Is this ARV

Doc--I am in a panic. Been dating someone I have know for a a long time, over the last 7months. We've used protection but every now and then the condom has slipped or broken. Although I trust him, I am worried about my recent symptoms:

Just before Christmas I noticed a white spot on my thumb nail, as well as a slightly larger lunula  on my right thumb compared to my left thumb (Is this normal?). I also noticed some numbness at the writers grip  ie between thumb and middle finger (I am a grad student and I write a ton). Internet searches generated lots of info relating my symptoms to trauma on nail, proximal subungual oncho etc Since PSO is a sign of immunodef, I continued searches on signs of HIV and began to freak out.

The next day I went to get my nails done and the lady accidentally chopped of a bit of my cuticle on the right thumb with the white spot on it. The nail fold was slightly swollen the next morning but I  decided to have my sister ( a nurse) take a look at it as I was flying home for the holidays that morning 12/24/07.

On christmas day I came down with diarrhea. I became nauseated and the diarrhea occurred shortly after meals. I took imodium (immodium) 3days into the diarrhea. By Day 4 ie 12/29/2007--there was no diarrhea, just nausea and swollen nail fold. Since I was out of state, I went to the ER to be checked out--where I was given fluids, cephalexin for my swollen nail and famotidine for the nausea.

By 12/31/07 I felt better and had alcohol to ring in the New year at a party. My diarrhea came back the next day. I was again nauseated and flew back for school on the 2nd of Jan. I saw my local doc for a follow up that same day--she asked that I stop taking the  antibiotics (after looking at the swelling which had subsided ) and the famotidine.  She did  a stool occult and reported no blood + well formed stool in my rectum. Also she said the white nail spot was nothing to be concerned about.

I was due for a physical a week later ie the 9thof Jan: by then my stools were back to normal and had been pretty normal since the 2nd. However I had picked up a cough--which was productive. My doc gave me robutussin+codeine and the coughs became less and no longer productive.  My blood work was normal except my neutrophils were 45.1% (normal range 50-70%) and my lymphocytes were 46.9% (normal 18-42%).  Could this be due to the antibiotics or HIV?

On the 13th and 14th of Jan I had night sweats. I called my doc and she sent me to have a chest X ray--which showed no abnormalities. Today I woke up with pain along the lower right side of my neck. Should I be worried enough to take the HIV test? If not what could this be?

ps: No lunula changes and white spot is growing out and dimming.

[mechfab]

You can never go by symptoms. You should test for HIV and STD's. Talk with your partner about sex and your sexual histories plus tell your doctor about you concerns.