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Pricked by needle - Please HELP me, PLEASE PLEASE HELP ME!!!

I was pricked by a needle exactly 3 months ago by a drug user who has HIV.

I have been tested negative at 1 month and 2.6 months. Full blood test, antigen and antibody hiv1/2 + hep c/b.

However, from 1month in from the prick I have had my testicles shrink to about 1/3 of the size.

From the time of being pricked I have been having pale stool and slowly getting worse fatigue.

My nails seem to look worse and more brittle and have white patches underneath.  I've also been feeling nauseous and sick. With pain in abdomen.

To make all of this worse at the 2month mark I have had my lymph nodes swell up in my groin neck and armpits causing me some mild pain and discomfort.

Since then they have reduced in size but not gone away completely. I've also lost 1 stone and a bit, however I have been eating less from the stress and axitey of this.  

I have been to the doctors multiple times and they are telling me that I have health anxiety, however I don't believe this to be true and I think there is something wrong with me.

Please share any thoughts you have, I am really worried.

I am going to go for an additional test however the doctors say the test is accurate at 4 weeks and I have nothing at this point to be worried about.

Could this be zika virus, or something else?
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1) you cant get things from the blood test. It is very serious if it is done incorrectly and the hospital can be sued.  You should stop being so anxious.
2) symptoms are not reliable in diagnosing hiv.
3) some of your symptoms sound totally like anxiety. Others sound like infections caused by thingns other than hiv, assuming that you described them correctly.
4) test are conclusive
5) you have no hiv
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I have been to see the doctor lots of times and they are not giving me any more information, my nails also have white patches underneath them.
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No one can diagnose you from here anyway, so see doc as you were told above.
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Thankyou for the reply though, please anyone with anything to add with experience, let me know.
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This is an HIV forum, not a zika, htlv1, parisites, cmv or whatever else forum. No one can diagnose you from here anyway, so see doc as you were told above.
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I have done and they can't tell me what the problem is, that's why I am here. I have something wrong at this point and don't know what it is, could be anything, hiv, zika, htlv1, parisites, cmv, list goes on. just all strange coincidence happens around the same time.
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You have conclusively tested negative for HIV amd do not need further testing.  Your symptoms are inconsistent to HIV.  Also, the cause of your ailments are not due to HIV.  

I suggest you seek your doctor's advise for specific answers,  forums on internet will not help you diagnos any illness,  nor will it help your OCD further.  For questions on other discomforts,  please take them to the relavant forum.
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