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Can fear of HIV cause symptoms of HIV
Can Anxiety of contracting and STD cause physical symptoms making you feel like you have an STD? In my case I have recently been exposed to a very low risk situation. My doctor and HIV speacialist agree that the situation is very low risk. I have asked questions here on the STD forum and they also agree that it was low risk. My mind is grappled with fear of HIV now. I have feeling of being a killer having possibly exposed my wife. ( please know I did a really dumb mistake and have been honest with my wife all along.) My sypmtoms are 1. night sweats 2. upset stomach 3. coated toung 4. nausia 5. tingeling 6. sensitive skin 7.nightmares. 8. loss of sleep 9. loss of appetite 10. soar throat.. My doctors keep telling me that all this is anxiaty and nerves. I am still in the waiting period before i can test for HIV and get a better picture to know if im infected or not. To tell the truth I am scared more that I have ever been in my whole life. Please let me know your thoughts and yes I have learned my lesson.
Hi all ....
I'm scared ...am too too too scared I have got all the symptoms that you have talked about and I have strong diarrhea ....I don't know what to do ...plz answer me ....
I'v got white tongue ,some ache in muscles , I always look at my palm see it again and again and again ...my fingers have red spots in the end , today I got my throat swollen ...now I take anti stress to help me sleeping ...
plz any one can answer me ...I'm waiting
I'm scared ...am too too too scared I have got all the symptoms that you have talked about and I have strong diarrhea ....I don't know what to do ...plz answer me ....
I'v got white tongue ,some ache in muscles , I always look at my palm see it again and again and again ...my fingers have red spots in the end , today I got my throat swollen ...now I take anti stress to help me sleeping ...
plz any one can answer me ...I'm waiting
Hi,
seems we are in the same boat if you need anything let me know. I am rolling along like you hoping this will go away and I have avoided drugs and will do everything I can to do that as they may cause other issues. The funny thing is I know I could alleviate all of this be leveling with her but that would destroy her my kids and ultimately me so what good is that? In any event, suffering with you you are not alone.
seems we are in the same boat if you need anything let me know. I am rolling along like you hoping this will go away and I have avoided drugs and will do everything I can to do that as they may cause other issues. The funny thing is I know I could alleviate all of this be leveling with her but that would destroy her my kids and ultimately me so what good is that? In any event, suffering with you you are not alone.
Hi scared352
You are beating yourself up over a stupid mistake. I have done the same, and have gone through the same feelings as yourself. I had a one night stand with a woman and cheated on my partner of 20 years.
Through guilt I convinced myself I had caught hiv. I have gone through the same symptoms as yourself including weight loss, sweating etc. I have had 4 rapid tests done in the uk at 12,14,15 and 18 months since that night, all negative but always start doubting the result. Three of them were done using blood from finger by NHS trained staff and one from a private doctor taking blood from vein. Every time I think of some reason to doubt the result which if you think about it is wrong to question the professionalism of trained staff. I always thought I was a intelligent adult but it is proving hard to break out of this condition despite medication. So I know what you are going through very well. I know this is not really giving you advice but hang on in there, you have made a mistake. We all do, if you feel taking a test a 3 months do it and move on. Don't make the same mistake as myself and get into the cycle of repeat testing as it's hard to break.
Good luck.
You are beating yourself up over a stupid mistake. I have done the same, and have gone through the same feelings as yourself. I had a one night stand with a woman and cheated on my partner of 20 years.
Through guilt I convinced myself I had caught hiv. I have gone through the same symptoms as yourself including weight loss, sweating etc. I have had 4 rapid tests done in the uk at 12,14,15 and 18 months since that night, all negative but always start doubting the result. Three of them were done using blood from finger by NHS trained staff and one from a private doctor taking blood from vein. Every time I think of some reason to doubt the result which if you think about it is wrong to question the professionalism of trained staff. I always thought I was a intelligent adult but it is proving hard to break out of this condition despite medication. So I know what you are going through very well. I know this is not really giving you advice but hang on in there, you have made a mistake. We all do, if you feel taking a test a 3 months do it and move on. Don't make the same mistake as myself and get into the cycle of repeat testing as it's hard to break.
Good luck.
.......just from reading your post that you felt no one responded was due to your description of the strip club incident shows that you have such guilt. Would talking to a priest help, like a confession. I don't know if you are a religious or spiritual person but maybe it will help. I don't suggest you confiding to your wife about it, most women won't be very understanding even if you merely just had a lap dance.
Try to focus on your fatherly and husbandly duties and eventually the guilt should pass. We all have our weak moments. There are men who do by far worse.
So what, you had a lap dance, you enjoyed it...whatever.
I thought strippers get tested for such things. I sincerely doubt she had HIV. You could try speaking to the manager about it or to the stripper. It may ease your mind some more. When will you go for testing.
Try to focus on your fatherly and husbandly duties and eventually the guilt should pass. We all have our weak moments. There are men who do by far worse.
So what, you had a lap dance, you enjoyed it...whatever.
I thought strippers get tested for such things. I sincerely doubt she had HIV. You could try speaking to the manager about it or to the stripper. It may ease your mind some more. When will you go for testing.
hi, from reading your posts I see that you are suffering from a groase act of guilt and yes I think the symptoms you are experiencing are more psychological than anything.
