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Worried about HIV and Mono
Hi, well here goes...
About 3 years ago I went to tijuana with some people, we went to a dance club and were drinking. Later that night I ended up paying for sex at a ***** house. While I was having sex the condom broke. I noticed this about 2-5 minutes into it, and we immediately stopped. I did not ejaculate, but i believe i have a tendency to produce a lot of pre-ejaculate. Afterward I washed off. I was worried about contracting HIV for a while but i didnt get tested because i didnt get sick or notice anything irregular. I don't remember ever getting sick 2-6 weeks after this experience. About a year and a half after this, i began dating a girl who has had past sexual relationships, and has not always used protection. About 5 months after dating I got really sick, fever, headache, sorethroat, swollen lymph nodes in my neck and a swollen tonsil, weakness, muscle aches, decreased appetite, and weightloss. I got tested for mono and my monospot came back positive. I never had intercourse with her before or after, but we did engage in unprotected oral sex on numerous occasions, both giving and receiving. She told me she was clean and I believed her, after i got sick with mono, she got tested for mono and her tests came back negative. I don't know how i got it. Fast forward a year later. I have been dating another girl for four months, one who has had sex before but who I know is not infected with anything because the only people who she has ever had sex with hadn't done anything with anyone else at all. We have been having sex and have not always used condoms, although without them i have never came in her. Over the past 2 years I have lost about 30 pounds, and since i started dating my current (although maybe not for long) girlfriend, the lymph nodes in my groin on both sides have become swollen (they weren't swollen at the time i had mono a year ago). I just got tested for std's including hiv and am waiting for the results. I have read a lot of info online about hiv and mono and i am really freaking out. Here are my questions:
1) am i at risk of contracting HIV from the experience in Tijuana even though i experienced no symptoms until about a year later? Can it lie dormant for longer than 2-6 weeks?
2) could my positive mono test be a false positive as a result of HIV infection? and what are the chances that having HIV will cause infection with EBV?
3) it has been three years since the experience in tijuana and a year and a half almost since i first was diagnosed with mono and the symptoms i have are weightloss, and swollen lymph nodes on both sides of my groin, the right side of my neck and i believe in my left armpit. Should i be worried about HIV or is it more likely something else like lymphatic cancer such as Hodgkins or non-hodgkins lymphoma?
i am really scared and i don't know what to think despite a lot of internet searching. The biggest thing that worries me is that i may have put the girl that i love at risk of hiv. she got tested today and is waiting for her results too. just so you know, i am 21 years old. Thank you for listening to me,
monojo
About 3 years ago I went to tijuana with some people, we went to a dance club and were drinking. Later that night I ended up paying for sex at a ***** house. While I was having sex the condom broke. I noticed this about 2-5 minutes into it, and we immediately stopped. I did not ejaculate, but i believe i have a tendency to produce a lot of pre-ejaculate. Afterward I washed off. I was worried about contracting HIV for a while but i didnt get tested because i didnt get sick or notice anything irregular. I don't remember ever getting sick 2-6 weeks after this experience. About a year and a half after this, i began dating a girl who has had past sexual relationships, and has not always used protection. About 5 months after dating I got really sick, fever, headache, sorethroat, swollen lymph nodes in my neck and a swollen tonsil, weakness, muscle aches, decreased appetite, and weightloss. I got tested for mono and my monospot came back positive. I never had intercourse with her before or after, but we did engage in unprotected oral sex on numerous occasions, both giving and receiving. She told me she was clean and I believed her, after i got sick with mono, she got tested for mono and her tests came back negative. I don't know how i got it. Fast forward a year later. I have been dating another girl for four months, one who has had sex before but who I know is not infected with anything because the only people who she has ever had sex with hadn't done anything with anyone else at all. We have been having sex and have not always used condoms, although without them i have never came in her. Over the past 2 years I have lost about 30 pounds, and since i started dating my current (although maybe not for long) girlfriend, the lymph nodes in my groin on both sides have become swollen (they weren't swollen at the time i had mono a year ago). I just got tested for std's including hiv and am waiting for the results. I have read a lot of info online about hiv and mono and i am really freaking out. Here are my questions:
1) am i at risk of contracting HIV from the experience in Tijuana even though i experienced no symptoms until about a year later? Can it lie dormant for longer than 2-6 weeks?
2) could my positive mono test be a false positive as a result of HIV infection? and what are the chances that having HIV will cause infection with EBV?
3) it has been three years since the experience in tijuana and a year and a half almost since i first was diagnosed with mono and the symptoms i have are weightloss, and swollen lymph nodes on both sides of my groin, the right side of my neck and i believe in my left armpit. Should i be worried about HIV or is it more likely something else like lymphatic cancer such as Hodgkins or non-hodgkins lymphoma?
i am really scared and i don't know what to think despite a lot of internet searching. The biggest thing that worries me is that i may have put the girl that i love at risk of hiv. she got tested today and is waiting for her results too. just so you know, i am 21 years old. Thank you for listening to me,
monojo
I went through sumthing like this and all the syptoms in the worl didnt matter . I got tested 3 times and was negitive for HIV. Just get tested a few times spaced out before you go crazy its the only way
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