Hiv tingly/burning hands and feet

[Sofiaaaa98]

Hi ..
I had a potential exposure to hiv 3 months ago . Drunk night with an unknown male, I am a 24 years old female .
Condom was being used until it slipped off and then I completely blacked out .
Two weeks after I had cold like symptoms which is stuffy and runny nose (that didn’t worry me to much )
Before that tingly and numbness started in my hands and to this day it’s persisting and moved to my feet .
Especially  at night my feet feel on fire and my hands keep tingling.
I did a few tests including a conclusive one which all of them are negative .
But this clearly feels like hiv neuropathy everywhere I read it leade to hiv
Should I test again ?
Is this an early symptom ?
It’s just odd that it started after my sexual encounter .
Never had it before in my life

[GuitarRox]

Anxiety does this to people.  You have a conclusive test. The nightmare you are living isn't related to HIV but to your anxiety.  Your test shows you don't have HIV.  Your anxiety wants to argue facts.  Seek help for the anxiety and leave HIV fear behind as you tested negative.

[Sofiaaaa98]

I will try my best to do so .
I struggle so much with this fear .. I will abstain from sex for months and months or when I do have sex I will always make sure the condom is intact and redouble everything . If I have a partner they get tested with me so I feel safe .
But then I will do something stupid like going out  having way to much to drink end up having sex and blacking out .
I feel so stupid for doing that .
I was just trying to have some fun for once with with someone I have known
But look at the repercussions now .
I wish I could remember exactly what happened but I can’t because I was so drunk .
I don’t even touch alcohol anymore .

[GuitarRox]

This is a mental health issue. Not an hiv issue. take care.

[CurfewX]

You answered your own question - you had a conclusive test. When a test is conclusive, that means it's time to stop testing, move on, and look for non-HIV causes of your medical issues since you definitively DO NOT have HIV.

[Sofiaaaa98]

I’m living a nightmare
I can’t seem to believe these results .
But I have read that tests overrules symptoms so I should believe them .
So annoying how these symptoms start right a the same time of seroconversion.
I know Google doesn’t help and I do my best to stay away from it .
This site is what keeps me going just a bit of reassurance makes me feel better

[AnxiousNoMore]

The first step to peace is to stop googling hiv cold turkey. There is nothing hard about stopping that googling - it's a matter of how badly you want to live a normal reality based life or whether you don't accept the science and continue to waste your time stuck in a google rut thinking irrationally that  there is some useful hiv info waiting on the net for you to find.

[Sofiaaaa98]

You are right .
Internet has a lot of misinformations .different sites with totally different informations and that’s when i start to doubt everything .
I am doing therapy . I rationalize with myself and I think okay the test is negative and I’m happy at that moment but then my mind will wrap around the symptoms I’m having  and some tought will come in my mind and say “what if the test is wrong ?” Do another one
I know anxiety can cause a lot of symptoms . They are so real that they make me really feel something is wrong

[GuitarRox]

The asking for reassurance, the searching online, etc. all make the anxiety grow.  That's how ocd/anxiety work. We do you NO favors by continuing the discussion with you.  Try exposure response therapy.  The current behaviors you are exhibiting are that of mental rituals. Feel good briefly, but it comes back worse than ever.  Get off the internet and distract yourself with other activities. good luck

[Sofiaaaa98]

I know this sounds a bit crazy but
Where I live in the  health care is free and so are hiv tests .
During the window period I took a few hiv tests before reaching my conclusive one .
I am thinking maybe the labs are just thinking I’m paranoid and writing negative without actually testing ?cause they are seeing me going so many times and not taking me seriously
Can they do that?
I did have a real risk and that’s why I went so many times until my conclusive one
I know  why I’m thinking this but these tests came back so fast and all of them negative
I feel like they lying and just assuming .
Since everytime the doctor sends in the requisitions for the blood work they mark as a a routine .
Imagine laboratories seeing my name for a routine hiv tests 3 4 times
They can’t take me serious
I had a risk a real risk which is unprotected sex but doctors don’t specify to them .
I’m scared they lying  and just sending in back as nagative

[Kirstie_MHModerator]

This is not an issue our members can help you with. We can only tell you about HIV testing, and when a test is considered conclusive. Fear that a laboratory is lying to you is outside the scope of our forum.

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[AnxiousNoMore]

The good news is if you had a conclusive hiv test then you're negative, so your only problem is fear of hiv. You don't have any medical training so it is not surprising that you jumped to the conclusion that you are infected with the first disease you can think of, namely hiv, and pretend that no other diseases exist.
That's even assuming you have anything wrong - but I'm guessing from "feels" you have just self diagnosed neuropathy as well - in which case see your doc to find if you even have anything wrong.
You've suffered from your own self diagnosis for 3 months, and since you continue to suffer, see a mental health therapist, because maybe they can help you go back to your happy life.

[Sofiaaaa98]

I know , I m going to the doctor to check for other things and try to get my mind away from hiv . It’s very hard .