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Could this be ARS??? Please help
This will be a little long but PLEASE bear with me. I'm FREAKING OUT!!!!
January 19th I had unprotected oral and vaginal sex with a girl I had just met. During the vaginal she started to bleed. When we finished I immediately urinated and showered. Her history unkown. I'm a horrible person as I have a wife and 1yr old.
The next morning I noticed a red line below my bottom lip that went away the next day.
Started stressing
Jan 21 had relations with the wife.
Had some urethral awareness/itching so I tested and was negative for Chlamydia 1/30
Feb 13th I had diarrhea, no vomiting, no fever. Lasted 2 days. Could have been from BBQ I had in OKC (person I was with ate the same thing but didn't get sick) (think it was the bug the whole family had, mom in law, wife, sis in law)
Feb 20ish Had relations with the wife, woke the next morning with urethral itch and "dishcharge" didnt milk or urinate after sex the night before. Wrote it off as left over semen but got tested for Gonorrhea anyaway. Not detected.
March 18th ish I had a recurrent perineal abscess that got big and ruptured on its own on 3/22. Had inquinal lymph node tenderness, low back pain and slight fever. 99.2 Went to doc who prescribed Bactrim DS.
March 23rd Played sand volleyball for several hours.
March 25th Went to Vegas. Running a slight fever the enitre time ranged between normal and 99.7 ish.
March 28th Flew back to texas non-stop. Midway through the flight started getting chills fever spiked at 101.6
March 29th back pain and fever between 99.5 and 101
March 30th woke up with fever still no night sweats. Got out of shower and noticed rash on back of arms and tender neck lymph nodes with the inguinal tenderness still.
Fearing a Bactrim (sulfa) reaction/allergy I went back to the doc. He said the rash didnt look quite like a reactive rash but told me to stop the Bactrim. I had to fly later that night. By this time my anxiety was through the roof. I hadn't eaten in more than 24 hours. At the airport I noticed my tongue was white. Immediately thought thrush and brushed the hell outta my tongue. I ate a lil bit as due to stress my appetite was nil. Still running slight fever.
March 31st woke up with no fever and felt much better aside from stressing over the rash and back pain. My tongue was white again. Had one shot of watery poo from what I believe to be the fact that I had nothing but water and a granola bar in 24 hrs.
April 1st Woke up with no fever, just STRESS and anxiety. Tongue wasnt white until later in the day.
April 2nd Woke with no fever, still stressing, Tongue wasnt white. Went and got blood drawn for a HSV and HIV test.
Today. Woke no fever. I'm still stressing but not quite as bad. I know that ARS, if its gonna happen is usually within the first 2-4 weeks of infection. Wife has had no ARS symptoms. She has hypothyriodism and is taking Synthroid for it. She's immunocompromised as it is so if she were infected, she would have had symptoms by now.
January 19th I had unprotected oral and vaginal sex with a girl I had just met. During the vaginal she started to bleed. When we finished I immediately urinated and showered. Her history unkown. I'm a horrible person as I have a wife and 1yr old.
The next morning I noticed a red line below my bottom lip that went away the next day.
Started stressing
Jan 21 had relations with the wife.
Had some urethral awareness/itching so I tested and was negative for Chlamydia 1/30
Feb 13th I had diarrhea, no vomiting, no fever. Lasted 2 days. Could have been from BBQ I had in OKC (person I was with ate the same thing but didn't get sick) (think it was the bug the whole family had, mom in law, wife, sis in law)
Feb 20ish Had relations with the wife, woke the next morning with urethral itch and "dishcharge" didnt milk or urinate after sex the night before. Wrote it off as left over semen but got tested for Gonorrhea anyaway. Not detected.
March 18th ish I had a recurrent perineal abscess that got big and ruptured on its own on 3/22. Had inquinal lymph node tenderness, low back pain and slight fever. 99.2 Went to doc who prescribed Bactrim DS.
March 23rd Played sand volleyball for several hours.
March 25th Went to Vegas. Running a slight fever the enitre time ranged between normal and 99.7 ish.
March 28th Flew back to texas non-stop. Midway through the flight started getting chills fever spiked at 101.6
March 29th back pain and fever between 99.5 and 101
March 30th woke up with fever still no night sweats. Got out of shower and noticed rash on back of arms and tender neck lymph nodes with the inguinal tenderness still.
