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Is this a sign of hiv
I know u can't diagnose a rash online but please listen to my story tell me your honest opinion if I should be worried this is an hiv rash.
Every day is a constant struggle with wondering if I am gonna catch hiv in so many irrational ways. Recently my hiv fears and phobias along with my obsessive compulsive disorder has been over the top stressful depressing and awful. I have got so many hiv tests and I'm not even at risk except for the ocd thoughts that someone could have raped me or I had sex without me knowing while I was at a wedding and had a bit too much to drink to the point where I was fine to walk and stuff but just don't remember random conversations with people but I'm so scared that what if I went to the bathroom and was raped or i had sex and just don't know it. My other obsession is getting blood work the other day to take yet another hiv test and I'm obsessed that because the person drawing my blood knows I'm deathly afraid of hiv that maybe she gave it to me on purpose perhaps through a dirty needle etc. I'm now about a couple weeks later starting thus morning have a small patch of red bumps resembles a rash on my right lower back in which I am stressed out thinking this is an hiv rash. Great so now I have to wait 3 months yet again to test? Gotta go back to the doctor and annoy her once again with my concerns. I'm so stressed out I don't want to hear have I seemed help for my condition yes I have. The thing is u want to know if my thoughts sound ridiculous and of course I don't have hiv. What is this rash then? I'm so depressed anyone out there to tell me truthfully if this sounds like I should be concerned?
Every day is a constant struggle with wondering if I am gonna catch hiv in so many irrational ways. Recently my hiv fears and phobias along with my obsessive compulsive disorder has been over the top stressful depressing and awful. I have got so many hiv tests and I'm not even at risk except for the ocd thoughts that someone could have raped me or I had sex without me knowing while I was at a wedding and had a bit too much to drink to the point where I was fine to walk and stuff but just don't remember random conversations with people but I'm so scared that what if I went to the bathroom and was raped or i had sex and just don't know it. My other obsession is getting blood work the other day to take yet another hiv test and I'm obsessed that because the person drawing my blood knows I'm deathly afraid of hiv that maybe she gave it to me on purpose perhaps through a dirty needle etc. I'm now about a couple weeks later starting thus morning have a small patch of red bumps resembles a rash on my right lower back in which I am stressed out thinking this is an hiv rash. Great so now I have to wait 3 months yet again to test? Gotta go back to the doctor and annoy her once again with my concerns. I'm so stressed out I don't want to hear have I seemed help for my condition yes I have. The thing is u want to know if my thoughts sound ridiculous and of course I don't have hiv. What is this rash then? I'm so depressed anyone out there to tell me truthfully if this sounds like I should be concerned?
Ignore and move on.
Chip makes a very valid point below, HIV Negative people also get rashes too..
Even if you had been having sex with a HIV+ person for three years, your test result would still be conclusive!
You do not need to worry and can safely move in from this now, no need to retest or worry any further.
Best Wishes
James
Chip makes a very valid point below, HIV Negative people also get rashes too..
Even if you had been having sex with a HIV+ person for three years, your test result would still be conclusive!
You do not need to worry and can safely move in from this now, no need to retest or worry any further.
Best Wishes
James
This is an HIV forum, and you do not have an HIV concern, you never had a risk.
You really need to seek professional help, and soon, as you're getting to the point of crisis mode with out of control anxiety and irrational thoughts.
You really need to seek professional help, and soon, as you're getting to the point of crisis mode with out of control anxiety and irrational thoughts.
One last thing though James
U really don't think I should worry or be concerned with a rash? It doesn't bother me other than bothering my mind thinking it's an hiv rash. U don't think it's weird a rash in a small patch formed on my back. Or that I had a headache and 97.5 temp? Should I just ignore it and move on
U really don't think I should worry or be concerned with a rash? It doesn't bother me other than bothering my mind thinking it's an hiv rash. U don't think it's weird a rash in a small patch formed on my back. Or that I had a headache and 97.5 temp? Should I just ignore it and move on
Modern tests are conclusive at six weeks with the very latest being conclusive at 4 weeks .