The night sweats, nightmares, loss of sleep, loss of appetite sound like emotional issues.
The night sweats, nightmares, loss of sleep, loss of appetite sound like emotional issues.
Hi,
I am so glad I found your post. I have been going through a similar situation but for a different risk. I read your situation and I want you to know 100% unequivocally you do not have HIV from this situation. HIV cannot be transimitted by ingestion. There are two reasons the mouth is a hostile environment for HIV and it would not be possible to transmit it this way and so is digestion. If the disease was capable of being caught in this way then there would be confirmed cases of people catching it like that and it would be everywhere for you to find easily on the web. It is a sexually transmitted disease ( you need to have sex, be the child of a baby who is breast feeding from an HIV + mother or be an IDU) in 51% of cases and most of those are Male to Male only 11% are heterosexual and only 5% of those are female to male. This is so unlikely there are not even statitistics available to quote you. I better rephrase that this not unlikely it is impossible. I am going through the same GUILT which is what you are suffereing and yes your mind is that powerful it can make you sick if you think you are. I had a realer risk, oral sex. I am so guilty I went and had a full panel took the cures even though I was negative and still believed I had every bacterial and HIV. This is not a whose crazier contest but I definitely feel your pain. I had HIV testing done six times all the way to 176 days and I still doubt my results.....what if the nurse used a dirty needle? what if I have a strain they did not test for etc. etc. etc. Let me tell you all I have is incredible guilt and as a result anxiety. I wish I could take my own advice I cannot but I will pass it on to you so perhaps I can get some merit points from above. You are fine, you are human, we make mistakes its how we were created despite best of intentions. some mistakes bigger than others and some monumental, collosal errors of judgement that as you know they pay for with their lives. You had nothing of the sort furthermore your wife knows what you were up to and also thinks you are over reacting and she is right. I hope that I can at some point return to myself I really do. If you need to talk it helps me as much as you feel free to chime in to my name. Have patience I try not to come on here too much as it stokes the flames if you know what I mean. I want you to know you are not alone and you will be fine and hopefully get over this, I wish I could talk to my wife about this she is and always was my best friend and the person i told everything to and now I have something I am keeping from her. One thing I have learned through this ordeal is I like you am a good husband and a good father, I made a mistake one page in my book of life. Your guilt rests on the fact that like me you had a high bar you used as a benchmark and now you feel somehow that your mistake changed the whole game. It did not. some will argue with me but one thing has nothing to do with the other. You had a little too much fun with a stranger, no intent to cheat, do something behind your spouses back, it just happened, you learned a hard lesson although I wish i were in your shoes, it is in the past.......let it go if you can. i am here for you.....good luck all the best.
I am so glad I found your post. I have been going through a similar situation but for a different risk. I read your situation and I want you to know 100% unequivocally you do not have HIV from this situation. HIV cannot be transimitted by ingestion. There are two reasons the mouth is a hostile environment for HIV and it would not be possible to transmit it this way and so is digestion. If the disease was capable of being caught in this way then there would be confirmed cases of people catching it like that and it would be everywhere for you to find easily on the web. It is a sexually transmitted disease ( you need to have sex, be the child of a baby who is breast feeding from an HIV + mother or be an IDU) in 51% of cases and most of those are Male to Male only 11% are heterosexual and only 5% of those are female to male. This is so unlikely there are not even statitistics available to quote you. I better rephrase that this not unlikely it is impossible. I am going through the same GUILT which is what you are suffereing and yes your mind is that powerful it can make you sick if you think you are. I had a realer risk, oral sex. I am so guilty I went and had a full panel took the cures even though I was negative and still believed I had every bacterial and HIV. This is not a whose crazier contest but I definitely feel your pain. I had HIV testing done six times all the way to 176 days and I still doubt my results.....what if the nurse used a dirty needle? what if I have a strain they did not test for etc. etc. etc. Let me tell you all I have is incredible guilt and as a result anxiety. I wish I could take my own advice I cannot but I will pass it on to you so perhaps I can get some merit points from above. You are fine, you are human, we make mistakes its how we were created despite best of intentions. some mistakes bigger than others and some monumental, collosal errors of judgement that as you know they pay for with their lives. You had nothing of the sort furthermore your wife knows what you were up to and also thinks you are over reacting and she is right. I hope that I can at some point return to myself I really do. If you need to talk it helps me as much as you feel free to chime in to my name. Have patience I try not to come on here too much as it stokes the flames if you know what I mean. I want you to know you are not alone and you will be fine and hopefully get over this, I wish I could talk to my wife about this she is and always was my best friend and the person i told everything to and now I have something I am keeping from her. One thing I have learned through this ordeal is I like you am a good husband and a good father, I made a mistake one page in my book of life. Your guilt rests on the fact that like me you had a high bar you used as a benchmark and now you feel somehow that your mistake changed the whole game. It did not. some will argue with me but one thing has nothing to do with the other. You had a little too much fun with a stranger, no intent to cheat, do something behind your spouses back, it just happened, you learned a hard lesson although I wish i were in your shoes, it is in the past.......let it go if you can. i am here for you.....good luck all the best.
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