Fearing a Bactrim (sulfa) reaction/allergy I went back to the doc. He said the rash didnt look quite like a reactive rash but told me to stop the Bactrim. I had to fly later that night. By this time my anxiety was through the roof. I hadn't eaten in more than 24 hours. At the airport I noticed my tongue was white. Immediately thought thrush and brushed the hell outta my tongue. I ate a lil bit as due to stress my appetite was nil. Still running slight fever.
March 31st woke up with no fever and felt much better aside from stressing over the rash and back pain. My tongue was white again. Had one shot of watery poo from what I believe to be the fact that I had nothing but water and a granola bar in 24 hrs.
April 1st Woke up with no fever, just STRESS and anxiety. Tongue wasnt white until later in the day.
April 2nd Woke with no fever, still stressing, Tongue wasnt white. Went and got blood drawn for a HSV and HIV test.
Today. Woke no fever. I'm still stressing but not quite as bad. I know that ARS, if its gonna happen is usually within the first 2-4 weeks of infection. Wife has had no ARS symptoms. She has hypothyriodism and is taking Synthroid for it. She's immunocompromised as it is so if she were infected, she would have had symptoms by now.
thats a conclusive result, at 6 weeks its 95%, at 8 its 100% yours is at 11weeks. so yeah you can deff move on and stop worrying you are HIV free. from now on condoms to keep it that way
I had the blood drawn yesterday. I'll find out tomorrow.
I'm willing to bet (praying) the thrush is from the antibiotics.
I'm willing to bet (praying) the thrush is from the antibiotics.
Spit test is unreliable. And ARS comes on at 2-4 weeks not 2.5 months
Your normal blood work means nothing.
Why not just test now? As I said your result will not change in 2 weeks.
Your normal blood work means nothing.
Why not just test now? As I said your result will not change in 2 weeks.
So can I reasonably assume that, although its not an HIV test, my normal bloodwork/urnialisys results indicate that I am generally infection free?
I apologize for beating this dead horse thats behind the cart but I am just scared to DEATH!!
If this rash doesn't clear after if find out my results tomorrow I'm going back to the Dr. I'm concerned by the apparent thrush BUT that could be part of having taken 1600mg of sulfa based antibiotics for 8 days.
One more thing I forgot to add. When I was having the worst symptoms to the sulfa, It hurt to move my eyes. When I put all my symptoms into WebMD symptom checker, medication reaction was at the top of the list of possibilities, but not that far down was "viral syndrome" Thats when I began to REALLY freak out.
I apologize for beating this dead horse thats behind the cart but I am just scared to DEATH!!
If this rash doesn't clear after if find out my results tomorrow I'm going back to the Dr. I'm concerned by the apparent thrush BUT that could be part of having taken 1600mg of sulfa based antibiotics for 8 days.
One more thing I forgot to add. When I was having the worst symptoms to the sulfa, It hurt to move my eyes. When I put all my symptoms into WebMD symptom checker, medication reaction was at the top of the list of possibilities, but not that far down was "viral syndrome" Thats when I began to REALLY freak out.
Lol no. I typically don't.
Guess I'll find out tomorrow. Sorry to bother you Vance. Thank you for what you do
Guess I'll find out tomorrow. Sorry to bother you Vance. Thank you for what you do
Thank you Vance.
I hope you can understand my extreme anxiety. I have lost weight over this. I'm usually very level headed and reasonable.
One more thing. The night of the 28th I woke up freezing with extreme shivering.
I hope you can understand my extreme anxiety. I have lost weight over this. I'm usually very level headed and reasonable.
One more thing. The night of the 28th I woke up freezing with extreme shivering.
A 10 week test or 11 week test with the new tests they are using is not going to change from 10/11 weeks and 12 weeks.
Thanks for your reply. Provided some comfort.
Forgot to add that sometime in feb I had cold-like symptoms that were easily knocked down with Alka seltzer. Also this rash is also on my abdomen, legs, doesn't itch and doesn't seem to be responding to prednisone.
Forgot to add that sometime in feb I had cold-like symptoms that were easily knocked down with Alka seltzer. Also this rash is also on my abdomen, legs, doesn't itch and doesn't seem to be responding to prednisone.
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