There is no 1% failure rate, modern tests look for the virus and antibodies, there is NO DOUBT at all that you are HIV NEGATIVE
You are just worried that you may have done something that you did not!
HIV is a very fragile virus and actually hard to transmit... You did not catch it from your night in the hotel nor from the test itself, you are clearly HIV NEGATIVE.
I would suggest you now move on from this, you are fine and do not need to waste another second of your life worrying about it.
Best Wishes
James
There is no 1% failure rate, modern tests look for the virus and antibodies, there is NO DOUBT at all that you are HIV NEGATIVE
You are just worried that you may have done something that you did not!
HIV is a very fragile virus and actually hard to transmit... You did not catch it from your night in the hotel nor from the test itself, you are clearly HIV NEGATIVE.
I would suggest you now move on from this, you are fine and do not need to waste another second of your life worrying about it.
Best Wishes
James
Well if the 12 week test is conclusive I'm wondering if it's really conclusive or am I that 1% where it's like oops it wasn't conclusive. I would never cheat on my boyfriend it's just that I'm afraid drinking and not remembering stuff how do u know what happened if u can't remember. Do u truly believe nothing happened and I'm just obsessing over what if it did happen? My boyfriend knows all about this entire story. He tells me I'm fine stop worrying get but I can't move on from it because at my 12 week test which was negative I freaked out immediately when I was at home because I was afraid the lady did something to me and now I have hiv. After embarrassing myself and talking to the doctor and lab supervisor who assured me there is nothing to worry about I finally thought I could move on but that was 2 days ago and this morning I saw an itchy red bumps rash on my lower back. I associate rashes with hiv and since I've been worried about it what are the odds of a rash appearing?? Plus I read online that a rash like the one I see because I saw pictures online can appear after exposure. That freaks me out and I can't live my life feeling thus scared.
HIV really is not a concern for you though, I like its hard but you don't nerd to worry.
What do you think us stoping you from moving on from this?
Rest assured, everything will be okay!
James
What do you think us stoping you from moving on from this?
Rest assured, everything will be okay!
James
I just want to know why the rash out of nowhere it's scaring me. I have no control over how I feel. I'm walking around thinking I have hiv and it feels awful. You will never understand the fear of a disease and phobia i have unless u have one yourself
I did post on there. James seems to be helping me better than what I get over there. The reason is I've tried therapy cbt medicine everything it's hopeless. I agree with u I won't argue that I am out of control :( I'm anxious all the time and so sad and depressed. I don't want hiv ever. I just want to be happy again.
All of that "what iffing", which is majority of your post, is CLASSIC OCD symptoms. You have zero HIV concern but you have a very real and very serious OCD problem which has become an obsession. Go post on the OCD board and get a mental health expert to help you because you're out of control and in dire need of therapy. Once you start asking that many What If questions in a row, it's time to get professional help.
Hi.
Symptoms - irrelevant, - you have tested NEGATIVE at 3 months even older tests are conclusive at this point, if not before.
Your phone, - someone is messing around with you so change your number!!
The wedding - you were probably just drunk and had a fun night - forget about it and move on.
No way on earth do you have HIV from the above, change your number tomorrow and forget about the hotel.
All three issues dealt with - now move on with your life and stop over thinking things :)
Best Wishes
Jame
Symptoms - irrelevant, - you have tested NEGATIVE at 3 months even older tests are conclusive at this point, if not before.
Your phone, - someone is messing around with you so change your number!!
The wedding - you were probably just drunk and had a fun night - forget about it and move on.
No way on earth do you have HIV from the above, change your number tomorrow and forget about the hotel.
