Guillain Barre / delay seroconversion - Teak help.

[helpplz03]

I'm sure you've read my posts before. Protected vaginal sex but unprotected oral on a women. 2-3 days later my tonsils are covered in pustules (or ulcers as an Infectious doc said). Neck glands became swallon over the course of the week. Sore throat that last 3 weeks. Deep muscle pain in the legs. Well I've been complaining about the muscle pains, muscle twitches, warm/cold sensations and tinglings all over - feet and hands most but on the legs and wherever. It just doenst stop. As I'm typing this its going crazy with so many sensations. I had a negative HIV test at 6 weeks (tomorrow will be 7 weeks since the incident) but now I am super concerned that what I'm experiencing might be Guillain Barre (or a mild case of it as I dont yet show muscle weakness). I've also been saying that Ive been constipated for a month (along with acid reflex) and Guillain Barre can cause constipation due to less movement in the GI track. I'm really concerned now that Guillain Barre could slow seroconversion because it is an automimmune response to a pathogen and slow the production of HIV antibodies (if that damn virus was there) - always knocking on wood that it isnt. Help from those with knowledge would be greatly appreciated. Especially Teak. Thank you in kind.

[ECN44120]

I understand that your worries and the too conservative and extra extra caution guidelines and hiv info had made you go nuts with anxiety and stress, you can fallow two paths understand that you had protected sex, gave oral sex and fingered a woman that are safe sex practices, and plus that you have a very reliable 6 week test and realizing you did not got hiv in that exposure, OR keep searching the web for false or wrong info, keep looking at your body for non hiv related symptoms, and being worried and depressed. please try to forget about this, if you cant control your fear look for menthal help, and test again at 8 weeks for 98% accurate result and then at 3 months for a definitive conclusive result, and then forget about this (the test are just to calm your fears not becouse they are needed).

Please google HIV Fobia+OCD and then you will get a clue of your real illness

Good luck

[Tony728]

don't end up like me....
anxiety causing more medical issues thinking everything is hiv related,...i'm trying to move on,...so should you. you were never at risk.
talk to someone that helps mentally w/anxiety and phobias.
take care & god bless.
T-

[helpplz03]

U guys keep saying that and I hope to god that you are correct. I keep thinking about the sore I had on my finger because I did finger her very deep. Maybe something went wrong that night and there was an exposure that put me at considerable risk. I know you guys cant diagnose me with GBS but if you have any insight into whether it can delay seroconversion that would be insightful for many. Many of you seem to have considerable knowledge i.e. LIZZIE, Teak, regularjoe, Mike_to and the list goes on. But if you can shed some light that would help. I have my GP appointment at 2:15pm today... not sure what thats going to be like. Order more tests etc...   regular physician so she cant really diagnose me.

[Teak]

You were never at risk for contracting HIV.

[LIZZIE LOU]

this is a hiv forum...and you do not have a hiv concern.

no one here can diagnose you with GB...AND NEITHER CAN YOU!!!!!!!  go see your doctor if you are concerned.

nothing you did...NOT ONE THING...put you at risk for hiv.  whatever symptoms you have come up with...are NOT related to hiv.  PERIOD!!!!!!!!!!!  MOVE ON!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[helpplz03]

I try to sit back and get a grip but when the symptoms dont go away. I mean how can you not start to worry. I'm at work right now and I feel crawlings in the bottom of my feet, warm/cold sensations and something like a spider walking acorss my face and back. My left thigh is hurting as it has been for weeks. I thank you for empathising with me. But if anyone can help regarding GBS I would be indebted. Please.

[worried826]

And what is compassion to you? Telling you that protected sex carries a risk and your negative test lied? Comon man, we are telling you the hard truth. Protected sex carries zero risk and your test does not lie. Combine the 2 and you can be sure you are safe.

You dott have GBS, you think you have GBS after the fact that you are worked up over HIV and have been searching the internet. You are letting your anxious mind get the best of you. I can empathise with you too, I am a natuarally anxious person and I worry easily. But soemtimes you have to sit back and evaluate the situation with some logic. You need to accept the fact that you were not a risk and you have a test to back that up. If you cant accpet it then counseling is in good order. Its not healthy to be so anxious and stressed, it will eventually show up physical symptoms if it hasnt already.

I am I am still in my window and I have actually made numerous mistakes having unprotected sex with women that I didnt know very well. Am I anxious, yes. But I cant change anything and it makes no sense for me to scour the net anymore and look for reasons to convince myself I am HIV+, when i test again I will find out for sure. Since I dont look at the net anymore for symptoms I feel much better and I am able to carry on with my life.

[avisg]

You were never at risk !!  Move on ,you are worrying yourself sick over nothing

[evenflow1121]

You had protected sex you were never at risk.  Oral sex does not pose a risk, but you should still test for other std's atleast once a year if you are sexually active.  Also it seems that no matter what anyone tells you, you are going to let your anxiety get the best of you.  You got tested at 6 weeks and it came back negative.  I dont think anyone else can convince you man, you dont have HIV, you were never at risk. You have a sore throat now use common sense, where did you put your mouth again? There can be a lot of bacteria in those areas nothing related to HIV, prob just have the flu or some foreign agent in your body.  YOu used protection, and oral sex carries no HIV risk. You are not seroconverting to anything, you do not have it.

[helpplz03]

all I ask for is a little bit of compassion. This is a scarey time for many of us and outright rejecting my question is rather unhelpful. If someone can help shed light on dely of seroconversion due to GBS or similar I would appreciate it. Thank you. Your fellow worry well.

[worried826]

Seriously go seek a mental health professional, you have a bad case of health phobia/hypochondria. I wish you the best.

[worried826]

Wow you are losing it arent you? I bet youve been scouring the internet to find anything that you can relate to HIV so you can convince yourself you are infected, nevermind that you have had no risk in the first place plus a negative 6 week test which is when like 90% of people that are positive will show it. You dont have HIV.

Whats kind of sad is that about every worried well on the internet thinks they are that very rare one that converts late.

Almost all of these so caled "symptoms" that you have are anxiety drioven. Muscle weakness, reflux (probably from not eating), and slow GI movement all stem from anxiety. Anxiety makes you lose appitite which slows your GI tract down and the empty stomach will regurgitate bile back up your throat.