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For all people suffering and don't know what are there problem since last sexual exposure am talking about people with mild symptoms and no doctor could diagnose, some of them have been told they have anxiety and some are keeping testing for different things and still believe in their selves i wanna share this with you guys so u know that  you are not alone its been almost year since that damn night that changed my life , i had sex with a CSW and in one week every thing  stat to change and those are my symptoms :
1) Oral trush on my tongue with red spots
2) Enlargement painful lymph node in armpit , nick and groin area   (CT scan proved )
3) Skin rashes on the chest and behind my ears
4) fatigue
5) muscle pain
6) Dry mouth, Oral ulcers
7)  stomach ache
8) abdominal pain
9) chest pain
10) shortness of breathing
11) night swets on the beginning of the illness
12) CD 8 is higher than CD 4  and there ratio is under one while it should be above
and there other symptoms but there are the big ones that became a night mare that am 24/7 suffering of .
100 tests including all STD’s , lymph biopsy , colons copy, and they are scheduling a bone morrow biopsy and an endoscopy and still nothing appeared .. some doctors says it might be a new thing and some says that they might miss something and others got bored and asked me to take pain killers maybe my symptoms will get better by it self  by the time !!!!
what i want to say that a lot of people hear have the same symptoms cause i saw some questions and they have no answers i need them to keep searching and to know that they are not alone and to not lesson to stupid people talking about anxiety or any thing like this cause one day when this is going to be figure out every one of those is going to shut up,, some research are there caused people kept believing and took it to the media  like (hiv like virus in china) https://sites.google.com/site/newhivaidslikeviruschina/ and i hope we can figure something like them so we can push another research even if we should start collecting money for it or any thing this is our life and we wont gave up easily ..
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Guys anyone still around?
I am joining in too

Here's my story: (which starts by the first time ever I have any sexual encounter):
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03/25 (with person A)
I had my first intercourse ever it was (unprotected oral sex/ no ejaculation)

04/08 (with person A)
(protected anal sex)

04/22 (with person B)
(protected anal sex + unprotected oral+ deep kissing)

04/23 Person B got sick

06/25 ELIZA came negative (Mine and person B's) (B's last possible exposure was on the 4th of March)

04/29 (person B)
deep kissing with cold sores on lips healing
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my tests :
05/12 ELIZA negative
06/24 ELIZA negative
HBV/HCV negative
tested negative for the other STDs
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My symptoms (started after 04/22)
:
+an outbreak of cold sores on lips (the first time)
+one swollen tonsil
04/28:
+first night sweat

then symptoms showed one by one until this day 05/31 (something new every now and then)
in order:
+diarrhea
+cold sores healed (after 12 days)
+tonsil: back to normal
+night sweats come and go
+severity of fatigue increasing
+random flashes of pain in my (knee) that come and go for a day
+the most sever fatigue (lasted for 3-4 days)
+decreased appetite (no weight loss at all)
+episodes of dry mouth
+kinda looser (than usual) stool
+folliculitis on scalp/ arms/ chest/ stomach
+frequent flatulence
+gingivitis
+joint and muscle pains
+tenderness in lower back in one point only
+mild pain in my armpit when I move my arm
+a weird thing happened to my skin:
out of nowhere, the skin of the back of my hand started to turn red (a little bit itchy) then it got bigger a bit then stopped and disappeared after 40 mins
then I took a shower immediately - and the same thing showed on my neck, back shoulder, stomach then it disappeared in almost 40 mins as well. Hives maybe

in conclusion:
I live a healthy life anyway with low level of stress
90% of the symptoms are completely new to me (never got these before)
Now, I just feel different (physically, mentally and emotionally)
It feels like my blood got poisoned or smth.
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recently (my symptoms):
mild fatigue, swollen lymph nodes all over my neck, shortness of breath, pink eyes, the first (and worst) tonsillitis (for two weeks), wounds are taking forever to heal, numbness in tongue,insomnia, the rash of (pimples/acne/folliculitis) is still there...
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I almost got myself CBC tested every week since i thought i had "HIV"
at some point my platelet count was falling rapidly till it reached 115 and that was when I got this sever sore throat (tonsillitis).

Lymphocytes (absolute and relative),monocytes and WBC where so so high. (compared to the normal range)

RBC high (which explains the shortness of breath i had)

My last two blood tests shows an abnormal jump in my liver enzymes for no reason and kept rising.

