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Good Day all, my situation is as follows, I had some potential exposures over the last few months and am absolutely petrified. The HIV prevention forum is telling me I have no risk but I just don't buy it. I am now experiencing Chronic Dry Mouth/Oral thrush over the past two weeks and am devastated. I can't eat, can't sleep and can barely function at all. The dry mouth has been pretty consistent for the past two weeks and the thrush came about last weekend. I don't know what to do and am so scared. These two symptoms are apparently tell tale signs of HIV infections and for this reason I can't get past it. I spoke to some counselor on the phone he said I had something called acute anxiety disorder, not sure how real that is and not sure what that does for my chronic dry mouth and thrush, someone please help me
You have already been told, several times, by the HIV Prevention Forum and this forum, that you had no risk, but in your own words......"I just don't buy it."
That is certainly your right, so I suggest you get yourself tested at the appropriate time, see your doctor for any physical symptoms you are having now and get a referral to a therapist to deal with your HIV anxiety. I don't think there is anything further we can say that will convince or completely reassure you.
It's time for professional help.
Peace
Greenlydia
That is certainly your right, so I suggest you get yourself tested at the appropriate time, see your doctor for any physical symptoms you are having now and get a referral to a therapist to deal with your HIV anxiety. I don't think there is anything further we can say that will convince or completely reassure you.
It's time for professional help.
Peace
Greenlydia
Um from someone who knows alot about HIV it sounds alot like anxiety and hypeocondria if you truley think you have it get tested but I'm sure you don't most people don't show any sighns of the illness and some people don't even know they have it I think you need to calm down a little bit and get tested if your that scared
You have obviously laid out what happened to lead you to believe you might have been exposed. The HIV prevention forum told you there cannot be a risk. I'm sure this is all due to HIV anxiety but have you tested just for your own peace of mind? If not, why not?
Let me also add that I don't fall under any of the categories as to why dry mouth/thrush is happening, not on antibiotics, not diabetic so far as I know, or any of the other factors
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