Correlation between acute hiv syndrome and testing results?

[medojisan]

3 days after my high risk activity with a female of an unknown HIV status, I started to develop sore throat, very mild fever, and a dry cough. The symptoms persisted for 10+ days. Given that the symptoms occurred so soon compared to often documented 2-4 weeks from first infection, is it possible that the PCR/viral load test will result in a detectable number sooner, if infected? Does the symptoms going away indicate that the antibody may become detectable sooner through rapid tests, say 2-3 weeks? Of course, I expect to follow up with 3 month test, but I was curious if there was any known correlation in the appearance of the acute syndrome and triggering of the test results?

[bigboss123]

Symptoms can be very misleading. Most of the time they are caused by anxiety over HIV. Get tested and ignor symptoms.

[NickOne7]

The symptoms would not start 3 days after, Soonest you can test is 6-8 weeks expect the results not to change at 3 mo if neg.