I do strongly agree with you. HIV is out of my mind.
I always pressured and stressed myself about safe sex and HIV prevention but never thought about other "generic" gifts like diabetics, high blood pressure etc. My family has history of diabetics, which may be cause of this problem. Anyways, thanks a lot for your answers. I am out of here and best wishes to you Dr. Hunter.
Makes no difference.. The other tests were sufficient evidence against HIV.
Thanks, just to clarity. I went to HIV clinic again and got tested exactly at 92 days mark (13 weeks) and results are negative.
Yes, people with weakened immune systems get staph. But people with normal immune systems get it just about as frequently. Your HIV test resutls prove you don't have HIV. It doesn't matter what other symptoms you have or other infections you might get.
Thank you for prompt answer.
I know that it is not lymph node because I do trust doctor's judgement. But, I just read online that people with hiv or weak immune system do get staph infection. Is that something which I should worry about?
If people with hiv do get staph infection, how late of the hiv stage it should be? Late hiv or early hiv infection?
I am not concerned about indetermediate results because it was been followed by four negative results, but this recent information about staph infection and it's realtion to hiv raised a thought in my mind.
Thanks and there won't be anymore questions from me.
Responding first to the title of your question plus the first couple of lines of the question itself: HIV infection does not cause isolated lymph node inflammation, i.e. only an armpit or anywhere else; it only causes widespread lymph node involvement in several areas of the body at once. Second, your negative HIV tests through 10 weeks prove you don't have HIV. (Initially indeterminate HIV test results usually turn out to be negative, as in your case.) Anyway, that would have been my conclusion even if you hadn't been tested at all, especially in view of the low risk nature of your exposure.
Now I have looked at the rest of your question. It doesn't change my opinion. Your doctor's diagnosis of a pimple or some other skin infection undoubtedly is accurate; there is no way any health care provider would confuse a skin infection with an inflamed lymph node.
All is well. You don't have HIV. Return to your provider and follow his advice if your symptoms persist or you otherwise remain concerned.
Regards-- HHH, MD