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High risk activity, Symptoms, and Obsessive worrying....
Hi!
I'll try to keep this short.
I had a high risk exposure and was tested for HIV 4 weeks and 5 days later. Test was negative. It has now been 11 weeks later since the exposure.
Here are the symptoms I am having now:
Pulling sensation behind both ears
Swelling throughout the neck
loss of appetite
upset stomach
Itchy feeling in my throat and under my tongue
Under my tongue is yellowish
To add to all of this, I cannot stop googling ARS, Seroconversion symptoms, HIV testing etc...
Has anyone else been though this? Would my initial HIV test be accurate enough to move on? How do I stop the constant researching?
I'll try to keep this short.
I had a high risk exposure and was tested for HIV 4 weeks and 5 days later. Test was negative. It has now been 11 weeks later since the exposure.
Here are the symptoms I am having now:
Pulling sensation behind both ears
Swelling throughout the neck
loss of appetite
upset stomach
Itchy feeling in my throat and under my tongue
Under my tongue is yellowish
To add to all of this, I cannot stop googling ARS, Seroconversion symptoms, HIV testing etc...
Has anyone else been though this? Would my initial HIV test be accurate enough to move on? How do I stop the constant researching?
Best Answer
Why don,t you write a journal about it where more people will see your message and take notice.
Please dont do it. You will realize the hard way what you had and how being selfish for the moment takes it all away. I honestly feel like I am dying inside, and I cant get over it. God, no God, whatever your belief....guilt is there and it rips you apart. If only I could have made the other decision. I want to end it, but then what good would that do? Put this hell onto those who loved me that I betrayed? So, I have accepted to live with it, and I have to deal with it. IT IS NOT WORTH IT!!! So now I am here to share what I am going, for whatever good that does....
Well said.I think if most people realized the stress and anxiety that these encounters cause to the individual they would think twice before they engaged in it.It,s just not worth the pain and the waiting.You can advise people not to make the same mistakes again but some people never learn.
I am so over all of this worrying, all of this anxiety. If anyone ever decides to be unfaithful,and is curious about "things", never do it. It is not worth it. All I can say is that is like a living hell, God's way of punishing us.
Wait 1 more week and test again and that result will be conclusive.ARS symptoms don,t appear after 11 weeks.
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