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Incubation period for HIV

Hello! What's the incubation period for symptoms of HIV to appear after possible exposure? Mostly I read it's around 2-4 weeks, can it also begin earlier?
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188761 tn?1584567620
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You have been already suggested by each volunteer that there was no element of risk in the event you have described. If you are still worries about it, it wouldn't be a bad idea to see a counselor to address your anxiety.  This is the best we could offer you from this forum. We wish you well.
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Thank you so much for the answers. So I guess I can kiss again without being paranoic about it? Sometimes I overthink and think that some people are at more risk which is not false.
I will definitely try to fix my anxiety. All the best :)
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I sure hope you aren't asking this because of your NON risk that you've posted about.  If you are, you should absolutely talk to your doctor about treatment for anxiety.  Anxiety spirals are real and one very well may have you trapped right now. HIV is NOT diagnosed by symptoms. Doctors assess risk first (YOU HAD NONE) and then give a test.  Almost every HIV symptom is unreliable to diagnose by as all of them are cross over symptoms to other things.  Based on your previous questions, I know you describe that you had no risk and at which point, you should NOT be applying your symptoms to HIV and look to the real cause.  For those that actually had a bonafide risk (unprotected vaginal sex, unprotected anal sex or sharing IV needles for injecting drugs), early symptoms could start at the 2 to 4 week time frame but that is again, NOT what doctors take into account.  RISK and TESTING is the only way one knows if they have HIV.  You really need to let this go.
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The first 2 steps to peace are to stop googling for death cold turkey and stop examining your body (cold turkey) thinking your observations are proving something about hiv. Both of those activities  will just keep making you more anxious, because you don't have any medical training so you can't have any hope of doing a medical diagnosis.
Thank you for the answers. Yes, unfortunately I asked because of that event which I described before. I read your advice, I didn't reply back but it helped.
What happened after I read your advices was, I stopped Googling and examining my body, but the period of the third/fourth week of my potential exposure I developed a little fever for two nights, I had two mornings of loose stool, night sweating, headaches and most recently geographic tongue,  which I had also the first few days after the event. So I started being anxious again. Is the advice still the same after all those symptoms??? (I was traveling and sleeping less so maybe that contributed to the symptoms but I started thinking about all of this again even more...
Thank you for the answers. Yes, unfortunately I asked because of that event which I described before. I read your advice, I didn't reply back but it helped.
What happened after I read your advices was, I stopped Googling and examining my body, but the period of the third/fourth week of my potential exposure I developed a little fever for two nights, I had two mornings of loose stool, night sweating, headaches and most recently geographic tongue,  which I had also the first few days after the event. So I started being anxious again. Is the advice still the same after all those symptoms??? (I was traveling and sleeping less so maybe that contributed to the symptoms but I started thinking about all of this again even more...
Same answer applies. Nothing concerning. When you are feeling anxious even the smallest body change or tingle is made worse.
"I developed a little fever for two nights" What was your temperature, otherwise claims of a fever are likely just anxiety like the rest of your symptoms from your non-risk encounter.
After all, disease can't occur without a risk, so you are wasting your time trying to work up an hiv theory. You don't have any medical training so it is unrealistic for you to think that you have discovered an hiv transmission method that researchers overlooked for the last 40 years - especially since multi-billions of people ahead of you have kissed someone who had hiv and didn't get hiv.
I hope if is like that.
"Little fever" I try to think it was like that. I didn't have a termometer to measure it because I was not home but on moments I was really warm (maybe from the sun too), but for the others symptoms I don't know why.
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