Mild swelling of the spleen (Ultrasound)
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Medicines I used : (in order)
Doxycycline (10 day) for acne (not the slightest improvement)
Amoxicillin (2 tablets/day for 5 day) for my sore throat (it was getting worse)
Penicillin ( 3 tablets/day for 8 day)
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i haven't finished the course of Penicillin yet but there is a very good improvement in my throat today (and in my total heath) like:
the folliculitis/acne rash started to heal
I stared to manage to sleep some extra hours
my breath started to go back to normal.

I am not sure whether this is because of the antibiotics or I'm going in the asymptomatic phase now...
I'm gonna discuss extending my antibiotics course with my doctor
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What really bugs me is that when i talk about the idea HIV negative AIDS people start to make fun of me and tell me that this is all normal symptoms and probably stress/ anxiety related...

What a coincidence that people get "stressed" and have "anxiety" right after they have sex. and that "stress" is causing the same interesting combination of symptoms in all of these people in a consistent way...
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Omar, Neveea, and all others, where are you guys now?
Did you solve your health problems?

Please update us, I have read many posts by you all, we want to know how you guys are doing?
It will be a big help to many of us who are suffering the same problem - multiple HIV-associated symptoms, but repeated negative tests outside the window period.
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Hi guys,

Nobody post anymore here?Al of you are well right now?Unfortunately i don't think so.I'm in the same situation for 3 years.I think it's very important to share how is our partners right now.Does yours girlfriends have symptoms?After first unprotected sex with my gf she develop white tongue, now is have stomach pain and helicobacter pilori...
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I don't have any nerve issues or dizzy ness..I just stopped going to the doctor s..just living in misery with these symptoms
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Naveea, your symptom exactly the same as mine...

what are you doing with that?
1. Ongoing Sore throat,, everyday i have pharyngitis...
2. Ongoing Sinus infections
3. had Swollen and painful lymph node  behind the knees ,under armpits for 1 year or more
4.Now have swollen and painful lymph node behind the ear
5.Recurrent Low grade Fevers
6.Fatigue
7. Had a bout of Jaundice 6 months back
6.Folliculitus
7.Rash on palm every few months over past 2 years
6.Mouth ulcers inside the wall of cheeks and tongue and gums
7.Ongoing thin white ridges on tongue sides
8. Muscle and joint pain

do you experiencing coordination  dissorientation, hard to concentrate, writing, slurred speech, persistent dizzines, feel like i'm flying when i'm walking... etc... there is something wrong my my nerves and my brain..
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I dont think its about us cause i knw people got it after multiple exposures with different people and it wasnt my first time having sex !!

Viruses shows symptoms in some people but never show anything in others so am sure thats the cas
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Hi Omar,
How you doing? I couldn't post in the other page. Respect to the ideas or theories I have another ones.
Im trying to forget this following doctors recomendations  but its impossible. It's too obvious to me that this is not something related to my mind because it appear as a acute illness and it was strong with strong symptoms, I felt like I was close to die and is still bothering me.

Ok, after that I have to say that I think this is something more usual than we think,  and I think that some kind of people (like us) are more susceptible than others... specially thinking that most of us had just one  risk exposure and was enough.  I believe that we had an inmune reaction for differents agents that we caught and our body is still crazy and trying to erradicate and return to normality. Or definitively we have an enormous mind power and we are able to have any symptoms we read, even  changing our nodes, skin, etc and for so many time (I dont believe this).
Thats my opinion, tell us if you have find something or if another ideas.. Its difficult to live with constant pain, neck nodes, stomachaches, inapetite, fatigue, etc, I dont know how to face it and I feel like there is no doctor able to help us, Im just fighting cause I have faith in myself.. ok, and please recommend if you know some alternative medicine able to remove  some symptoms.. I read about GcMAF in your post, whats that?
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Some ideas of patient from different countries and its mostly there doctors opinions :

1) A new virus

2) A known virus that became more aggressive and they are talking about Herpes viruses.

3) A known Bacterial infection that became super bug, Staph and other bacterial infection were mentioned.

4) Its something related to HIV, this virus working mechanism is still not known yet and every thing about it is still under study after 30 years from they consider it the AIDS cause, this virus was never isolated by it self from any patient beside after reading some papers and if we put the denialism ideas away and think of the co factors that became under more study we could see soon they could figure that this virus have so many components and that you can have some of those microbes and develop AIDS symptoms without needing the HIV virus and as example of co factors ( HHV6 and Mycoplasma fermentans that is 80% there with HIV virus )

5) It could be a similar virus to HIV that share some proteins with it and this remind me with every study of Retro viral in CFS/ME patient as when they always found something they talked about similarities of sequencing with HIV or HTLV !
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I would like to have a WB test not a PCR and thats because of the proteins result that i would take one by one !

