Symptoms although very early seem pretty conclusive

[rufinus]

I have posted a couple of times in the last couple of days but it now seems that my HIV infection is a text book case.
I had unsafe sex six days ago . First day after exposure I felt nuasea and lack of appetite. The lack of apetite has continued since but now I have a metallic tast in my mouth, a white film on my tongue and now a toe that moves independantly..all pretty conclusive I woudl say.
Serious depression and now suicidal thoughts....any support out there.

[rufinus]

thanks mr...Guilt ridden FOR SURE ...with a bottle of wine and I good neasure of whisky under my belt I will try and sleep ( 23h00 now but sure to wake up a 3h00 in a hot sweat). Very nervous about going to bed..

[worried826]

You can go on google and put in any old symptom and someone will claim it as an HIV symptom, the list of HIV symptoms is endless and pointless, the only real symptom is the presence of HIV in your blood.  Until you get a confirmation of that all you are doing is speculating. Hell you can search this site and find some pretty silly so called symptoms that people will swear are HIV related. Being skinny has nothing to do with symptoms appearing.

You also sound very guilt ridden. Yeah you know when your body is out of sync and anxiety will trick your brain into thinking it is out of sync, Anxiety and stress from work are two very different animals so you cant really compare the two. Stress alone wont make your brain play tricks on you.

[rufinus]

M8 the moving little toe thing may be freaky, and I would not have thought of it unless it happened, but my little toes was going all over the place today, like I had NEVER experienced before, and when I googled ( yeah against yours and others advise)" toes and HIV ",I found that thst this was a unusal but very real indicator of HIV.infection....all about motor nuerons..Some skiny dudes like me do seem to get symptoms vey soon after exposure.. if I test neg..I will post and appologise to all. but think that VERY unlikely.
Paul

[rufinus]

thanks for cooments M8...It is just very difficult at the moment as I feel Hve let every body down...failed completely in live..because I gave into stupid amimal sexual urges..a bad ediction I should have not onlt recognised but dealt with. yeah sure you can get these symptoms from stress and smoking, but I assure you I have a very streeful job and have smoke casually years but have never had symptons like this.. unfortunately I think you mind adn bidy knows when all is not right.. wish it weer different.. but that would be wishful thinking .. I need to try and work out what to do next.. and thanks to you, lizzie lou and others it mmight not be jumping from my terrace. BUt m8 even though you might try adn reassure me otherwise I cannot deny the symptoms and have to realistic.

[Songbird29]

First off, don't ever speak of killing yourself "ending it all" or any riff raff like that....I have friends with HIV, and some here have family members with it also. They cope and live full happy lives, many healthier than - people on the norm. SO THAT'S NOT COOL.
I have had strange sores in my mouth, white coating, metallic taste for a month, diarrhea, brusies, sweats day and night, pins and needles in my hands, skin blemishes, headaches, fatigue, swollen lymph nodes......AND I TESTED NEGATIVE PAST THE 3 MONTH period....

and by the way if your mouth symptoms are from smoking  and you have never experienced anything like this before...ever think that problems in that area caused by smoking progress also...it's not like "hey I've got this oral issue from smoking, wait no I don't, no no no, wait now I've got it again"....

[worried826]

Dude you need to chill out, and I thought I have bad anxiety. What the hell does a toe twich independently have to do with HIV? You are going way overboard with this whole thing. And your dry mouth is 100% to be anxiety, I have had anxiety for years and when it flares up my mouth will suddenly dry up and I mean very dry, like thick white saliva. And night sweat is common with anxiety, sometimes i cant sleep and when i fianlly do sleep my anxiety follows me to sleep and I dont get goos rest and sometimes will sweat a litle bit.

I would be willing to wager that the day after your possible exposure you thought about what you did and then developed nausea and a lack of appatite, not vice versa.