does your immune system get weak through anxiety and subconscious guilt/low confidence?

Is it true all of this is an OCD / Anxiety disorder problem??? I was told in this forum that I had no risk at all for HIV with what had happened 3 years ago.  and that this was all related to feeling guilt, and anxiety since the incident....

weight loss / stretch marks (ro black legions?) related to anxiety? or... what?  this is all only recent.

also can anxiety, low confidence, depression cause one to get sick easily...? I noticed I have been getting sick in the cold seasons... but when Im hit im hit bad with a flu.

[JGF25]

Absolutely, anxiety/OCD/depression all take a toll on our health.  I lost 12 pounds in 3 weeks with my last anxiety bout.  It takes a heavy toll and that is why it needs to be treated.  It affects how we think, how we eat, it lowers our immunity, and it leads us to become hypervigilent about our health.  Things that we would not have ordinarly noticed, now become something that is glaringly obvious even if it is a tiny, tiny bump on our arm that is absolutely nothing.  Seek professional help so that you can get past this.  Nobody gets HIV after 3 years.  If after 3 months the tests are negative, then YOU are negative.  

[nakedambition]

I didn't get tested before.  but I have been seen by my family doctor regularly, and my last check up they said everything looked normal except for high cholesterol, and lower than normal vitamin D.  Thats about it... and I was prescribed to see my psychologist.  

[nakedambition]

I didn't get tested before.  but I have been seen by my family doctor regularly, and my last check up they said everything looked normal except for high cholesterol, and lower than normal vitamin D.  Thats about it... and I was prescribed to see my psychologist.  

[greenlydia]

If I had the authority to ban you, I would. Enough is enough.
I DO understand that you're scared. I am not heartless, unfeeling or uncaring.
But I know how profoundly terrifying health anxiety can be. I know that there is nothing we can tell you that will EVER convince you, once and for all, that you do not have HIV. That, in fact, you NEVER had a risk for it.
I can't believe that in all this time you've never gotten yourself tested. It doesn't matter if you've seen your family doctor 100 times in the past three years. If you never told him about your fear of having contracting HIV, he would not order the correct test. Labs do not automatically check for HIV. It is a seperate test and must be ordered by your doctor.
You can go to clinics that do nothing but HIV testing and counseling. Look in the Yellow Pages or on the net for a clinic near you.
You need to get tested. Not because I think for one minute you've got HIV, but just maybe it will finally sink in that you are NOT infected.
And then you need to follow up with your doctors prescriptions for therapy. You need to do this for your mental health. We can not "cure" you. And we have told you, for the last time, that you absolutely must begin helping yourself because there is nothing else we can do for you.

See your doctor to discuss your newest symptoms.
Ask him about being tested for HIV and why you think you need the test.
Ask him for a referral to a therapist. And go!

Until you do these things to help yourself, please don't post here again asking the same questions. We have tried to help you over and over and over. If you show us that you're trying to deal with these issues, we will be more than willing to help you as much as you need.

It's long past time to step up to the plate.
DO IT!
Greenlydia
  
  

[nakedambition]

sorry but thank you again... its just so hard to believe!!!  I hope i can muster up strength to go and get tested.  although i do feel better ever since i started thinking positively and feeling happy.  I wish there were real people i can trust and feel comfortable with who can help me in real life to deal with this and not judge me for my past.  I am a changed person from all these experiences, and I hope that you are all right that I am not infected with HIV.  ALSO... as a token of gratitude if you are all correct about me not being infected with HIV I will donate some cash to this website!  I will keep you updated everyone.

[greenlydia]

There ARE real people in this world you can trust, who won't judge you because of your past, and as an added bonus, they will help you get over your health anxiety. They're called THERAPISTS and the sooner you get hooked up with one, the sooner you'll get your life back. You've already lost three years to anxiety that are gone forever.......how many more are you willing to lose because you are CHOOSING to let fear control you?

Keep your cash and use it for a good therapist. This place makes enough money already. It was a nice thought anyway!

And by the way, we ARE right about you not having HIV. 100% right.

To borrow a line from NIKE...................JUST DO IT
Peace
Greenlydia

[kokobg]

Im in the exact same boat as you. I was exposed, although I was told the chances are just theoretical, and im scared to death of HIV, and i don't have the strength to get tested. I will try to go tomorrow, hopefully it comes negative, and if it does, i will seek therapy for my anxiety.

[JGF25]

The key is the following.:

1)  Get tested, no sense in worrying about something when a test will tell you definitively.  
2)  Take your negative result and BELIEVE it.
3)  Don't go back and repeat what you did to land you here in the first place.  So many people on these forums go back and visit a CSW, have unprotected sex, etc.  and end up right back here.  

Good luck and I hope that you never have to post on here again regarding HIV anxiety.  

[nakedambition]

thanks..  one last thing.  what percentage of confidence would you give me for a negative HIV test result???  I would like to use that number to give me confidence to take the test... because i am scared to death as well.  please give me an honest number on what you believe (also taking into account if vaginal secretions may have landed on my skin near my base of penis if there may have been scratches or not)  PLEASE an honest percentage! thanks!  its just that stupid vitamin d deficiency freaked me out as i read that HIV positive people usualy have that lack of vitamin for some reason...