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Still feeling symptoms after 13 weeks
Hi Doc..
I am guy from Denmark who is worrying myself to death.
Thirteen weeks ago a had unprotected virginal sex with a girl from Thailand, who lives in Denmark (but only for two years). I got chlamydia from her.
6,5 weeks after we had sex I started to feel symptoms of acute hiv. I started to feel a warmth in my inner arms (near the lymph nodes) and later some muscular pains in my arms. At 7.5 weeks I had an hiv test (antibody + p24 antigen) which was negative. In the beginning of the 8th week I had nausea and feeling tired along with some trush (lasted for 2-3 days), and the warmth spread to the most of my body, especially my back (It did not feel like a flu, at that time I was convinced that it was my lymph system working to get rid of the hiv virus).
At 8.5 weeks I got the negative hiv result from my doctor (from the 7.5 week test), but at this time I was feeling occasionally pains from the groin and my armpits and was therefore not too convinced over the negative result. So I was tested again at 9.5 weeks (67 days, antibody and antigen test). At this time most of my occasionally pains was gone, and the test came back negative, and I was told that I could consider it as conclusive despite of my symptoms.
It has now been 13 weeks since I had the possible exposure, and Im still feeling warmth from my neck and groin, and still some rare pains coming from those areas. This causes me a lot of anxiety, because it must mean that something is in my body, that my lymph system is trying to overcome.
I can not think of anything else than hiv causing my symptoms, so I guess my question is, do you?
P.S. I have reoccurring herpes like, painless, sores on my penis head for more than a month.
I can not say for sure if my lymph’s are swollen (I have not felt them before this incident), but they are very easily felt in my neck and groin.
Another question would be if the fact that I was experiencing the symptoms so late in the course could slow down a positive test result?
By the way, the reason Im writing you instead of seeing the counsellor I have been seeing when I have been taking my tests, is because the nurses in Denmark are striking, and I can therefore not take a test right now.
Hope you can help me with a quick answer.
I am guy from Denmark who is worrying myself to death.
Thirteen weeks ago a had unprotected virginal sex with a girl from Thailand, who lives in Denmark (but only for two years). I got chlamydia from her.
6,5 weeks after we had sex I started to feel symptoms of acute hiv. I started to feel a warmth in my inner arms (near the lymph nodes) and later some muscular pains in my arms. At 7.5 weeks I had an hiv test (antibody + p24 antigen) which was negative. In the beginning of the 8th week I had nausea and feeling tired along with some trush (lasted for 2-3 days), and the warmth spread to the most of my body, especially my back (It did not feel like a flu, at that time I was convinced that it was my lymph system working to get rid of the hiv virus).
At 8.5 weeks I got the negative hiv result from my doctor (from the 7.5 week test), but at this time I was feeling occasionally pains from the groin and my armpits and was therefore not too convinced over the negative result. So I was tested again at 9.5 weeks (67 days, antibody and antigen test). At this time most of my occasionally pains was gone, and the test came back negative, and I was told that I could consider it as conclusive despite of my symptoms.
It has now been 13 weeks since I had the possible exposure, and Im still feeling warmth from my neck and groin, and still some rare pains coming from those areas. This causes me a lot of anxiety, because it must mean that something is in my body, that my lymph system is trying to overcome.
I can not think of anything else than hiv causing my symptoms, so I guess my question is, do you?
P.S. I have reoccurring herpes like, painless, sores on my penis head for more than a month.
I can not say for sure if my lymph’s are swollen (I have not felt them before this incident), but they are very easily felt in my neck and groin.
Another question would be if the fact that I was experiencing the symptoms so late in the course could slow down a positive test result?
By the way, the reason Im writing you instead of seeing the counsellor I have been seeing when I have been taking my tests, is because the nurses in Denmark are striking, and I can therefore not take a test right now.
Hope you can help me with a quick answer.
4 week test 95% accurate
6 week test 99%
12 week 100%
please correct if wrong..
but for sure above all are standards
6 week test 99%
12 week 100%
please correct if wrong..
but for sure above all are standards
Thank you for your comment, it helps me to relax a bit.
I know that other things than HIV can cause the symptoms, but I guess that the anxiety can disturbe common sense.
I know that other things than HIV can cause the symptoms, but I guess that the anxiety can disturbe common sense.
A 9.5 week negaive antibody and antigen test means you dont have HIV. Go back again at 3 months though for a conclusive test but your results arent gonna change.
How can you say there is no other explanation for your so called symptoms other than HIV? The symptoms in early HIV are the same symptoms in lots of other ailments.
How can you say there is no other explanation for your so called symptoms other than HIV? The symptoms in early HIV are the same symptoms in lots of other ailments.
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