Is this HIV symptom?

[lester_80]

Hi Doctor,

I had an unprotected sexual encounter with a girl whom i did not know her HIV status last 9th of August. she also performed unprotected oral sex on me. after two days, I got Hives all over my shoulders and thighs. A little bit also on my body. it quickly subsided the next day but the redness never went away completely. after 7 days i got a mouth ulcer, then i got tested on the 26th of August for all stds and HIV antibody/antigen (CMIA) as well as HIV DNA test(specialty laboratory). i started to have muscle pain all over that day and i feel like vomitting for a few days. I have a fever all along (37.3 C) with a braun ear thermometer test. all test came out negative, but heamophilus parainfluenza was found in a swab. the doctor gave me 1 gram of zithromax and 1 week of doxycycline 200mg per day, and 1 week of flagyl 600mg per day. the followed by 1 week of augmntin 2g per day to cure the haemophilus parainfluenze. My question is it is a month already and the redness still did not go away completely and my muscles still ache and my temperature is still at 37.2 to 37.3 C. Could this be a sign of HIV? or any kind of STD at all? all i noticed about this girl is that she had some sort of rashes, kinda like scabies on both shoulders. Can you help me diagnose what this could be?

Thank you.

Lester

[lester_80]

Hi Grace,

Thanks! you've been doing a great service to the community. God bless you.

[gracefromHHP]

augmentin is preferred for urogenital parainfluenza treatment.

grace

[lester_80]

Hi Grace,

It's just that i went to google it and none of the Haemophilus Parainfluenzae sites mentioned about using Augmentin, but rather a different kind of antibiotic (Zinnat).

Thanks,

[gracefromHHP]

The rate of hiv infection in the US is overall very low. It's up to you if you feel that testing again at 3 months is worthwhile or not. No reason to continue testing for 6 months though.

augmentin was a fine choice of antibiotics to treat the infection. any particular reason why you are questioning it?

grace

[lester_80]

Hi Grace,

Thanks for your response. Yes the Haemophilus parainfluenzea was found in a genital swab. however i was just wondering why the doctor gave me augmentin for treatment. Yes I did get a therapeutic massage to improve the muscle aches the stiff neck. Should i take another STD and HIV test after 3 and 6 months?

Thanks again.

[gracefromHHP]

37.3 is not considered an abnormal temperature at all.   At this point I recommend putting away the thermometer because it's obviously causing you increased anxiety in general.

parainfluenza takes a few weeks to run its course ( was that detected in the oral swab or a swab from your genitals? ).  They also threw a ton of antibiotics at you to cover this that and everything in between.  You've covered your bases and no need for more testing.  

If you continue to have muscle aches and a stiff neck, follow up on those with your regular doctor and stop thinking std's as a cause for everything since you've ruled them out at this point.  Also think about treating yourself to nice theraputic ( not erotic )  massage too to help work out the kinks from all the stress you've been under for the  last month :)

grace

[lester_80]

Hi,

I would just like to know if there are any stds related to my symptom? what std could cause a rash within 2 days and wont go away completely after a month? also as i mentioned symptoms consist of muscle ache, stiff neck, temperature of 37.3 C.

Hope someone could be of help. thanks!

[joggen]

This not a doctors forum and is limited to non-HIV STDs.