5 week mark, worried more symptoms on?

[amijustnevous]

Tomorrow starts week 5 of my "low" risk. Protected oral and vaginal from an escort in Europe. The oral started unprotected for less than 5 seconds (up down on shaft 2 times or so). Lube/Spermicide was used on the penis then covered with condom. I was fully aware, and remember pulling off condom (in tact) and throwing away.

Week 1: starting day after risk, showing signs of UTI. Tingle in penis tip, constant need to urinate. No pain while urinating, cloudy urine. At this time in major guilt about what i did (happly married, first time i did this).

Week 2: Signs of UTI slowly going away, but pain in back, and head cold coming on. Couple nights of minor fever.

Week 3: All better, except occasional need to urinate and very minor tingle in enis tip and frequent bowel movement. Stool not solid, but not diareaha. Back in the US, saw Murse Pract. got culture, on dip saw bacteria, giving Cipro 1xday for 5 days.

Week 4: Everything pretty much gone, cept lower back pains. Saw real dr., was given Doxyciline 2xdayx2weeks, on day 6 of it so far. Back pains gone, stool slowly starting to harden back up (still looks weird).

While continueing to read medhelp, over past 2 days my neck/throat became somewhat sore. it felt swollen. Last night i felt like a i got a couple times of a numbness sensation in my face (weird). Woke up this morning, neck feels great.

Still awaiting HIV blood test results, but what do you make of all this?

[Teak]

You're welcome.

[worriedmann]

Thanx Teak.

[Teak]

You never had a risk.

[worriedmann]

I have had a protected vaginal with a SW exactly 5 days back.Today i feel the tip of my penis hurts.Urinating urges and a lil burnign sensation .Only at the tip. No discharges. Only urine. So far no other symptoms .Am watching closely. Got pimples on my neck. thats it . everythign else normal. Had paracetamol for a week now but only one a day to keep fever at bay. Think it is toxicating my urine.  feels like a slight head ache. cause im exhausted thinking.anxiety clearly. Ive had 2 anxietty attacks previously so i know what it is.try not to focus thr but still the burning sensation is real. been only 5 days .it is ok to go for STD checks now ? when is the best time i can go for hiv test ?
3 weeks ? and that too only if i get a fever or sore throat n stuff like flu??
pls advice. guys mustve face this situation.

[monkeyflower]

You had protected sex and could not possibly have contracted HIV. You didn't need testing in the first place. As for the tingling, etc., that's from the spermicide. That kind of irritation from N-9 is very common.

It's all about the guilt. Worried gave you good advice about anxiety driven symptoms... consider talking with a therapist if you can't let this go.

[txtony]

dude, you were protected with a condom, for both oral and intercourse.  you didnt even need testing, your symptoms dont sound like std's or ars.  possibly a minor uti, no clamydia, or gonnorhea.  bacteria seen in urine analysis could have been for a uti not std. bottom line, you dont need testing.

[WorriedT]

I think the brain is a lot more insiduous than that. What a lot of us consider "symptoms" are often things we may well have normally (eg. interpretation of low grade fevers may well be normal fluctuations in body temperature, not fevers at all; swollen lymph nodes can normally only be diagnosed by healthcare professionals but we start feeling "large" bumps all over the place which are probably totally normal; what are reported as nightsweats are mild sweating at night that we normally sleep through but because of our anxious state, we wake up and think we've had a proper breaking nightsweat), but the fact that we feel guilty or anxious means we look for them and notice them, while normally we would ignore them.

The other problem is that anxiety and stress causes physiological changes, such as adrenalin release, which basically affects the body itself. These chemicals are normally designed to prime us for a flight or fight response when we are in physical danger, so it causes all sorts of things like heightened awareness, increased heart rate, sweating etc, etc. It shows you how powerful the brain is.

The case in point is that you only felt some symptoms AFTER reading the forum. Good for you that you are dealing with the guilt etc, but don't be surprised if your HIV anxiety is also part of it. The brain is also very good at transferring emotional issues! Hopefully, you will lay it all to rest with a negative HIV test.

[amijustnevous]

So what i dont get, and it seems to be common in everyone here...if we have these low risks exposures, and even the people that test negative...why do we all get symptoms? What are the odds that through what I did, I got some reaction to the spermicide and/or guilt and all these symptoms that resemble HIV sysmptoms come on? I find it weird that I cant recall having sore neck (swollen glands perhaps) and this weird numbing feeling come over my face in the past. I cant remember the last time I could not pass stool like i cant now.

What makes being nervous attack the body and show symptoms of what we read?

I'm still waiting on my results (blood work from dr office...i suppose it will come in mail within another week). I've seem to have forgiven myself about what I did, so the guilt of my actions are clearing(cleared). Its the nervousness about HIV now. All my signs of the UTI or some other STD are gone....so im not nervous about that now.

The body, its so weird.

[WorriedT]

There are no documented cases of HIV transmission through receiving a BJ. You were protected the rest of the time so there is no risk there. You may have acquired a different STD, but it looks like you were treated with antibiotics that would have cleared that (though I am no doctor so I can't say how appropriate or inappropriate were your treatments).

All the rest is probably anxiety and guilt and spending time on the Net finding out what symptoms you may get!

Relax. You'll be fine at least with respect to HIV. You'll just have to deal with the guilt...