HIV testing is weird do you know that you could be positive in a country negative in the other one by WB ?!

the virus and the tests are not that accurate, dont believe anything else !

they still dont know how the virus works and thousand of cases like us are not known what is the cause of it !!

HIV is the only virus that was never isolated from the body by it self there is always number of microbes with it and was never isolated from plasma except with special chemicals !! the only virus with this story  
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By the way, there are too many post in this topic. I would advice everyone to open a new topic with her/his case here:

http://www.medhelp.org/forums/HIV-like-illness--/show/1436

It will be easy to follow.
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In another post you said you have a positive WB, this would be rare with several negative ELISA. I am sure it's a false positive. All the best.
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what were the results of your CD4/C8 tests?

for HIV, have you had other tests (e.g. PCR RNA) besides the classic antibody tests?

all the best.
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Welcome to the group stealth, please share your story and symptoms
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can I sound off and join the list here?  I too have similar pressing symptoms and my HIV tests (and all others) have been negative this far.   I feel like I have been dismissed both in person and on the internet and it has been very frustrating even trying to explain this ordeal to anyone who has not experienced it for themselves, even health professionals.  I find this attitude that if I test negative for HIV and my other tests are negative, then I must be physically ok but mentally imagining things?  This is beyond whatever I could have imagined and I can assure you it is quite real.  I dont think I can imagine a rash and having pain when I pee, even if all my tests are negative.  I am trying to learn to live with my condition but when it is something very strange for me to see and to experience then it is hard for me to simply dismiss it as many doctors have...
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Where do you live ?

and yes not all doctors knows about systemic Mycoplasma but i have to mention that it could be not our case and about dying its a slight percentage and this happens after a many years
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ok, but im not an english speaker.
In case to be some mycoplasma... I read this could end in death... so how can this be diagnosticated? and which speciality see this? I have seen internist doctors, infectologists, endocrinologist, neurologists and nobody said nothing about mycoplasmas.
ALways ''may be some alergy''...''sicosomatic''... ''just some inofensive virus''... ''anxiety''... ''deppression'', etc, etc.... and rather that, I believe this is causing me anxiety and depression and some catastrophic thoughts, was too obvious that I was infected  with something..
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Send me your skype on my inbox and we will discuss this

your symptoms will get better but wont resolve this is the case with all of us

We are trying to share good trials and different opinions from other countries

We will help you
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sorry the errors, my english is awful
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I had an encounter with a prostitute in a night of drinking with some friends and I dont took care of from the beginning because I was too drunk, then she put one of his condoms that truth seemed to be quite thinner than the one I use to buy. 3 weeks afte that I start feeling nauseous, a strong fatigue, headaches and neck pain, swollen glands checked by a neck ultrasound, red spots on chest and abdomen, ear aches, muscle aches and lost like 5 kg. Maybe forgetting others but that's mainly. Today I have 5 negative ELISAs, the last one at 6 months and no detectable PCR (with a minimum of 5 copies) at 4 month and still feeling fatigue (not so big), neck pain, swollen glands and lack of apetite... I dont know what to believe, Sometimes even thought that I would feel more satisfied with positive results, because is a nightmare been suffering this whit no diagnosis.
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could you please share your exposure story and symptoms
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yep, Im available for any study or survey too. Same story, same symptoms, I dont know what and who to believe. And my tests all negatives, even a PCR and different techniques and generations of Elisas after window period... this is happening in southamerica as well :/
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this is one of theories that some of mycoplasma spices were weponised and one of them that's is not mention in your text is mycoplasma fermentans

i cant prove or disprove cause this was a big political issue and u to now its not proven but in the other hand we cant say its no truth cause in some cases it was there and people got treated after long period of antibiotic.

one of the big names who know and fight for this is prof Garlth Nicklson
you can search for his name and you would find some information about founding some type of mycoplasma in Gulf war syndrome, CFS and in 80% of aids patient
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Hi all
mycoplasma can cause many symptoms read this link
http://www.life-sources.com/pages/Mycoplasmas-%26-Cell-Wall-Deficient-Forms.html
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hi friends any one try this
http://emedicine.medscape.com/article/223609-overview
mycoplasma infection
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