again and tested for blood test at 130days and negative.
Every time I try to relax my mind some new symptoms pop up. Around 150 days I started to get blurred vision, photophobia and no taste so I did another test at 158 days which came negative.
I am so confused at this point with all my testing but with these new symptoms so I convinced my wife to test again so we both went and did a rapid antibody test which is 178 days from my exposure and 170days for her which came negative.
I still have blurry vision, photophobia, pins and needle all over my body and white tongue,bad taste and lost taste sensitivity and I am so lost and can’t even settle my mind from thinking all this.
What is your opinion on this?
Hi, I think i know what is happening to you and to your wife. It's not HIV but it's something else. Listen to me, it happened to me either and also to my wife. My exposure was is September 2017 and still HIV negative my last test was 360 days after the exposure. I'm still suffering from a lot of symptoms. Please, send me a private message and we will talk there.
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Lior_ben You can't diagnose anyone from here, so you have no idea what he has..
My opinion is it is either mental, or it is indeed a coincidence. You not being able to accept the results is all in your head, you can believe having that many tests done. You do not have HIV, but you know the symptoms, looking for them so or course you will have them. You mind is very, very powerful and can make your body sick of you believe you are. The only other option is you truly have something wrong, not HIV, but you should see a Dr. to get it figured out.
It is abnormal to repeat testing as many times as you did. Your symptoms are either in your imagination from fear or are caused by something other than HIV. It is unfortunate that you have taken the unscientific approach that you don't believe in coincidence, because that mistake is the reason why you have wasted so much time fixated on a disease despite the tests proving you do not have it, all this time. See doc to determine if the symptoms are real, but the odds are very tiny that all these different issues exist.
Also quit Googling for Death cold turkey since that is just fueling your anxiety and quit over-examining your body. Without medical training and without a scientific approach is is not possible to diagnose disease, so your confidence in your ability to diagnose HIV or any other disease is unrealistic. Everyone posts here about their white tongue, but my guess is it was always that color but you never studied it before.
Also quit Googling for Death cold turkey since that is just fueling your anxiety and quit over-examining your body. Without medical training and without a scientific approach is is not possible to diagnose disease, so your confidence in your ability to diagnose HIV or any other disease is unrealistic. Everyone posts here about their white tongue, but my guess is it was always that color but you never studied it before.
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If it just the white tongue, I would have settled my mind but me being sensitivity to light and seeing other eye and mouth related things all together at once doesn’t make sense to me.
I don’t think anxiety can make up all these symptoms together
I don’t think anxiety can make up all these symptoms together
This forum deals with scientific fact, which is that you have tested conclusively negative for HIV and do not have HIV. No idea what's causing your symptoms, but it's not HIV. We can't act as an anxiety support group, so if you aren't able to accept your negative results, an appointment with a counselor is in order.
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