All three issues dealt with - now move on with your life and stop over thinking things :)
Best Wishes
Jame
Thanks for talking for to me about this. Do u think my test was a modern 4th generation duo test? Cam I tell u something else. Since the wedding I keep getting good this weird number calling me I keep missing the call but call back and say why are u calling I have no idea who this is. They barely speak english. They say I'm not calling u and I say yes you have called me 1x a month for the past 3 months. Once they left a message of just breathing in the background. I recently called and was like stop calling my number!! I then thought I got my point across and felt it was a mistake and thought maybe they really do not realize they are calling but once again. Last week they called again and I missed it. I'm wondering if it's someone from the wedding I could have given my number to and didn't know because I was drinking. Mind u I was with my boyfriend who I would never cheat on its just that what if I was so drunk I and something happened to me whole on my way to bathroom as this was outdoors. What if I was oblivious and didn't realize anything. What if this person who is calling is trying to tell me he has hiv and is from the wedding? I'm thinking the wedding thoughts can't possibly have happened but isn't the phone calls weird? I was so stressed out because I didn't remember random small things like conversations with people etc. I'm not that kind of girl I would never cheat on my boyfriend but I was worried what if something happened I'm not aware of and now I have hiv? So I tested 3 months (12 weeks) after as I was told it's conclusive. But is it really? . So that test was 3 weeks ago. I freak out about the person drawing my blood as I go home and was stressed she contaminated me by using a used needle or perhaps touching her cut and then wiping it on mine and I didn't notice. I was almost over those thoughts but wake up and see a patch on my lower back of red dots. I have not used anything goes new and am thinking oh no I have hiv! I had a headache thus morning and last night. Are these symptoms associated? I also oddly have a temp of 97.5 what's going on??
Hi there.
Well you have tested to three months which, with modern 4th Generation Duo tests is two months later than required.
If you are thinking that professional people keep stashes of HIV blood at clinics to inject into people then do not, they do not do this !!
You have totally and conclusively tested to cover the exposure that you "probably did no even have"...
Your rash in so insignificant it is untrue, a rash alone does not even appear as a symptom of HIV...
You are 110% HIIV NEGATIVE, no iffs or buts, - no need to retest, if you are concerned about the rash then see your DR who will prescribe something simple for it I am sure.
Best Wishes
James
Well you have tested to three months which, with modern 4th Generation Duo tests is two months later than required.
If you are thinking that professional people keep stashes of HIV blood at clinics to inject into people then do not, they do not do this !!
You have totally and conclusively tested to cover the exposure that you "probably did no even have"...
Your rash in so insignificant it is untrue, a rash alone does not even appear as a symptom of HIV...
You are 110% HIIV NEGATIVE, no iffs or buts, - no need to retest, if you are concerned about the rash then see your DR who will prescribe something simple for it I am sure.
Best Wishes
James
James i dont believe i have a risk I'm worried that someone could have done something to me while I was at a wedding drinking. I tested 3 months after the wedding as I was stressed about that thought. It was negative. That test was 3 weeks ago. Now the rash. So now I'm thinking that 3 months was not enough time to wait till after the wedding I went to. Or the person drawing my blood who knew I'm afraid of hiv intentionally did something while drawing my blood. I think that it's weird 3 weeks later now a small patch of rash
Hi there.
Well firstly, you have stated above you have had no risk of HIV so this is just a worry more so than a reality.
With the above, I would suggest that you seek help (as I did myself three years ago) for the anxiety and irrational fears you are facing.
Ignore your rash, a rash alone is not a symptom and symptoms NEVER diagnose HIV.
It would be worth posting a question in the OCD forum to get some clear direction on where to go to help your fears, - you will come through this okay you really will.
Best Wishes
James
Well firstly, you have stated above you have had no risk of HIV so this is just a worry more so than a reality.
With the above, I would suggest that you seek help (as I did myself three years ago) for the anxiety and irrational fears you are facing.
Ignore your rash, a rash alone is not a symptom and symptoms NEVER diagnose HIV.
It would be worth posting a question in the OCD forum to get some clear direction on where to go to help your fears, - you will come through this okay you really will.
Best Wishes
James
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