Tingling

How common is tingling in hands and feet in primary HIV infection. In the last few days I have began having my hands and feet tingle on and off almost like they are asleep. It seems to be getting worse.

Is this soemthing that is common in the early stages of HIV?

[peekawho]

No.  Late stages, perhaps.  Not early.

Tingling of the hands and feet is a very common anxiety symptom.  Or the symptom of perhaps a hundred other things.  

[Possible??]

It seems unlikely that anxiety could cause my hands and feet to keep falling asleep throughout the day.

I do not feel overly anxious, but obviously am very terrified of what I have possibly done to my family.

Everyone tells me I had no risk from a girl spitting the contents in her mouth (alcohol, obviously saliva and blood is what I am worried about) directly into my mouth. I have read many articles saying that being intoxicated and the fact there was alcohol involved could make it easier for the virus to enter your bloodstream through the mouth and throat.

Everone says it is no risk, but all of these weird things keep happenning to me and now my wife also had some symptoms of the flu and sore throat.

It just seems like to many things point to HIV that it can be the only answer. I am terrified.

[Teak]

The only reason things point to HIV to you, because you won't go see what is causing your problems. You didn't have a risk.

[Possible??]

Teak,

I have heard everyone loud and clear that I did not have a risk, but nobody has been able to provide me with any evidence as to why possible blood exposure in the mouth is not a risk. In addition, nobody has been able to prove that ARS cannot come on as fast as 3-4 days. Maybe my initial symptoms that occurred 3 days after event (bumps on lips and rash on scrotum) were just the initial reaction to the virus and the things that have now been happenning are the ARS symptoms and more in line with the ARS timeframe.

I am in no way trying to frustrate you and everyone else on this forum, your words do help. It's just nobody has been able to support their "No Risk" assessment.

[Teak]

You know that isn't true. I gave you a URL to go read from the CDC and again you ignored it. We can't make you believe anythng, so take yourself to a doctor. Make sure you give him all the details that you have given us. I doubt that you will be your doctor.

[peekawho]

There is absolutely no reasoning with you.  If a bit of blood in the mouth were a viable, known way to transmit HIV, then it would occur with some frequency.  It has not been known to occur.  

Men have gone down on women on their periods.  They don't get HIV that way, either.  Obviously, there is more blood involved that way, than by what you are obsessing about.

The odds are overwhelming that the girl didn't have HIV to begin with.  It is NOT A COMMON disease, and even less so in women.  Proven disease by oral to oral exposure has never been reported, to my knowledge.  

You are, as Teak said, obsessing about HIV to the exclusion of all else.  Yes, anxiety can cause numbness and tingling of the hands and feet.  Absolutely it can.  So can a myriad of other things.

If you feel you have numbness and tingling of your hands and feet that is getting worse, for GODS SAKE GO SEE YOUR DOCTOR.  There are a couple of serious diseases that may present that way.  NOT HIV, though.  I worked with a girl once who had numbness and tingling in her feet, and she put off going to the doctor for a long time.  It turned out she had a spinal tumor, and if she had gone earlier, she wouldn't have wound up in such bad shape.  I'm not saying this is what you have...its only an example.  GO TO THE DOCTOR.  

While you are wasting time obsessing about something that is not possible, something else might be getting worse.  A doctor may examine you and find nothing wrong, and then you could be more sure that it is only anxiety and "terror" (your description, not mine) that is responsible.  

[Teak]

[Teak]

That question has been answered here repeatedly and the answer is no.

[Possible??]

Teak,

I am a little confused too what question you are referring to when you said "That question has been answered here repeatedly and the answer is no." Can you please clarify.

Thanks

[Teak]

What was the question you asked in starting this thread.